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Seventeen percent -- that's how much more your next cab ride could cost you. People for and against a proposed taxi fare hike faced off Monday at the final public hearing on the issue.
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Seventeen percent -- that's how much more your next cab ride could cost you. People for and against a proposed taxi fare hike faced off Monday at the final public hearing on the issue.
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, the first Dominican-American to serve in the state Legislature, would have become the first Dominican-American in Congress if he had prevailed.
After a ballot count that ended on Saturday, New York City Board of Elections spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez said that the 82-year-old congressman received 18,940 votes.
The New York City Board of Elections concluded its two-day count of absentee and affidavit ballots with Rangel 989 votes ahead of state Sen. Adriano Espaillat.
The retail and transportation industries, plus the government, all cut jobs last month. Manufacturing jobs were up and so were jobs in health care and financial services.
Imagine having your electricity go off every 15 minutes during this intense heat wave. That's what a group of tenants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn say is happening to them.
The 13th Congressional District race appeared decided last week on election night, with Rangel seemingly holding a sizable lead. But the vote margin shrank, leading some to wonder if state Sen. Adriano Espaillat conceded too soon.
Even "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" would be taken aback by this story. A woman received a ticket for parking in a bike lane that doesn't exist – and New York City is saying "too bad, pay the fine."
Marty Golden's website said women from his Brooklyn district would be taught to "sit, stand and walk like a model" and how to "walk up and down a stair elegantly" at the July 24 event.
A tally released by the New York City Board of Elections over the weekend showed Rangel with a lead of 802 votes and about 2,000 absentee or other ballots still to be counted.
There was drama at the statehouse on Monday. Governor Chris Christie called a special joint session of the Legislature to ask Democrats to pass a tax-cut plan they actually sponsored.
A Manhattan judge will hear claims that votes were tallied improperly in Tuesday's Democratic primary pitting Rep. Charles Rangel against state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in the race for the newly-formed 13th Congressional District.
Gov. Chris Christie has signed a budget that keeps New Jersey government humming along through next June, but with a millionaires' tax and property tax cut still unresolved, the partisan fiscal fight between the governor and the Democrats has spilled into summer.
New York City officials have concluded their annual budget dance with an agreement that preserves child care, classrooms and other threatened programs, but uncertainty surrounding parts of the plan could lead to more than $600 million in cuts midway through the year.
"Did I say on topic?" Christie said to the reporter. "Are you stupid? On topic, on topic. Next question. Thank you all very much and I'm sorry for the idiot over there."
