NEW YORK — New York City will direct more than 18,000 of its municipal workers to use 311 to give social service workers real-time information to help them steer the almost 4,000 people who live on the streets into shelters.
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio, not far removed from his own failed presidential bid, said Monday that there was “no way in the world” that his predecessor in City Hall, Michael Bloomberg, deserved the Democratic nomination for president.
NEW YORK — The boxing ring can be a weary, but trustworthy, motif for the underdog candidate, a place where would-be mayors and governors put on the gloves to show how they would fight for constituents.
NEW YORK — They said they have been habitually mistreated and intimidated and have few meaningful ways to make their complaints heard without fear of reprisal.
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, who entered the Democratic presidential race on the premise that his brand of progressive urban leadership could appeal on a national scale, said on Friday that he was ending his candidacy.
NEW YORK — Nearly two years ago, the New York City Council celebrated when it passed a far-reaching ban on conversion therapy, a discredited practice to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
NEW YORK — After the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, thousands of uniformed and civilian city employees assisted police and firefighters with the rescue and recovery efforts.
NEW YORK — The words “Heil Hitler” and “gas chamber” were scrawled on walls at the Silver Gull in Queens, one of the city’s last beach clubs. A rabbi walking through a park in Brooklyn was punched in the face and bashed with a rock. A gay pride flag outside a Harlem bar was set on fire.
NEW YORK — The political ad began with images of Michael Cohen and Harvey Weinstein, and the notion that as long as you had money and influence, you could “do whatever you want in the city.”
NEW YORK — Telecommunications firms and mobile-based apps make billions of dollars each year by selling customer location data to marketers and other businesses, offering a vast window into the whereabouts of cellphone and app users, often without their knowledge.
NEW YORK — Telecommunications firms and mobile-based apps make billions of dollars per year by selling customer location data to marketers and other businesses, offering a vast window into the whereabouts of cellphone and app users, often without their knowledge.
Torres, who is the first openly gay person to hold elected office in the borough, noted that not one of the 10 was black or Latino. He now hopes to be the first.
That ruling is now the basis of two lawsuits filed against Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, accusing her of blocking people because of their opposing political stances.
