De Blasio Writes In Op-Ed Quality-Of-Life Concerns 'Overblown'
De Blasio wrote an opinion piece published on Sunday in the New York Daily News proclaiming his progressive policies are working.
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De Blasio wrote an opinion piece published on Sunday in the New York Daily News proclaiming his progressive policies are working.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials announced a major capital commitment Thursday to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding.
The Republican, whose presidential campaign has struggled to gain traction, said he hopes the Democratic mayor "gets his act together."
The mayor promised that the task force will examine the safety ramifications and crowed, "I think what we've done with Vision Zero is beyond what any previous administration has done."
The female officer, who part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's advance team, had pulled up to the mayor's residence on East End Avenue ahead of his arrival when the incident occurred.
Mayor Mill de Blasio defended his corrections commissioner Monday, after a New York Daily News editorial called for his ouster following a record-breaking month of inmate violence in city lockups.
Bratton made the suggestion in the wake of growing complaints about topless, body painted women and aggressive costumed characters seeking tips for photos.
New York City's police commissioner has a solution for the harassment and nuisance problems plaguing Times Square.
Eligible seniors must have less than $36,000 a year in income.
The next mayoral election is 810 days away, but already there's buzz about Democrats who might challenge Bill de Blasio.
"He's pretty bored," one unnamed source told the New York Post. "He's always been interested in politics, and he's always been interested in running for office."
Two uniformed New York City police officers who were spotted snapping selfies with the topless models in Times Square have been reassigned.
Though toplessness is not illegal in New York, aggressive panhandling and aggressive solicitation are illegal.
De Blasio lives in Gracie Mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, but he still commutes many days to the gym near his former house in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Elected officials and others say the city's homeless should not be blamed for any quality of life issues and claim the media is dehumanizing those who sleep on the streets.
The new law requires landlords to register, inspect and regularly clean cooling towers.
With crime up 26 percent in Central Park this year the Guardian Angels have resumed crime patrols for the first time in 20 years.
Mayoral spokeswoman Karen Hinton said it's a quality-of-life problem and city agencies are working on approaches to tackle it.
A suspected gang member who shot a firefighter and then barricaded himself inside a home on Staten Island is dead after a six-hour standoff, police said Friday.
De Blasio's press secretary Karen Hinton said the mayor was at the gym for at least 80 minutes during the standoff, which started at around 6 a.m.
A dire warning has been issued from the head of the city correction union -- fix the jails, Mr. Mayor, or people will die.
As of last week, the 311 system fielded more than 20,000 calls related to the homeless. That's up from more than 12,000 two years ago.
More than 150 people packed a town hall meeting in the Bronx as city officials and doctors tried to put them at ease over the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
The state's third- through eighth-graders – as well as those specifically of New York City – did slightly better on Common Core-aligned math and English assessments than last year.
New York City lawmakers will start debating a bill requiring all cooling towers to be registered and routinely tested after the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the South Bronx.
