Members of the City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted for Julie Menin, who represents Manhattan’s Upper East Side, as their next speaker. The City Council speaker leads the 51-member body. She sets the legislative agenda by deciding which bills come for a vote before the Council, wrangling members on legislation and negotiating the annual city […]

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When Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced he was reappointing Adams administration holdover Michael Garner as the city’s top official promoting diversity in city contracts, he singled out Garner’s past success aiding minority- and women-run businesses in a similar role he had held for years at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). But Garner’s record of MWBE […]

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It’s almost the end for the city’s migrant shelter system. Mayor Zohran Mamdani instructed the Department of Homeless Services on Monday to come up with a plan by mid-February to phase out what remains of the network, long maligned by critics as a “shadow shelter system” where longstanding minimum standards for other city shelters don’t […]

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The Trump administration is poised to freeze approximately $10 billion in funding for several programs supporting child care, social services grants and cash assistance in several Democratic-led states. Minnesota, California, Colorado, New York and Illinois would lose access to billions in funding through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, the Child Care and Development […]

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday night signed a new executive order extending the long-running emergency declaration governing the city’s jails and Rikers Island, while requiring Department of Correction leadership to produce a concrete plan to unwind years of suspended jail rules including restrictions on solitary confinement. The order renews, for another five days, the state […]

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