The Council passed what advocates are calling the country’s most sweeping living wage bill—even after Gifford Miller diluted it in hopes of avoiding a veto.
In its effort to rebuild parts of the subway system, the city’s transit authority is using wood forested from rare African jungles, and, environmentalists charge, buying the wood from a…
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
The City Council may have grabbed headlines with their push against predatory lending, but the real action is in Albany, where Joe Bruno and the Republicans have announced they’re backing…
A day after Mayor Bloomberg, in his State of the City address, reminded City Council members to make severe cuts to their budgets, a few handfuls of those Council members…