Mayor De Blasio To Consider Pied-à-Terre Tax
Many who keep second homes in New York claim their permanent residency in nearby states.
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Many who keep second homes in New York claim their permanent residency in nearby states.
Amid continued scrutiny of problems at Rikers Island and other New York City jails, Mayor Bill de Blasio said bluntly that the situation in the city's correction department is very bad.
The Midland Beach basketball court restoration was the first of a season of events that will lead up to NBA All-Star Week in New York City this winter.
There was a party-like atmosphere in Manhattan on Sunday as protesters rallied for measures to combat climate change.
De Blasio unveiled the retrofitting plan on Sunday, the same day as the People's Climate March focusing on global warming in being held in Manhattan.
To prevent the card from being viewed as something only used by immigrants, the city is adding incentives so all New Yorkers will want one -- including free membership at 33 of the city's signature cultural institutions.
Mufid Elfgeeh pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts of attempting to provide material support and resources to the group designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S.
The chopper was helping to search for a missing person when police said the drone came within 50 feet of the aircraft.
Police have stepped up security in Times Square while still insisting that there's no information pointing to any terror plot against New York City linked to the Islamic State group.
Mayor Bill de Blasio will be headed to England later this month, to appear as the international speaker at the annual conference for the Labour Party.
Rafael Pineiro had been a top candidate for police commissioner before Mayor Bill de Blasio selected Bill Bratton.
A preliminary analysis of the security in New York and New Jersey will be complied within 10 days.
De Blasio and his family have been living at Gracie Mansion since July. But a uniformed cop and guard booth can still be outside his 11th Street row house in Brooklyn.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said he is applying for federal security clearance, following the revelation that he was the first mayor in 20 years without it.
The bill's chief sponsor, Councilman Brad Lander, said Friday that job seekers should be judged by their qualifications, not by whether they have enough money to pay their bills.
Family and friends of those who died read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
New York City is at the top of the terror target list, but for the first time in 20 years, the city's mayor does not have security clearance to review classified documents.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was speaking at the Crain's New York Business Breakfast when he was asked about being lectured by the Rev. Al Sharpton at City Hall back in July.
City Council Chair of Consumer Affairs Rafael Espinal Jr. said on Wednesday he does not support a ban on horse-drawn carriages in New York City.
At a City Council hearing Monday, Bratton said he wanted to hire 1,000 more police officers.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and Rep. Peter King joined Mayor Bill de Blasio in lower Manhattan to call for the reauthorization of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
The October 2012 storm dumped water and sand into the basements and first floors of the Coney Island Houses, crippling the buildings' electrical and mechanical systems and leaving residents without power for 22 days.
About 20 of the space agency's employees were hired two years ago under the Bloomberg administration.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will soon roll out a pilot program in five precincts and one housing project in which patrol officers will wear body cameras.
Mayor Bill de Blasio greeted streams of prekindergarten students Thursday on the first day of his ambitious expansion of early childhood education.
