Legislation to ban horse carriages nears majority support
Hold your horses: Council Members Oswald Feliz, Lynn Schulman and Kamillah Hanks have signed on as co-sponsors and Rita Joseph is poised to follow.
What’s NOT in the New York City budget?
From extra cops to 1% for parks, $126 billion and still not everything gets funded.
Opinion: Why I voted no on the $126 billion budget
New York City Council Member Althea Stevens was the only Democrat to vote against the budget Tuesday.
Harlem public defenders threaten strike
The union’s contract with Neighborhood Defender Service – Darializa Avila Chevalier’s unit – expires on Wednesday.
Mamdani, Menin shake on $126B NYC budget
After a whirlwind weekend of last-minute haggling.
The World Cup is in New Jersey, so the city fixed the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane
But DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said it’s all to make New York better even after the tourists leave.
Here’s what the City Council is pushing for in the NYC budget
Mamdani finds himself on the receiving end of lawmaker demands to expand spending on parks, consumer protection, rental vouchers and more.
It was a pretty good year for regulating AI in New York
State lawmakers passed a variety of artificial intelligence guidelines before the end of the legislative session.
The City Council’s trying again to ban horse carriages
Animal welfare advocates rallied to support the latest legislation after over a decade of failed attempts to end the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.
Talk of open primaries dominates first COGE hearing
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first Charter Revision Commission meeting was haunted by Eric Adams’ last commission