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(January 19, 2022) — Sources close to State Senator Andrew Lanza, the longest-serving Republican in the chamber, say that he is preparing to endorse a plan being privately advanced by Governor Kathy Hochul to make Staten Island a stand-alone municipality,

(January 18, 2022) — Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Conference, has been quietly reaching out to her colleagues to commiserate over their shared frustrations with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.  During those conversations, Warren has been

(January 15, 2022) — Governor Kathy Hochul is interested in appointing a civic commission of landscape architects, theologians, and ethicists to reimagine urban cemeteries and to make recommendations on how to repurpose some of New York City’s largest burial grounds

(January 11, 2022) — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to relocate Madison Square Garden to a permanent new home on the site of Dewitt Clinton Park, a 5.8 acre city park in a trendy section of Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson

(December 26, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is looking to pitch Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary on locating the discount European carrier’s North American headquarters at Long Island’s MacArthur International Airport.  The airline is ranked among the busiest in Europe and

(December 26, 2021) — In a new spin on former Mayor Rudy Guiliani‘s ‘Broken Windows‘ theory, Governor Kathy Hochul is creating a new metric for government performance: no more ‘dingy-looking’ bridges. In her first State of the State speech later

Officials in the administration of Governor Kathy Hochul have signaled to longtime Niagara Frontier Transporation Authority (NFTA) Executive Director Kimberly Minkel that she should begin planning a relocation of the agency’s headquarters to new office space, either in downtown Buffalo

(December 25, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is open to creating a second economic development corporation in Buffalo that will be tasked with waterfront transformation, in order to complement and accelerate the type of work that is being done by

(December 23, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to task the New York Power Authority (NYPA) with the construction of several major clean energy production projects in an effort to accelerate the State’s transition to a “completely clean energy

(DECEMBER 19, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a new set of intergovernmental transfer payments that are designed to encourage the merger and consolidation of local municipal governments — and she plans to announce the program in her State

Sources say that Governor Kathy Hochul agrees with the Seneca Nation‘s interpretation of a 2002 gaming compact that sold the Tribe gaming exclusivity rights in Western New York west of State Route 14 in exchange for a share of top-line

Governor Kathy Hochul plans to speak with Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos in the coming weeks to explore whether or not talks can be revived to locate a major global headquarters in New York City — a since defunct proposal that

Governor Kathy Hochul wants New York City to more aggressively reclaim its waterfront for public park space — and she thinks that the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn is precisely the place to start. Hochul wants to demolish more than

Incoming Governor Kathy Hochul will direct the Office of General Services to begin looking for a “star architect” to design a new glass dome and atrium at the State Capitol, sources familiar with her thinking tell The Chronicle.  Built in 1867,

While it’s not a pressing issue to her personally, sources say that incoming Governor Kathy Hochul is open to state legislation that would make Staten Island a stand-alone municipality.  That would allow the citizens of Staten Island to elect a

Incoming Governor Kathy Hochul plans to invest heavily in the Metropolitan Transit Authority, including billions to modernize aging track and signal systems, to purchase new trains, to construct new subway and elevated rail lines, and to rebuild the system’s busiest

Upon taking office on August 24th, Governor Kathy Hochul is expected to set up an Executive Chamber office inside the Mahoney State Office Building on Niagara Square at Court Street, which she will use when working from Buffalo. Her advisors

Sources inside the Executive Chamber are worried that Governor Andrew Cuomo has retained the assistance of a real estate leasing agent based in the Italian city of Pompeii, near his paternal grandparents’ hometown of Tramonti, an idyllic village set atop