Data from city tax filings indicate the richest New Yorkers saw income rise nearly 30 percent. Their city tax rate edged higher while state taxes took a smaller bite.
Dialing down into the details of how much of a contribution Mayor de Blasio hopes his newly passed Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning will make toward the goal of 80,000 new apartments…
The Bronx was the fastest growing county in the state last year. Is that because residents are fleeing there after being displaced from other parts of the city?
Prosecutor Ken Thompson says the cop who killed a man in a NYCHA stairwell shouldn’t do a day behind bars because he didn’t intend to hurt anyone. More than 200…
New Yorkers who are murdered are more likely than murder victims elsewhere to be stabbed. And women are more likely to die from a knife attack than a gun assault.…
Straight Up takes a sober look at whether the ballyhooed bi-partisan consensus on criminal justice reform will get a word in edgewise in a campaign increasingly dominated by The Donald.
The deal on the mayor’s citywide Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals means the action now moves back to neighborhood plans—and the decisions by individual councilmembers…