Policy
Policy
City blames staffing shortages for slow delivery of food stamps
The timely processing rate for SNAP applications continued to plummet in the first four months of fiscal year 2023.
New York City
Policy
As some asylum-seekers resolve to stay at Manhattan hotel, others catch the bus to Brooklyn
“We want a good place to live like humans,” one 22-year-old from Venezuela said of being told to leave a Manhattan hotel for a barracks-style shelter in Red Hook.
NYPD
Politics
Protests over the police killing of Tyre Nichols are expected in NYC tonight. Can the NYPD do better this time?
Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul said police were prepared to monitor protests.
Eric Adams
Policy
5 takeaways from Eric Adams’ State of the City
The New York City mayor laid out his “Working People’s Agenda” for 2023 at a theater in Queens on Thursday.
Heard Around Town
Policy
Internet access for some of New York's neediest residents to be announced in Eric Adams' state of the city
Among the efforts planned for this year is a broadband pilot program for Section 8 households in the Bronx and Northern Manhattan, New York City's mayor told City & State.
New York State
Politics
Al Taylor has come around on New York’s Equality Amendment
The Assembly member and New York City Council candidate said his personal views should not “overrule the right for someone else to make their own decisions.”
Housing
Policy
NYC’s basement apartment pilot draws only 5 participants
A program to bring some illegal basement apartments up to code has demonstrated the financial and regulatory hurdles to conversions – a setback for the mayor and governor’s housing agendas.
Technology
Policy
New York City embarks on creating an AI strategy
The Office of Technology and Innovation is hiring a director of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Heard Around Town
Policy
NYC’s law to prevent artificial intelligence bias in hiring is in limbo
The implementation of the 2021 law has been delayed until April, while the city continues to consider how to define automated hiring tools and other draft rules.
Budget
Policy
Eric Adams eliminates vacant job openings, by the numbers
More than 4,300 city positions were cut in the mayor’s latest financial plan.
Heard Around Town
Policy
Adams rallies the nation’s mayors
The New York City mayor wants his counterparts to join him on addressing gun violence, the fentanyl epidemic and asylum-seekers.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Inez Dickens has the early fundraising lead in Harlem City Council race
The Assembly member is looking to unseat socialist Kristin Richardson Jordan.
Immigration
Politics
Adams on migrant crisis: NYC can’t do it alone
The New York City mayor pitched a “national czar” to better manage the influx of asylum-seekers at the southern border.
Immigration
Policy
NYC requests state support in sheltering 500 asylum seekers
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city will soon be unable to continue sheltering migrants on its own.
Budget
Policy
This year’s budget dance begins, amid tensions between mayor and City Council
The initial spending proposal for fiscal year 2024 will take thousands of vacant city jobs off the books.
Politics
Politics
Nassau Republicans call on George Santos to resign
“He is a stain on the House of Representatives,” said County Executive Bruce Blakeman.
Policy
Policy
Kathy Hochul’s State of the State is out. What’s in it for NYC?
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she wants to replace an affordable housing tax incentive and revisit one of Mayor Eric Adams’ top priorities: bail reform.
Heard Around Town
Politics
NYC politicians back nurses on first day of strike
Over 7,000 nurses walked off the job at Mount Sinai and Montefiore Monday
Campaigns & Elections
Politics
Council race in new majority Asian American district heats up
New York City’s redistricting process created a new majority Asian American district in Brooklyn, and three first-time candidates are off to the races already.
Heard Around Town
Politics
Top Black electeds met to talk about crime, but they don’t have much to say yet
Rev. Al Sharpton brought some of New York’s leaders together for a closed door discussion.
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