Resorts World is floating legislation to avert more than $500 million in payments to the horseracing industry.
Some of the city’s new aid will be canceled out by pension boosts.
The Department of Justice has terminated more than 100 immigration judges since last year as it has pressured courts to order more deportations.
After a New York Focus investigation, a Bronx charity distributed nearly $400,000 to survivors of a deadly 2022 fire.
Trump administration rules are keeping immigrant kids detained, even when their parents are available to care for them. Families are using a new legal tool to free them.
New York City’s $125 billion executive budget hinges on taxes and cuts whose details are still being worked out in Albany.
Master agreements let the city wildly exceed spending projections while avoiding typical oversight, the city’s comptroller found.
Cheikh Fall has spent nearly two decades helping New York immigrants from his home region seek asylum in the United States.
A super PAC has spent six figures on the race over the last week — more than all the candidates had raised as of last month, combined.
The mayor may delay his executive budget proposal while he awaits billions of dollars in potential Albany aid.
The governor has asked for cost-cutting plans on pricey housing vouchers and public school programs, sources say.
The Carlyle Group’s effort to buy up rental housing has gotten a $578 million boost from the city and state.
The party collected record-breaking gifts from Airbnb and Uber, while party operatives lobbied Bronx lawmakers.
Longtime Cuomo aide Charlie King has been involved in efforts to boost Assemblymember Jordan J.G. Wright.
That number is up from 21 last July. New York City’s waitlist alone has surged to over 17,000 — a tenfold increase in less than a year.
The city could lose $239 million from the policy, which is supported by business groups while unions remain on the sidelines.
Some climate activists want the mayor to take a stronger stance. He previously said the state’s climate law “is not a suggestion. It is a mandate.”
The administration will soon send legislators a plan to meet a mandate capping class sizes, said NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.
Sold as a pandemic-era emergency program, the state’s theater tax credit has quietly sent hundreds of millions to short-run flops and blockbuster hits.
Over the last three months, ICE attorneys in New York state have petitioned to send half of the African asylum seekers who had immigration hearings to Uganda.