As tenants and landlords fight for changes in the state’s rent laws, a set of figures used by some property owners to argue that the regulations should be loosened could foil tenants’ campaign-that is, if those numbers were right.
Following an outcry from youth advocates and City Council members, the city Department of Employment last week withdrew a controversial proposal for its summer youth employment program that could have left a disproportionate number of teens from the city’s poorest neighborhoods without jobs.
The mayor’s office has added analysis, historical stats and a beefed up online mapping tool to its preliminary management report.
The bus line linking Bronx workers to Westechester jobs made it through a tight budget process relatively unscathed.
Mayor Bloomberg says the first step in making Long Island City a business district is cleaning it up.
New York’s union workers are shrinking, but the state’s workforce is still the nation’s most unionized.
A new IBO report breaks down the details of Mayor Bloomberg’s housing plan.
Advocates and schools officials are challenging a study that prompted the White House to cut funding for a popular afterschool program.
Three new Assembly bills want prison clincis under DOH control, and STD prevention made universal.
The economy is tanking citywide, but it’s a deeper fall for some than others.
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