New York State

Policy

Cuomo signed pay equity legislation – but does it guarantee equal pay?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his signing of “new pay equity legislation” on Wednesday morning, but fully ensuring that women and people of color get the same pay for the same work will be more complicated.

New York State

Politics

What 9 disgraced New York politicians are up to now

They’re pivoting to real estate, right-wing TV and meditation classes.

New York City

Politics

The New York City neighborhood names that failed or prevailed

New York magazine’s food vertical received some heat on Twitter after it published a guide to a “micro-neighborhood” it dubbed “Stuyshwick.” Here are some of the New York City neighborhood abbreviations that did and didn’t stick over the years, and some that landed in between.