A report on civic engagement found that Borough Park’s residents donate the most to charity, East Flatbush is tops when it comes to voting and East New York has 311…
Corruption, cronyism—much was wrong with old-fashioned machine politics. But compared to today’s campaigns of sound-bites and surveys, yesterday’s ward heelers fused genuine relationships between politics and people’s lives.
In heavily Democratic Kings County, there’s little suspense in the presidential race. But Mitt Romney’s a heavy favorite in a few neighborhoods that favored GOP candidates in 2004 and 2008.
In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s Justice Department took the first steps in what he would later declare the “War on Drugs.” This timeline outlines the policing, politics, and culture of…
The executive director and director of operations of New York’s Animal Care & Control resigned last week as the city’s shelter system faces criticism and a key court fight.
The primary battle between State Senator Martin Dilan and challenger Jason Otano was depicted as a referendum on the embattled Bushwick assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic powerhouse Vito Lopez, a Dilan…
“The World Votes Here” aims to get a glimpse of the complex and interesting ways in which the city’s ethnic enclaves are participating in campaign 2012.
The Republicans call welfare reform “the most successful anti-poverty policy in memory” and the Democrats claim the stimulus saved 7 million people from poverty. What else do the platforms have…
After two Supreme Court decisions clarifying the right to bear arms, many thought New York state and city gun restrictions would be the next target. So far, challenges have been…
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