Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs an executive order on June 12 requiring local police agencies, including the NYPD, to reinvent and modernize police strategies based on community input. With Rev. Al Sharpton, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Leader Carl Heastie, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; and Hazel N. Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference. ( Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) Reforming the Police Weeks after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters are still taking to the streets demanding police reform... News 15 Jun 2020 | 01:30
Working to help pass New York state's same-sex marriage legislation in 2011 was an early high point in Erik Bottcher's career. ( Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Erik Bottcher) It's All About the Details In Erik Bottcher’s ideal political world, policy problems would be resolved by gathering stakeholders around a table to hash... News 18 Feb 2020 | 11:30
Governor Cuomo tours L Train tunnel and shows improvements made ahead of schedule and on budget on September 29, 2019. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Cuomo) Who Runs the Transit System? Once upon a time in the Great City, Hugh L. Carey, one of New York’s best modern governors, and certainly its most underrated,... News 31 Jan 2020 | 01:46
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York politicians joined thousands of participants in the March Against Anti-Semitism on the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, January 5, 2020. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Taking Action Against Hate “No Hate. No Fear.” “#JewishANDProud.” “America 2020 Not Germany 1933.” The signs were everywhere on a cold, clear day in Lower... News 06 Jan 2020 | 01:29
Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that Loree Sutton, MD, Brigadier General (Ret.), will step down as Commissioner of the Department of Veterans’ Services during an event on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on October 3, 2019. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Loree Sutton A General's Next Campaign After a decades-long career in the military, and the transient lifestyle that accompanied it, retired Army brigadier general... News 27 Dec 2019 | 02:59
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, spoke about the toll that food insecurity takes on students. ( Photo: Sarah Ben-Nun) Fighting Food Insecurity at CUNY Food insecurity, defined by the United States Department of Agriculture as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally... News 19 Dec 2019 | 03:05
Honorees after the event with emcee Errol Louis (center) and Straus Media President and Publisher Jeanne Straus (right of center). ( Photos: Ciro J. Napolitano) Honoring Building Service Worker Award Winners Straus Media-Manhattan joined forces with 32 BJ SEIU last Wednesday to recognize the accomplishments of 21 building service... News 11 Nov 2019 | 12:03
First Lady Chirlane McCray hosts the Fourth Annual Faith Leaders ThriveNYC Breakfast at Gracie Mansion on April 11, 2019. ( Photo: Joanna Graham/Mayoral Photography Office) Facing a Mental Health Crisis The fatal police shooting of a bipolar man at a Brooklyn nail salon Friday has brought even more scrutiny on the de Blasio... Home 29 Oct 2019 | 09:18
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal, left, Speaker Corey Johnson and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. ( Photo: Courtesy Office of the City Council Speaker) At last, a city storefront database From the Upper West Side to Astoria to Bed-Stuy, empty storefronts seem to be everywhere you look in New York City. These... Voices 02 Aug 2019 | 02:18
A ghost bike memorial for cyclist Robyn Hightman, 20, who was struck and killed by a truck on Sixth Ave. at 23rd St. in June. ( Photo: David Noonan) Bike deaths prompt new safety plan Mayor Bill de Blasio has released a new five-year, $58.4 million plan to build more protected bike lanes, step up enforcement... News 02 Aug 2019 | 11:28
