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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday ignored his past condemnations of Democratic obstruction, releasing a three-minute campaign kickoff video for his 2020 re-election bid, centering on his successful 293 day blockade of Judge M...

With the L train un-shutdown set to un-commence next week, transit reporters expected a significant download of information at today's MTA board hearing (especially as this was the first meeting for newly-appointed MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye). But...

Rent regulations are considered a birthright by New Yorkers, and increasingly popular in Albany as well, where a slew of new bills are considering expanding tenant protections. Mainstream economic theorists, though, have long belittled such laws, arg...

A huge four-alarm fire ripped through businesses in Marine Park, Brooklyn this morning, and firefighters are still at the scene trying to get the blaze under control. [Update: The five-alarm fire was under control by 10:30 a.m. More details below.] [...

New York City taxpayers are stuck with a $230 million bill for the thousands of lawsuits against the NYPD that the city settled in the last fiscal year, according to a report released this week by Comptroller Scott Stringer. [ more › ]...

New York City’s Board of Health has unanimously voted to uphold the Health Department’s emergency order announced last week that requires everyone in four Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant zip codes to be vaccinated for measles. The boa...

New initiatives to desegregate the city’s middle schools are making headway in pilot districts in Park Slope and on the Upper West Side, according to admissions data released this week. Most of the middle schools in Brooklyn’s District 15...