New York City

BAYSIDE, NY  — Northeast Queens elected officials announced today that they are calling on Chancellor Richard A. Carranza to hold a public meeting on school safety. This demand follows a January 16th Department of Education Town Hall meeting in District

BAYSIDE, NY – Today, northeast Queens elected officials announced that the MTA has agreed to hold additional workshops to gather input from the community about the recently announced Queens Bus Network Redesign Draft Plan. The elected officials will also continue

 Fidelman & Co., a management consulting firm specializing in business advisory and management & financial consulting, announced today that it is rebranding from AI Capital Advisors and expanding its services, opening two new offices and growing its team to more

Chairman Langworthy taps popular New York City Councilman Joe Borelli to help spread the NYGOP’s messaging in the critical 2020 election cycle NEW YORK, NY — New York Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy has appointed New York City Council Minority

The 471 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) officers and firefighters who retired in calendar year 2018 are eligible for average pensions of $129,259, according to data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s transparency website. According to the Empire Center’s analysis,

Corrections Department employees qualified for average pensions of nearly $70,000, the highest average benefit for any agency grouping among the 7,990 New York City Employee Retirement System (NYCERS) members collecting their first full year’s worth of pension benefits in 2018,

BY MICAH MORRISON New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s withdrawal from the presidential race last week is a lost opportunity. A successful de Blasio effort in the Democratic primaries—his was anything but—could have sparked a necessary national debate over signs of

In a major Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) case, a state Supreme Court justice in Manhattan today ruled that the names of retired New York City police officers receiving public pensions must be released to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Over

BY HOWARD HUSCOK New York’s new rent-regulation law makes dramatic changes to housing rules — limiting rent increases after owners make major improvements and even after units become vacant and the rents have not been raised for years. The law will likely

Plan will make market rents more affordable, introduce a Renters’ Tax Credit Gubernatorial contender Joel Giambra, the former two-term Erie County Executive,  is pledging to end New York City’s decades-long housing crisis – promising to make the City more affordable

The investment banker Lynn Tilton and her firm, Patriarch Partners, found two Denver federal appeals court judges who agree with the argument that it is unconstitutional for the Securities and Exchange Commission to try cases before administrative law judges. Known as the

BY JAMES COVERT Oscar Health Insurance just opened its first clinic in Brooklyn — and the place looks just as slick as the startup’s hipster-friendly app. Patients who enter the new “Oscar Center” won’t find administrators pushing papers behind a

Democrats in the City Council voted to reaffirm the city’s undocumented-friendly status, then rallied outside Trump Tower. via Council Votes to Keep NYC a Sanctuary City — Observer

A former staffer to a Brooklyn city councilman filed a $10 million discrimination suit against the veteran politician Tuesday saying he humiliated the ex-aide over a symptom of his Asperger’s Syndrome — involuntary twitches. Michael Bistreich claims that Councilman Vincent

Paul Massey, the president of Cushman & Wakefield‘s New York investment sales and a Republican candidate for mayor, made his case to Real Estate Board of New York members, painting the city as a failing place and taking personal shots

A Manhattan plastic surgeon who is a pal of former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is using his police parking placard to leave his Mercedes-Benz SUV in front of fire hydrants on his E. 57th Street block, sources told The Post.

An ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday opened up a blistering attack on Democrats in the state Senate and the Working Families Party several days after left-leaning groups and the mainline conference’s leadership called on the governor to unify

The activist and former firefighter who filed a citizen’s official misconduct complaint against Gov. Chris Christie over the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal plans to run for New Jersey governor in 2017. William Brennan made the surprise announcement Monday as