The official candidate list for the general election is out, and unlike Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, every municipal office has two major-party contestants, as well as third-party alternatives.
Come November 5, one Council candidate will have no opponent at all. Several Democrats will face no Republican opposition. And a few races will offer crowded fields.
Will Bill de Blasio’s huge, crazy, enormous, commanding lead over Joe Lhota hold up on Election Day? Will the polls themselves shape the outcome they’re trying to predict?
Child protection experts say false, malicious reports of abuse are not uncommon. Efforts to address the problem face complex challenges.
Beyond the shutdown, and besides the debt-ceiling deadline, another date approaches for cuts to the Food Stamp program on which some 1.9 million New Yorkers depend.
The city’s participatory budgeting experiment moves into its third cycle, with Brooklyn more deeply bought in than the other boroughs.
With 65 percent of the borough’s adults overweight, there are growing calls to increase physical education in schools and elsewhere.
The agency’s decision—which backtracked on a proposal to store some contaminated material in Red Hook—clears the way for a $506 million cleanup to begin.
The next mayor will inherit a substantial homelessness problem. He should prevent evictions by giving tenants representation in housing court.
Citing fiscal pressure, the schools want to use in-classroom libraries and parent volunteers instead of certified librarians. Critics say kids need more than that.
