Mayor Says More Details On NYC Public School Reopening Coming This Week
The largest public school system in the nation is poised to reopen in just three weeks. But parents are still seeking key information about how schools will operate against the backdrop of the highly...
View ArticleNYC Mandates Vaccination For Public School Staff
All public school staff — including teachers, custodians, food workers and contractors — must show proof they've received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by September 27th. Classes resume two...
View ArticleMTA Reports Fewer Hot Car Complaints This Year
As temperatures rise above ground, commuters often expect to step into the cool comforts of an air-conditioned subway. But it's so-called "hot car" season in the city. The MTA says it's actually...
View ArticleProtest Against Vaccine Mandate Draws Hundreds, Including Some Educators
This week, Mayor de Blasio announced the city's strongest vaccine mandate yet: requiring all public school staff get inoculated, without an option to get tested weekly instead. In response, hundreds of...
View Article9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART FOUR: See Something, Say Something
The most ubiquitous crime-fighting phrase to emerge in the aftermath of September 11 almost never made it into the American vernacular. The U.S. Department of Justice rejected it outright. It was only...
View ArticleLaGuardia Air Train Could Be Most Expensive Transit Project in World Per...
A new report finds the project to build a new AirTrain at LaGuardia airport would be the world’s most expensive transit project per rider. The AirTrain from the Mets-Willets Point stop in eastern...
View ArticleMTA Tallies Up $100M in Damage from Ida, Seeks to Work with City to Shore up...
The dramatic videos of waterfalls rushing down subway entrances, geysers erupting in the middle of platforms, and tracks submerged in water don’t tell the story of what happened next. The MTA pumped...
View ArticleWill NYC Expand Voting Rights To Some Immigrants?
New York City lawmakers are considering a bill that would give legal permanent residents the right to register to vote in municipal elections only, for offices like mayor and city council. Supporters...
View ArticleTaxi Drivers Protest At City Hall Over Debt Relief Plan
One of the demonstrators was Augustine Tang, a 37-year old medallion owner from Chinatown. He says he took over his dad's taxi when he died in 2015 but has been saddled with debt ever since. Tang says...
View ArticleOne Week In, NYC Announces Revised Testing and Quarantine Policies For Public...
The city will now test 10% of a public school's unvaccinated population every week, rather than every other week. Parents must still consent to the tests, and children in pre-k and kindergarten are...
View ArticlePrinceton Researchers Know How Dante de Blasio Voted - And He's Not The Only...
Researchers say city elections officials exposed the private ballots of hundreds of New Yorkers in the June primary. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports the mayor's son, Dante de Blasio, is one of them.For...
View ArticleNew York Senate to Grill MTA Officials on Billions in Federal Relief Aid It's...
For over a year and a half during the pandemic, the MTA saw fare revenues plummet. For months, the agency was losing $200 million dollars a week. Relief bills signed last winter and last spring, ensure...
View ArticleJudge Places Another Hold on Vaccine Mandate for NYC Educators
The deadline for New York City public school staff to get their first dose of the COVID vaccine was supposed to be by the end of Monday, September 27th. But the mandate is on hold as the city faces a...
View ArticleNY AG Letitia James Blasts Cuomo, Teases Possible Run For Governor
New York Attorney General Letitia James is not ruling out a run for governor. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports she delivered a rousing stump speech Wednesday to a gathering of the city's business and civic...
View ArticleNYC Vaccine Mandate For Educators Leads To Surge In Inocculations
The COVID vaccine mandate for all New York City public school staff is now in effect. Mayor de Blasio says 95 percent of all public school staff have now had at least one dose of the vaccine. That...
View ArticleVoter Registration Deadlines Loom In NY And NJ
Time is running out to register to vote in the upcoming general election in November. WNYC's Brigid Bergin has more.
View ArticleDon't Miss The Upcoming Absentee Ballot Deadline
WNYC's Brigid Bergin joins host David Furst for the first conversation in a series to prepare voters for the general election.
View ArticleDeadline To Register To Vote In NY Is Friday
Registration forms must be submitted by close of business Friday. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports.
View ArticleNewark Ex-official Indicted On Bribery Charges
Federal prosecutors have charged a former deputy mayor in Newark with defrauding the city. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Carmelo Garcia allegedly took cash bribes in exchange for using his position...
View ArticleThere Are More Early Voting Sites In NYC, Including Dozens Of Schools
WNYC's Brigid Bergin and Morning Edition host Michael Hill talk about what to watch for as we head towards the start of general election voting in NY and NJ on Saturday.
View ArticleRepublicans Hope To Hold On In Two Competitive NYC Council Races
WNYC and Gothamist's Brigid Bergin and David Cruz join Morning Edition's Michael Hill to talk about what's at stake in two competitive City Council races.For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleEarly Voting Starts In NY, NJ
The first day of early voting kicks off Saturday. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports.
View ArticleDemocrats Rally On The Upper West To Get Out The Vote
The event was as much about this election as the ones that follow. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports.
View ArticleMayoral Candidates To Meet In Final Debate Ahead Of General Election
Democrat Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa will make their closing arguments to voters on Tuesday night.
View ArticleDemocrat Eric Adams Punts Immigrant Voting Rights To State
Mayoral candidates Eric Adams, a Democrat, and Republican Curtis Sliwa debated one last time Tuesday night. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports on one issue where Adams shifted positions.
View ArticleDe Blasio Says City Agencies Can Adjust If Workers Don't Meet Vaccination...
Beginning Monday, all 378,000 city workers must show proof of at least one COVID vaccine dose, or they'll be sent home without pay. Mayor de Blasio says city agencies will address shortages by...
View ArticleThousands of NYPD Officers Still Have No Covid Shot Ahead Of Monday Mandate
More than eight thousand NYPD officers have still not received the COVID vaccine ahead of the city's mandate taking effect on Monday. They're among about 12,000 staff for first responder agencies who...
View ArticleStaten Island Judge Tosses Man's Conviction Citing Prosecutors' Failure To...
Staten Island prosecutors could still choose to re-try a Staten Island man. His defense team obtained body camera footage showing an NYPD officer appearing to drop marijuana into the cupholder of a car...
View ArticlePolls Open Across New York City Tuesday
More than a thousand poll sites will open across the city Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
View ArticleMeet Eric Adams, New York City’s New Mayor-Elect
On January 1st, Democrat Eric Adams will succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is term-limited out of office. For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleNYC Councilmembers Jockey To Become Council Speaker
The race for the second-most powerful position in New York City government is well underway, but unlike the mayoral election, this one isn't in the hands of voters. It’s the contest for City Council...
View ArticleWho Are Eric Adams’s Key Players? An Election Night Photo Is Symbolic &...
As the timeworn adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of political images, they are an exercise in stagecraft. Similar to former Mayor David Dinkins’s “gorgeous mosaic” metaphor,...
View ArticleFordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout Launches State A.G. Bid
Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout is making another run for state attorney general. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports. For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleNY Lawmakers Head to Albany To Review Long-Awaited Report on Andrew Cuomo....
Therelease of New York State Assembly’s long-awaited report into former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s conduct in office appears to be imminent. After eight months of investigation, and several months of...
View ArticleState Assembly Report Finds Cuomo Used State Resources to Enrich Himself
The New York State Assembly's Judiciary Committee has released a report into former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s conduct in office. It finds Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, in line with findings...
View ArticleAG James Releases Hours Of Video And Additional Written Testimony From Cuomo...
New York Attorney General Letitia James released yet another batch of transcripts and video footage on Monday that undergirded her office’s August investigation into sexual harassment allegations...
View ArticleA New Analysis Of Income Data Shows Income Inequality Shrank Under De Blasio
New York City narrowed the inequality gap between 2014 to 2019, defying a national trend, as the bottom half of earners steadily increased their share of income faster relative to wealthier ones, an...
View ArticleNew York City Voter Turnout Hits Record Low For A Mayoral Election
Only 23 percent of active registered voters cast a ballot for mayor. That's about 1.15 of the 4.95 eligible voters. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports.For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleNYC's Program to Curb Dangerous Driving Is Underway
New York City has a new program underway to crack down on reckless drivers. In early November the Department of Transportation sent out 160 letters to drivers who've racked up five tickets for running...
View ArticleNew York Attorney General Letitia James Drops Out Of Governor’s Race
Letitia James had announced her candidacy in October, two months after her office oversaw an investigation into then Governor Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment. For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleGrading De Blasio: Assessing the Mayor’s Pledge To Improve Democracy
When Mayor Bill de Blasio was reelected for a second term, he made an unusual commitment. Long-known for wanting to “End the Tale of Two Cities,” he now pledged to make New York the “Fairest Big City"...
View ArticleEthics Board Orders Cuomo To Pay Back $5.1m In Book Profits
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is trying to force Cuomo to pay back more than 5 million dollars he earned for American Crisis, his 2020 memoir about the COVID-19 pandemic. For more, go to...
View ArticleDiverse Coalition Presses State Lawmakers On Voting Rights Ahead of Session
The fight to expand voting rights, defend democracy and overhaul the agencies that run elections in New York State is getting a renewed push from a growing coalition of civil rights, labor, good...
View ArticleGun Industry Trying To Block New York’s ‘Public Nuisance’ Law
The gun industry is pushing back against a New York law that makes it easier to sue firearms manufacturers. For more, go to Gothamist.com.
View ArticleEric Adams Names Five Women As NYC Deputy Mayors
Mayor-elect Eric Adams has selected five women to be his deputy mayors, leading with Lorraine Grillo, a 20-plus-year City Hall veteran, who will become the first deputy mayor — one of the highest...
View ArticleGrading De Blasio: In East New York, Mayor’s First Rezoned Neighborhood,...
One of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature housing policies was a push to rezone 15 neighborhoods across the city for the stated purpose of allowing more affordable housing development. In our Grading De...
View ArticleWhat Are The Hopes Of A Majority Women City Council?: Women Members Reflect
When the new City Council holds its first official meeting on January 5th, in-person or online, among the defining attributes of the body’s membership will be the majority of women who dominate its...
View ArticleBronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. Reflects On 27-Year Career In Politics
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is leaving office on December 31st and is calling it the end of his 27 years in public life. In an exit interview with Gothamist/WNYC, Diaz Jr. reflected on his...
View ArticleReflecting on Eight Years of Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor de Blasio two terms in office end on Friday. WNYC’s Brigid Bergin, who covered his entire mayoralty, dove into the audio archives for this snapshot of his eight years in City Hall.
View ArticleAdams Spends First Weekend as Mayor Promising Law and Order – Without Brutality
Mayor Eric Adams spent his first 48 hours in office straddling the same line he did during his campaign: Promising law and order, particularly through the restoration of a controversial anti-crime...
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