Jersey City has requested a record-breaking $150 million in state aid from Trenton to help plug its quarter-billion-dollar budget deficit as it faces a historic “full-blown financial crisis,” ...

Mayor Ryan's pause on demolitions gives hope for revitalizing abandoned homes in Buffalo. Could this change the city's future?

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New York City Mayor Mamdani is taking the first steps toward overhauling how the city responds to mental health-related 911 calls, but it's a pared down version of his campaign promise to create a ...

Stay up to date with live coverage of New York politics Thursday — as Empire State Democrats’ attempts to gerrymander the Big ...

Activists who have been standing with the man who was shot in the Bronx by an off-duty police officer say he is now brain-dead. They are calling out the mayor specifically for not ...

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The new Office of Community Safety will develop prevention strategies for gun violence, domestic and gender-based violence, and hate crimes.

They’re off the charts! Charter schools make up more than half of the top 100 performing public schools in New York City based on results of state math and English exams, a new analysis found. Their ...

New mayoral body is less expansive than mayor's campaign pledge to set up an agency with a $1.1 billion budget, will ...

THE UNOFFICIAL RESULTS OF THE SARANAC LAKE VILLAGE ELECTION ARE NOW IN. EARLY RESULTS SHOW KELLY BRUNETTE WINNING THE MAYOR'S RACE... WITH 775 VOTES. SHE BEAT OUT JAMES WILLIAMS... WHO GOT 476 VOTES.

Mamdani chooses uber-capitalists Biggie, Nas and Jay-Z among his five favorite rappers. Is it a pivot to center?