Mayor de Blasio

NYPD Commissioner Bratton retaliated against Sen. Ted Cruz’s comments about increasing surveillance on Muslims.

NYC Council passed a comprehensive tenant protection bill that some tenant organizers are calling a game changer for people living in rent stabilized apartments.

Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged on Tuesday that a spike in shootings was alarming but sought to reassure people the police department was handling the problem.

The National Weather Service is predicting 2 to 3 feet of snow across New York City and the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing for the worst.

Although the city’s police and correction officers share similar epithets—New York’s Finest and New York’s Boldest—they are not the same in nature.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton reprimanded police for turning their backs on Sunday during a funeral service and explained the citywide drop in arrests during a press conference Monday at One Police Plaza.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is poised to take another step toward achieving his lofty goal of making the nation’s largest city its greenest one.

Rachel Noerdlinger, a top aide to the mayor’s wife who recently came under media scrutiny for dating a convicted felon, announced Monday that she will be taking an indefinite, unpaid leave of absence from her chief-of-staff position.

If you are a native New Yorker or even if you’re not, you have probably read or heard the story of how the island of Manhattan was bought by a shrewd Dutch man back in 1626 from the unassuming Lenape (original people) for a mere $24.

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio has had to work overtime in the past few weeks. In between his regular duties and working to contain both the Ebola outbreak and the city’s panic over the virus, the mayor has pushed and pulled behind the scenes to secure control of the state senate by Democrats.

In an article in the Summer 2014 issue of City Journal, I discussed the effort by the de Blasio administration, the NAACP, the United Federation of Teachers, and other “progressives” to replace the legally mandated merit-selection test for acceptance into Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and New York City’s other elite high schools with “holistic” admissions criteria.

New York—City Council members introduced a bill several weeks ago that would create an open petition website for New Yorkers to voice their concerns, similar to the White House’s “We the People” website.

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday to increase wages for workers employed at building developments that receive more than $1 million in city subsidies.

New York City plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions down by 80 percent by 2050, and part of that plan includes tripling the amount of solar generated from City-owned buildings.

New York City children are crammed into classrooms in record numbers and this may sabotage everything the administration is trying to do to improve public education, 73 professors of education, psychology, and child development stated in a Monday open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

Paola Flores loves her 13-year-old daughter, Yennifer, so much that she arranged for a smuggler to send for her---asking her to jump the border from Honduras to New York.