PoliticsNY with Skye: Behind the Curtain with NYC Council Member Carlina Rivera
Click here to subscribe to the PoliticsNY YouTube channel. [1] Carlina Rivera just won re-election for NYC Council District 2 in Manhattan. Hear how she met her husband, how she'll help integrate the...
View ArticleNYPD and former New York Knicks make a play against food insecurity
The NYPD and former New York Knicks players teamed up to rebound against hunger this Thanksgiving. Businessman John Catsimatidis and wife, Margo Catsimatidis, organized a Thanksgiving food giveaway on...
View Article‘Hard, ugly choices’: MTA still needs more funds after federal COVID aid runs...
Governor Kathy Hochul may have postponed a fare hike until mid-2022, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority still has to find new funding streams to make up billion-dollar deficits when federal...
View ArticleMayor: 75,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to five through 11...
City officials said Wednesday 75,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to children between the ages of five and 11 so far. Out of those doses, at least 26,300 have been given at a...
View ArticleTenants rally at City Hall Park urging more programs to protect renters from...
Like a house of cards, temporary tenant protections are rapidly folding for New Yorkers, leaving the most vulnerable exposed to greater landlord abuse and eviction. As they've done throughout the...
View ArticleSheinkopf Speaks: The Dangers of Saying No to Public Prosecutors
[caption id="attachment_59126" align="alignleft" width="192"] Hank Sheinkopf[/caption] When the locally elected prosecutor gets you on the phone and says, 'give me some dough,' you will of course say,...
View ArticleSheinkopf Speaks: The Dangers of Saying No to Public Prosecutors
[caption id="attachment_59126" align="alignleft" width="192"] Hank Sheinkopf[/caption] When the locally elected prosecutor gets you on the phone and says, 'give me some dough,' you will of course say,...
View ArticleMTA puts cops on buses to lure riders back, stop fare evasion
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has started deploying its own police force onto its buses and is tapping NYPD to add more of its Boys in Blue to patrol the people movers, officials said...
View ArticleIslanders lose Ryan Pulock for 4-6 weeks
The New York Islanders struggling defense suffered another blow on Wednesday when it was revealed that top-pairing defenseman Ryan Pulock will miss four-to-six weeks after suffering a lower-body injury...
View ArticleReview |‘Diana’ embodies the definition of a ‘why?’ musical
What’s the British word for “schlock”? Technically speaking, “Diana,” the super-cheesy Princess Diana soap opera musical, officially opened on Broadway on Tuesday night. But for all intents and...
View ArticleIslanders owner Jon Ledecky on fans as UBS Arena opens: ‘This is their home’
Jon Ledecky was all smiles as he overlooked the observation deck near the recently-dedicated seat for veterans of war. The New York Islanders owner has done what many others before him could not:...
View ArticlePort Authority plans fare hike to $8 for AirTrains in 2022
AirTrain fares are slated to rise from $7.75 to $8 in January if the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's 2022 financial plan moves forward next month. The 25c increase to take the rail...
View ArticleFinally cleared: Two men wrongfully convicted of murdering Malcolm X...
A historic motion filed in a New York Supreme courtroom Thursday exonerated the accused two men previously convicted in connection with the murder of Malcolm X. For over half a century, Muhammad A....
View ArticleNew York City’s Black and Latino students to get increased access to after...
Black and Latino students in New York City will have expanded access to after-school sports after a preliminary settlement [1] has been reached earlier this week by New York Lawyers for Public...
View ArticleBrooklyn subway station officially renamed for Little Haiti
The Newkirk Avenue subway station on the 2/5 line in Flatbush has officially been renamed Newkirk Avenue-Little Haiti, honoring the large Haitian community in the area, officially known as Little...
View ArticleSouthern Brooklyn libraries gear up with storm-resilient solar power
The Coney Island Library launched a new solar-powered backup system on Tuesday, which comes as part of a multi-million dollar effort to retrofit southern Brooklyn’s book repositories into...
View ArticleNonprofits question mental health expansion in NYC schools
Following more than 4,000 NYC kids losing a parent [1] to COVID-19 since its outset in 2020, the city Department of Education (DOE ) hired 500 social workers this fall. Therefore, every city public...
View ArticleHochul secures federal Homeowner Assistance program for New Yorkers
Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday released a statement on more funds for homeowners to stop foreclosures that have been caused by the pandemic. Though the eviction and foreclosure moratorium does not...
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