If your state senator or assemblymember is running unopposed next week, there’s no one to raise questions about their performance. So you’ll have to check into it yourself.
State Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr., a Democrat, faces no Republican opposition in his re-election campaign—because he’s the Republican candidate, too. Does that reflect his constituents’ sentiment, or deny them a…
Watch the latest episode of “Straight Up,” the Brooklyn Independent Media reporters’ roundtable that trades studio seats for bar stools. This month, Capital New York’s Azi Paybarah and Ben Max…
It’s not gentrifying neighborhoods, for the most part, according to a new report. Instead, it’s the neighborhoods where people find refuge from displacement.
The de Blasio administration is stepping up oversight of employment agencies, which need to be licensed and can only charge certain fees. But the targeted firms can change names and…
Mayor de Blasio’s housing plan was full of ambition and ideas. Achieving them will require streamlining and rearranging the city’s housing development system, says HPD’s commissioner.