CITYWIDE — COUNCILMEMBER LINCOLN RESTLER on Thursday introduced legislation to restore year-round outdoor dining and simplify the city’s cumbersome permit process. The bill aims to revive the pandemic ...
They couldn’t defeat Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and they couldn’t beat his hand-picked candidate for City Council, Steve Levin, so now a group of Democratic insurgents in ...
BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn is supporting Brooklyn Democratic Party secretary Sabrina Gates’ last-minute challenge against incumbent City Council Member ...
A progressive City Council member pushed a bill on Thursday to create a controversial “Department of Community Safety” pushed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani that would reshape the way the city responds ...
Marcia Kramer joined CBS News New York in 1990 as an investigative and political reporter. Prior to CBS2, she was the City Hall bureau chief at the New York Daily News. When the New York City Council ...
The Adams administration unloaded on a Brooklyn lawmaker who championed the closure of Rikers Island then complained about the construction of a new borough-based jail in his own district. City ...
Councilman Lincoln Restler is calling for the city to crack down on illegally parked cars in Downtown Brooklyn, some of them with government placards or phony ones. A study put out by his office found ...
A progressive City Council member pushed a bill on Thursday to create a controversial “Department of Community Safety” pushed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani that would reshape the way the city responds ...