Assembly Member Diana Richardson named Brooklyn deputy borough president

Borough President Antonio Reynoso chose a fellow progressive, which will create an open legislative seat.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 10, 2022

Is this nonprofit responsible for Eric Adams’ primary win?

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 10, 2022

Meet the new City Council

A giant class of 35 incoming members with big ambitions.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 10, 2022

How Adrienne Adams became the speaker

The compromise candidate’s win came after Mayor Eric Adams picked someone else.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 10, 2022

Pace University navigates COVID-19, clinches national contest and looks to future

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the school across from City Hall in Lower Manhattan won the 18th annual national College Fed Challenge and enrolled its largest incoming class of first-year students.

• By Ralph R. Ortega
• January 10, 2022

Meet New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

The Queens lawmaker wasn’t Mayor Eric Adams’ first choice, but she made history anyway.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 10, 2022

Adrienne Adams, Eric Adams and Hochul in the first week of 2022

Rounding up the week’s political news.

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 8, 2022

Is this nonprofit responsible for Eric Adams’ primary win?

Show Up, Turn Out, launched a campaign to encourage Black New Yorkers to vote in the election and the result they say was a big bump in voter turnout.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 8, 2022

Can Eric Adams really hire his brother?

Bernard Adams wouldn’t be the first family member of a mayor to work in their administration.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 7, 2022

New council members denounce conditions at Rikers

After a visit to the deteriorating jails complex, new progressive council members decried the “dehumanization” at Rikers.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 7, 2022

Eric Adams’ first week: An icy reception from labor, a cozy appearance with Hochul

The mayor continued to build out his staff, boost law enforcement, and practice healthy habits.

• By Sara Dorn
• January 7, 2022

A nonprofit thought leader’s resolutions for a new year: To follow and to fail

• By Lisa Pilar Cowan
• January 7, 2022

Hochul and Adams take tag-team approach to subway homelessness

The move to direct more cops to the subway system has already raised some eyebrows.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 6, 2022

New data proves bail reform both worked and failed, depending on who you ask

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• January 5, 2022

Adrienne Adams elected first Black City Council speaker

Former speaker candidates Keith Powers and Diana Ayala were named to leadership positions at the council’s first meeting.

• By Annie McDonough
• January 5, 2022

Opinion: How the current worker shortage is really a wage shortage

• By Saru Jayaraman and Tom Perriello
• January 4, 2022

NYC Mayor Eric Adams insists all is well with the UFT amid schools battle

Adams made the declaration days after members of the union filed a lawsuit seeking remote schooling as COVID-19 cases surge.

• By Sara Dorn
• January 4, 2022

Is the future of open data in NYC going to be decentralized storage?

The city's open data on demographics, air quality and legal notices was uploaded to Filecoin’s distributed network to evaluate its security and reliability.

• By Stephanie Kanowitz
• January 4, 2022

Adams probably can’t veto the new noncitizen voting law – but he might not defend it either

The new mayor said he is uncomfortable with allowing noncitizens who have lived in the city for just a month to vote. He has some choices to make about the controversial voting rights bill.

• By Jeff Coltin
• January 3, 2022

Location of proposed Elizabeth Jennings Graham monument draws fire

Some argue the statue of the Black woman credited with ending segregated streetcars in New York City should be placed in Lower Manhattan because of its significance to her story.

• By Briana Ellis-Gibbs
• January 3, 2022