A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that both former Mayor Eric Adams and current Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke the law by not releasing racial equity plans according to city charter-mandated deadlines.
The city’s Department of Correction has blown past a new deadline to give Rikers Island detainees a digital platform to review evidence in their cases.
Despite winning community support, the Mamdani administration may have to delay its W.
Tenants in buildings owned by one of New York’s most notorious landlords have suffered for years.
Brooklyn Democratic leaders voted behind closed doors Tuesday night to dramatically expand the party body that will choose its next chair — reshaping a leadership fight in which reformers say they had already secured a…
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The new rules require housing court judges to accelerate cases when there is an immediate threat to tenant health and safety, the mayor said.
The Brooklyn Democrats’ escalating leadership war landed in court Monday, where a reform-aligned challenger whose allies say he has the votes to become the county party’s next leader sought to block sitting Chair…
A Manhattan federal judge ruled the Trump administration was not allowed to implement a blanket ban on issuing visas to people from 75 countries, striking down a policy that left thousands of people from 40% of the…
A recently formed association of ethnic grocery store owners and business groups sued the city Monday to block the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery store plan.
Amid a citywide drop in crime, NYCHA developments recorded the fewest murders, shootings, and robberies during the first seven months of the year, the lowest on record, according to recent data from the NYPD.
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NEW YORK – Today, the Mamdani Administration filed a lawsuit against the RESPECT Check Act, which would require the City to issue workforce stabilization payments totaling up to $10,000 to paraprofessionals employed by…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration sued the New York City Council on Wednesday over its newly enacted bill to pay paraprofessionals one-time $10,000 payments, saying it both runs afoul of a state law that restricts…
Five days after Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was confident his officials could juggle a City Council hearing with an ongoing lawsuit over the pied-à-terre tax rollout, his administration declined to show up Tuesday,…
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A federal judge has allowed the lawsuit of a prominent NYPD critic who alleges police officials leaked details of her sexual assault to move forward, bucking the city’s attempts to have the case tossed.
State facilities detain prisoners suspected of ingesting contraband in “special watch” cells for days or weeks.
But the DA won't say who the employee is.
President Donald Trump backed fellow Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in his race against Gov.
NYPD cops are barely writing any bus lane tickets — maybe that should change.
New York City landlords are challenging city housing discrimination laws after a State Supreme Court ruled that a requirement for Section 8 housing vouchers was unconstitutional.
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The maintenance is high but this estate-condition two-bedroom has charming original 1920s features, an interesting history, and "oblique river views," as the listing puts it.
The suit seeking to tie up the city’s pied-à-terre tax in the courts is “weak” and likely to be ineffective in accomplishing any significant delay in the tax’s rollout, legal experts and economists told amNewYork Law.
Nearly six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a raft of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, few New York City small businesses have benefited from tariff refunds, even as they struggle under new import levies.
A new report calls on the city to crack down on companies who endlessly reschedule trial hearings to avoid anti-idling fines.
The Staten Island judge who issued a temporary order blocking parts of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax rollout appears on the sprawling property roll at the center of the lawsuit himself, an amNewYork review of…
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Limited food access and package bans in New York prisons are leading to poor health.