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The assemblymember wants to unseat Nico Minerva, right hand to party boss Keith Wright. The Manhattan Democrats vote on Thursday.
At a heated town meeting, a resident warned “pedophiles or criminals” would move into new housing.
With crowds bussed in from New York City, Resorts World Catskills gave a boost to the local economy. What happens when competition moves in downstate?
For Daniel Martuscello III, New York prisons are a family business.
A raucous emergency meeting featured escalating alarm, bewilderment, a hot mic, dueling accusations of conflicts of interest, and a dramatic vote with two surprise twists.
The assemblymember wants to unseat Nico Minerva, right hand to party boss Keith Wright. The Manhattan Democrats vote on Thursday.
New York’s labyrinthine “rate case” process, explained.
Albany empowered its community oversight board. But the police department and the city’s top attorney are stonewalling.
Will putting a price on trash keep the state’s garbage from overflowing?
As a humanitarian crisis deepens, the state’s $25 million solution is off to a slow start. An in-depth look at the opaque program reveals a raft of logistical hurdles and strict eligibility requirements.
New York Focus revealed routine secret instructions used to guide judges’ decisions. Civil rights lawyers are suing to make them public.
Kathy Hochul proposed an executive order to extend the controversial 421-a tax break. Labor unions shot it down.
Under Roberta Reardon, the agency has recovered less and less of workers’ stolen wages. Meanwhile, staff resign, and replacements lag.
New York’s top elected officials showered the Brooklyn party with praise, but is it doing anything to support its candidates?
In California, getting labor on board was essential to addressing the housing crisis. In New York, unions say the governor has barely tried.
They’re on their way, officials promise. But they’re years late.
In New York’s third-largest city, locals are sick of skyrocketing bills and dirty fuel sources. They’re fighting against long odds for the public to own the grid.
A major wind and solar developer is defecting from industry ranks, arguing the state shouldn’t bail out struggling projects.
The iconic public defense organization is due back in its Brooklyn office Monday. Attorneys, reporting health complications, say they’ve dreaded the return.
In emails to the governor’s office, the Real Estate Board of New York proposed scaled back tenant protections for the state budget.
Men locked up in the Broome County jail describe an opioid treatment program so shoddy, they risk withdrawal, relapse, and overdose.
Mixed evidence was piling up about a signature New York drug policy experiment. Then the state stopped releasing the data.
The assemblymember wants to unseat Nico Minerva, right hand to party boss Keith Wright. The Manhattan Democrats vote on Thursday.
Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.
It was hard enough to get back on Social Security and Medicaid after incarceration. Then Eric Adams slashed reentry services.
How a Hamptons mine, in defiance of New York’s top court, keeps trucking out precious piles of sand.
Counties across the state are blowing past legal deadlines to process SNAP applications, leaving families struggling to eat. The delays may be about to get even worse.
In Syracuse, the I-81 viaduct has two groups at war. One wants to tear it down, one wants to leave it up — all in the name of environmental justice.
The addiction epidemic is getting worse in the Capital Region. Through local zoning laws, residents fight to keep the state’s solutions out of their backyards.
A group of Manhattan Democrats wants to force County Leader Keith Wright to choose between working for the party and working for a lobbying firm.
Massena residents fought the local utility to bring their electric grid under public control. Forty years later, they say it’s still paying off.
The state Division of Human Rights considers prisons, jails, and police departments exempt from human rights law.
The Adams administration said the city would replace discontinued Rikers courses. “I can say for certain that that’s not true,” one worker told New York Focus.
The legislation follows New York Focus reporting that showed a major gas utility may have been siphoning off customers’ bills to fund an anti-electrification campaign.
The situation at Rikers is bad, but at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility more than 200 miles north of New York City, it’s worse.
In the state’s byzantine system for addiction services, some people don’t know they have tenants’ rights. Some don’t have them at all.
Air-polluting “peaker” plants were a top priority for closure in New York’s green transition. But the state isn’t building clean energy fast enough to replace them on time.
A Rochester-area political ad firm spent four times the limit in a recent Democratic primary. It’s not clear it will face any consequences.
Two years after the state banned plastic bags, many New York City businesses are still distributing them with little fear of consequences.
ID.me’s facial recognition tool was supposed to help administer unemployment securely. Users say the tech has barred them from their accounts — and their paychecks.
The mayor is putting New York City’s landmark climate and jobs law in jeopardy, our columnist argues.
A seemingly minor change in access to city jails has made it much harder for a lauded debate course to recruit volunteers.