In the city’s effort to diversify city contracting, the administration is limited by procurement rules, MWBE firms by their small size and the law itself by the fuzzy process behind the goals it’s set. Part II in our series.
Eight years after the Bloomberg administration began an effort to get minority- and women-owned firms a bigger share of city contracts, targets have not been met. Part 1 of a three-part series.
The mayor’s final state of the city speech was a tribute to his past accomplishments as well as a to-do list for the final 320 days of his tenure.
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 on speed dial.
New York City is creating jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the country, but also seeing its unemployment rate rise—and not because new job seekers are flooding the market. What explains the disconnect?
Thousands of New Yorkers face an impossible choice when they get sick: Go to work and get yourself and others sicker, or stay home and risk losing pay or your post.
The city’s MillionTrees program fights asthma and global warming. But tightening maintenance budgets, increasingly severe weather and decades-old planting decisions complicate trees’ contribution.
The mayor’s ambitious affordable housing initiative is three-quarters to completion. But reshaped by fiscal woes, complicated by other city policies and often outgunned by the private market, what will the plan’s long-term impact be?
Hundreds gathered around City Hall on Tuesday to argue that Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts don’t add up—because there’s already ample money in the city’s coffers to close this year’s funding gap, and there could be even more.
After the city removed them last year, residents of the Staten Island community won’t be celebrating the holiday with burgers and beers outside their beachside bungalows. As this unique way of NYC life fades, a look at its complex—and charming—history.
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