Shocked by the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for mayor, finance billionaires like Bill Ackman rushed to raise millions to defeat him in the general election. Now, a month after the election, a charm offensive by the Democratic nominee and the efforts of key business leaders to open a line […]

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Trains last ran across an abandoned stretch of Queens tracks in 1962, but a distant dream to have them reactivated as more railway than greenway is still chugging. The New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign on Wednesday released a new report calling on the city to prioritize the long-hoped-for transit revival of what […]

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A proposal to switch New York City to an open primary system — allowing voters in any party to take part in the first round of elections — will not be added to this November’s ballot, the head of the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission announced Wednesday. Richard R. Buery Jr., who chairs the group looking […]

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A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Tuesday granted 30 recently hired NYPD officers a reprieve from being fired, rejecting the department’s bid to end a temporary order blocking the terminations. The NYPD told the officers last week they had 24 hours to resign or face termination because they had been improperly hired in 2023 or […]

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This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani met with Democratic members of Congress in Washington on Wednesday morning, as several members of the caucus have expressed reservations about his rise in the party. […]

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