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New York State increases unemployment benefits by more than $300 per week, pays off federal unemployment trust loan

Posted on June 30, 2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks about budget and affordability

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Final state budget includes Gov. Hochul’s affordability measures as she prepares for tough 2026 re-election fight

Posted on May 8, 2025

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Uncovered! Hochul and lawmakers agree on public mask restrictions in new budget deal

Posted on April 29, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about state budget deal

Politics

Mayor Adams scores wins on discovery laws, involuntary removal changes in state budget deal

Posted on April 29, 2025

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Bronx Times

Rep. Torres blasts Gov. Hochul over proposed cuts to Medicaid-funded autism services

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Brooklyn Paper

State makes record investment in nonpublic schools, enhances security amid rising hate crimes

Politics

Unhappy campers: New York tenant and landlord groups bash reported housing deal in state budget

Posted on April 15, 2024

Politics

State budget likely to be late as Albany lawmakers get ready to blow past April 1 deadline

Posted on March 27, 2024

City Council members speak at New York state budget hearing

Politics

State budget: Housing, preschool and more on City Council’s wishlist for funding from Albany as April 1 deadline looms

Posted on March 25, 2024

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Politics

State lawmakers counter Hochul’s $233B budget with plans that would raise taxes on wealthy, boost tenant protections

Posted on March 12, 2024

Mayor Adams speaks about migrant aid

Politics

‘It’s gonna be fine’: Mayor Adams shrugs off lack of more migrant aid in state lawmakers’ budget plans

Posted on March 12, 2024

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Politics

‘A moving crisis’: Mayor Adams again appeals in Albany for state to pick up half of migrant care costs

Posted on February 6, 2024

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Politics

Adams appears confident he’ll get more migrant help from Albany, even as Hochul barely mentions influx in annual speech

Posted on January 10, 2024

Governor Kathy Hochul shakes hands with New York lawmakers at the 2024 State of the State Address on Jan. 9, 2024 in the Assembly chamber

Politics

State of the State: Hochul focuses on retail theft, mental health, housing in annual address

Posted on January 9, 2024

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Community leaders press for details on the new Bronx jail — and investment in keeping people out

Richard Swygert was convicted of murder on March 19 for a triple shooting that killed a 20-year-old Rosedale man in front of the notorious and now-closed Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens during the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2021.

Bronx man convicted of murder for 2021 New Year’s Day triple shooting at notorious Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens: DA

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Brooklyn playwright’s show ‘Apoloholics’ has nothing to apologize for

Walter Naegle, Bayard Rustin's surviving spouse, delivers remarks on what would have been his late partner's 114th birthday.

Activists protest nuclear weapons in honor of Bayard Rustin’s birthday