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man speaking in red tie at campaign rally. Cuomo is leveraging social media to get ahead in the mayor race

Politics

Cuomo hopes a new social media game will help him overcome the odds. Can it work?

Posted on August 13, 2025

inna vernikov

Brooklyn Paper

Vernikov’s path to re-election in District 48 cleared after sweeping primary win

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani says Cuomo sees rent-stabilized tenants as ‘political pawns’ with means-testing proposal

Posted on August 12, 2025

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Mamdani maintains general election lead, Hochul’s 2026 edge over Stefanik narrows in new Siena poll

Posted on August 12, 2025

Zohran Mamdani with elected officials

Politics

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani launches citywide tour against Trump’s agenda

Posted on August 11, 2025

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards calls for flood mitigation infrastructure to be installed on the Cross Island Parkway. Photo: Shane O'Brien

QNS

Queens leaders call for flood signage and infrastructure in Bay Terrace

Man in a suit presents in front of a big screen, sitting at a table with a microphone

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo presents plan on affordability, painting Mamdani’s pitch as irresponsible and unrealistic

Posted on August 7, 2025

man in suit at Zohran Mamdani rally speaking at press conference

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani accuses Cuomo of ‘conspiring’ with Trump in wake of reported call

Posted on August 7, 2025

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: How each candidate plans to approach policing and crime

Posted on August 7, 2025

Donald Trump speaks about elections

Politics

NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo campaign denies report that ex-governor spoke with Trump about contest

Posted on August 6, 2025

Governor Kathy Hochul makes a discovery announcement.

Politics

New York change to discovery laws take effect in win for prosecutors

Posted on August 6, 2025

Masked men and ICE agents in immigration court in Lower Manhattan

ICE in court: Three months of immigrant raids by masked fed agents continue in Lower Manhattan, with no end in sight

Posted on August 6, 2025

Manhattan Councilmember Erik Bottcher at the New York City Council Land Use Committees Vote on East Midtown Rezoning.

Politics

Midtown South rezoning proposal passes council land-use committee alongside community investment

Posted on August 6, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Adams will provide mandated funding for free homeowner trash bins amid conflict with City Council

Posted on August 6, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about dietary changes

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Eric Adams again denied public campaign funds as board has ‘reason to believe’ laws were broken

Posted on August 6, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: ‘Man of God’ Eric Adams’ reelection effort nabs support from dozens of religious leaders

Posted on August 5, 2025

a woman sits at a table. Governor Kathy Hochul

Politics

Hochul labels Texas GOP redistricting a ‘legal insurrection,’ urges Democrats to fight back

Posted on August 5, 2025

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to commute, or shorten, ex-Rep. George Santos' prison sentence.

LI Press

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for Trump to commute George Santos’ sentence

City Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure

Posted on August 4, 2025

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine

LI Press

Suffolk Exec Romaine offers tax breaks to NYC businesses if Mamdani is elected mayor

The NYPD’s new quality of life teams along the Coney Island boardwalk.

Brooklyn

Mayor Adams and NYPD expand quality of life teams across Brooklyn after successful pilot

Posted on August 4, 2025

(left to right) Zohran Mamdani, DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido, and Senator Elizabeth Warren

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Elizabeth Warren campaigns with Mamdani in NYC, calling for universal childcare at DC37 union headquarters

Posted on August 4, 2025

man with beard and suit and tie speaking into tv news microphones Zohran Mamdani

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani leads with Jewish voters in new poll, but most worry his vision for NYC would make them less safe

Posted on August 1, 2025

Midtown Manhattan

Council member Tiffany Cabán among 50 protesters arrested in takeover of Schumer, Gillibrand’s Midtown offices

Posted on August 1, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams smiling and wearing shirt

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Eric Adams brushes off report that his campaign filed fraudulent signatures to get ballot line

Posted on August 1, 2025

Governor Kathy Hochul announced the project design kickoff for the Interborough Express in Brooklyn on Friday.

Brooklyn

Interborough Express: Gov. Hochul kicks off project design for long-awaited Brooklyn-Queens IBX

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn man indicted for loan fraud and election scheme: DA

NYC Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos with Mayor Adams announcing additional early childhood funding

Politics

EXCLUSIVE: Why did NYC Department of Education spend $745,000 at a single Brooklyn restaurant last fiscal year?

Posted on August 1, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams at the funeral of slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in a Midtown mass shooting on Monday, July 28. Thursday, July31, 2025.

2025 Mayor’s Race

Mayor Adams praises controversial NYPD unit that Mamdani vowed to dismantle during funeral for slain Bronx cop

Posted on July 31, 2025

People holding purple union signs behind man in black suit at podium

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: A September surprise? Key voting date could be the day one of Mamdani’s moderate challengers drops out – or not

Posted on July 31, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

In wake of mass shooting, Mamdani says past NYPD-bashing posts ‘out of step’ with his mayoral bid

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Bronx Times

Adams uses first land use veto to override City Council rejection of Bally’s application

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MTA’s transition to outside workers’ comp firm result in thousands of payment delays for employees

Posted on July 30, 2025

Man in a suit speaks at a podium next to a woman in a blue dress in front of a red curtain and next to a table of panelists.

Politics

Upper East Side antisemitism town hall zeroes in on anti-Israel sentiment, hate crimes, and universities

Posted on July 30, 2025

Midtown mass shooting suspect holding M4 rifle with photo of his permit

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: How Nevada gun laws helped enable a killer to wreak havoc and death in New York

Posted on July 30, 2025

man with beard and suit speaking at NYC mayor debate Zohran Mamdani

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani returns from Uganda trip without incident, immediately rejoins the campaign trail

Posted on July 30, 2025

people embrace during a candlelight vigil in Bryant Park

New Yorkers gather in Bryant Park to grief Midtown mass shooting victims, vow ‘we are stronger together’

Posted on July 30, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams smiling at campaign announcement

2025 Mayor’s Race

Is Adams’ relationship with Trump on the rocks? And will that help his longshot reelection effort?

Posted on July 29, 2025

man with beard and suit Mamdani speaking at podium with microphones in front of him

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: New poll finds Mamdani’s support for Palestinian rights and criticism of Israel helped him win primary

Posted on July 29, 2025

The body of the NYPD officer killed during Monday’s mass shooting in Midtown was transferred from the hospital to the Chief Medical Examiner overnight in a dignified transfer.

QNS

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Southeast Asian community of Queens mourns loss of Bangladeshi immigrant NYPD officer

People walking into Bronx home of slain officer in Midtown mass shooting

Bronx Times

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Officer Didarul Islam’s Parkchester neighbors remember him as friendly, prayerful

Man on phone in vest talking at crime scene mayor eric adams

2025 Mayor’s Race

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Leading mayoral candidates offer condolences in wake of massacre that could impact the race

Posted on July 29, 2025

man at Cuomo campaign rally speaking with suit and tie on

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo takes heat for claiming he ‘wasn’t in charge’ of building housing in NYC as governor

Posted on July 28, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

Transport Workers Union threatens to sue GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa over ‘defamatory’ horse abuse comments

Posted on July 28, 2025

man in suit and shirt holds up hand while reporters surround him for questions

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo charges Mamdani’s plan to hike taxes on corporations, wealthy is ‘impossibility’

Posted on July 28, 2025

Disgraced Rep. George Santos surrendered himself into custody to begin his 87-month prison sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

LI Press

Ex-Rep. George Santos surrenders to begin 87-month prison sentence

NYC EMS units respond to a medical emergency.

Politics

Op-ed | It’s time for Mayor Adams to pay EMS workers what they deserve

Posted on July 27, 2025

Zohran Mamdani

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Mamdani shakes up campaign staff in pivot from primary to general election

Posted on July 25, 2025

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