A voter casts his ballot at an early voting site in Queens, New York City, the United States, on Oct. 27, 2024. New York City saw a big turnout in early voting for the 2024 general election, following the general trend. By the time polls were closed on Sunday, a total of 257,860...
What are you going to do for a “second act” in the New York City Council? Gale Brewer: Number one, I hope that we’ve been a very accessible borough presidency in the following ways. It’s not – you know the board president has four charter-mandated, people don’t know that, ...
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION…This flimsy Federal Hall replica erected in Bryant Park in 1932 symbolized some of the problems that beset New York City in one of the worst years of the Depression. Under Mayor Jimmy Walker, the committee in charge of the replica was filled with corrupt Tammany cronies ...
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene maintains birth and death certificates for the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Kings, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island). Only the person themself or the parent of the person on the birth certificate is eligible to obtai...
Big New York3 days ago016 mins Mayor Eric Adams, joined by top city officials, has announced the next phase of the 388 Hudson Street development, a key initiative under his “Manhattan Plan” to create 100,000 new homes over the next decade. The project will convert an underutilized site...
Larry Scott Blackmon is the CEO of The Blackmon Organization, a government relations consulting firm. He also serves as chair of the board of the BBB Serving Metropolitan New York, as president of the New York Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha and on the board of 100...
This is the text of a talk I gave at New York City DSA’s night school, Socialists of NYC series, May 14, 2024 As the 1960s were turning into the 1970s, New York City was coming off a long economic boom. Sure, we’d lost 151,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and the 1969 pe...
The CBS New York Book Club has a new memoir about a trailblazer in the Radio City Rockettes. For its first 63 years, there had never been a Rockette of color. In 1987, that changed with Jennifer Jones. She tells her story in “Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the Fi...
Teamsters says workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday morning in an effort by the union to pressure the e-commerce giant for a labor agreement during a key shopping period. People have begun picketing in some locations, including onein the New York City borough of Queens. ...
Donovan, who won the Republican primary in the district, in November. Though he faces an uphill battle in New York City’s lone Republican congressional district, the seat is considered competitive by The Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball and Inside Elections with Nathan...