It's Thursday in New York City, where low-turnout elections typically don't favor insurgent candidates courting younger voters.
But this week's congressional primaries, where about one in six registered Democrats showed up, was different.
"The [Democratic Socialists of America] has managed to turn that around and activate a whole group of young, well-educated people who care about things like childcare," said CUNY professor John Mollenkopf.
Will Mayor Mamdani get the rent freeze that he pledged on the campaign trail? Here's what to know ahead of today's vote by the Rent Guidelines Board, which is considering its first-ever two-year rent freeze for stabilized apartments.
Frank Carone, one of former Mayor Eric Adams' oldest and closest allies, pleaded not guilty yesterday to federal corruption charges after being accused of taking roughly $120,000 in bribes in exchange for helping a hotel owner secure a migrant shelter contract.
In September 2023, Adams warned that the migrant crisis would “destroy New York City.” But according to state and federal prosecutors, the migrant influx turned into an opportunity for a number of Adams allies to reap a windfall.
The NYPD and federal authorities yesterday searched the homes of current and former high-ranking police officials as part of a bribery investigation.
Jersey City Mayor James Solomon has postponed a vote on a temporary 20% property tax increase until July 1, but warned that the city needs a way to close a $255 million budget deficit.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking to lower the temperature in a dispute between the MTA and Amtrak over the federal government’s push to rebuild Penn Station.
Earlier this week, MTA Chair Janno Lieber dismissed an offer by Amtrak to become a “fully involved” partner in the Trump administration’s reconstruction of Penn Station, calling the federal government’s oversight of the project "bizarre."
A federal judge in Manhattan has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from using grand jury subpoenas to seek sensitive health records of patients who received gender-affirming care at NYU Langone, Mount Sinai and other New York City hospitals as minors.
MTA Chair Janno Lieber told upset Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers that he sympathizes with their complaints about all the Museum of Sex ads on city buses, but he can't do much about it because of the First Amendment.
Researchers at Rutgers have discovered that New York City mice have built immunity to household poisons, while rats have figured out how to escape from traps.
Tuesday’s democratic socialist victories, led by Mayor Mamdani and young Democrats hungry for change, unnerved some Black and Latino New Yorkers who say gentrification threatens to leave them politically and literally homeless.
Home health care workers alleged that when the company PPL took over operations of the publicly funded program, they received paychecks that were late or inaccurate, or didn’t get paid at all.
