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NYC Common Sense Caucus proposes legislation to end sanctuary city status amid migrant crisis

Mayor Eric Adams

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Mayor dodges questions on reports that federal grand jury is reviewing evidence in campaign probe

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Brooklynites fume over congestion pricing delay: ‘Kathy Hochul has betrayed us’

By Dean Moses

MTA chair speaking on congestion pricing improvements

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Congestion pricing: MTA left in the lurch after Hochul scraps toll plan, Albany fails on funding bill

Traffic on Third Avenue in Manhattan.

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Hochul’s congestion pricing reversal comes for a policy decades in the making

Fair Fares

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City Council seeks expansion of Fair Fares transit discount to 650,000 more New Yorkers: report

Mayor Adams announces new public restrooms to be built

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When you gotta go: NYC to get 46 new public restrooms over next 5 years

This is a cartoon version of pigeons on a wire.

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Anger, relief and denial: Brooklynites react to Trump’s hush-money conviction

By Adam Daly & Kirstyn Brendlen

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Summer weather: Adams rolls out new preparations for extreme heat, poor air quality

By Ethan Stark-Miller & Brooklyn Paper staff

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell

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‘I like his style’: Mayor Adams defends NYPD chief of patrol amid social media controversy

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State court revives suit to overturn Local Law 97 on appeal, potentially imperiling landmark climate law

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Pair of Council Committees approve tweaks to ‘City of Yes’ zoning changes for businesses

mcguinness boulevard rally

‘Irresponsible’: Locals criticize Adams, DOT as McGuinness Boulevard redesign falters

By Kirstyn Brendlen

men in suits at a podium discussing social workers at NYPD police stations in NYC

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Why City Council members want to put a social worker in every NYPD precinct

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams rallies with her colleagues, advocates and hundreds of seniors outside City Hall to call for the restoration of funding for older adult centers and meal programs. Thursday, May 16, 2024.

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‘We won’t allow that’: City Hall rallygoers demand Mayor Adams roll back cuts to senior centers, meal programs

Adams, Banks

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City Council calls on Mayor Adams to restore pre-K, 3-K budget cuts

City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks about migrant shelter limit report

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Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

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Council Member Inna Vernikov sued for defamation by Russian-language media mogul

By Adam Daly

state sen. Zellnor Myrie

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State senator Zellnor Myrie launches committee to explore 2025 mayoral run

By Ethan Stark-Miller

crystal hudson

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Struggling to support thousands of migrants in local shelters, CM Crystal Hudson says district has received ‘no material support’ from City Hall

By Kirstyn Brendlen

More from Around New York

Yanery Cruz delivers remarks in observance of Transgender Day of Visibility in March of 2025.

City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus hires executive director

From left, Consul General of Guyana to New York From left, Consul General to New York, Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Pauline Sukai, Investment and Diaspora Initiatives Head Fazil Joe Yussuff, joined the 38th Annual Phagwah float parade, and cultural presentation at Phil Rizzuto Park on March 29, 2026.

Sukai brings Guyana greetings to Queens Phagwah

Spring Fling at Columbus Circle: Free Family Events in NYC

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Spring Fling at Columbus Circle: Free Family Events in NYC

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NYC to resume construction on Flatbush Avenue bus lanes later this month