Members of 32BJ SEIU get hyped up at the intersection of Broadway and 41st. St. The union has authorized a strike, which will go down if contract negotiations with building owners remain stalled. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Building Service Workers’ Union Authorizes Strike, As Contract for 20,000 Workers Expires 12/31 If negotiations with building owners can’t reach a consensus point, a union representing 20,00 NYC commercial building service... Home 02 Jan 2024 | 04:51
Dr. Sharon McLennon Weir (center), the executive director of CIDNY, speaking at a rally against Beth Israel’s closure. Pols surrounding her (from left to right) include: Mark Levine, Kristen Gonzalez, Chris Marte, Brian Kavanagh, Erik Bottcher, Carlina Rivera, Deborah Glick, and Keith Powers. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Pols & Health Advocates Rally Against Mount Sinai’s Plans to Close Beth Israel Mt. Sinai’s plan to close its Beth Israel campus by next July was roundly condemned at a Dec. 14 rally outside the hospital,... News 16 Dec 2023 | 03:13
929 Lincoln Place, the home of Eric Adams’s top fundraiser, was reportedly raided by F.B.I. agents on November 2. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Home of Eric Adams Fundraiser Raided by F.B.I., Straw Donor Scheme Probed The home of Eric Adams’s top fundraiser was raided by F.B.I. agents looking into illegal foreign donations, resulting in... Home 04 Nov 2023 | 02:54
(Officials from the Office of Cannabis Management, from left to right): Patrick McKeage, First Deputy Director; Chris Alexander, Executive Director; Damian Fagon, Chief Equity Officer. They faced questions in a New York State Senate hearing on legal and illegal cannabis shops. ( Photo via OCM ) Pols Question Cannabis Officials About Unlicensed Dispensaries, As New Legal Licenses Readied State senators in Albany questioned various cannabis stakeholders on October 30, including officials from the Office of Cannabis... Home 03 Nov 2023 | 06:35
Rebecca Seawright, the Chair of the People with Disabilities Committee in the New York State Assembly, was the lead sponsor for two bills mandating inclusive language for people with disabilities. ( Photo via Rebecca Seawright ) Disability Rights Bills Pushed by Seawright Are Signed Into Law Governor Kathy Hochul has signed two bills intended to further inclusivity for people with disabilities into law. Namely,... News 02 Oct 2023 | 01:25
For the past four years, Ken Frydman, a one-time press secretary for Rudy Giuliani, has turned into an unrelenting critic of his recent turn. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons Figuring Out What Really Happened to Rudy Giuliani Figuring out what happened to Rudy Giuliani has been my side-job these past four years. It started with a New York Times... Voices 25 Aug 2023 | 12:34
Noelle Dunphy (right) who said she had dated Rudy Giuliani while working for him, filed a sexual harassment and wage theft lawsuit against the former NYC mayor and former advisor to former President Trump earlier this year. Giuliani, who denies the claims, had wanted the case moved to federal court, but a judge shot that down. Photo: Noelle Dunphy iphone. Judge Rejects Move To Transfer Sexual Assault Suit Against Rudy Giuliani To Federal Court A federal judge has rejected a move by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to transfer a lurid sex assault and wage... News 19 Jul 2023 | 05:37
NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (third from right) describes the clean-up operation at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in lower Manhattan to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (second from left) on Nov. 14, 2001. Photo: Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giuliani’s Fall from America’s Mayor to Trump Sycophant There came a moment when Michael Bromwich began to think this was not the Rudolph Giuliani he had worked with to prosecute... News 31 Dec 2022 | 05:01
Democratic NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman (left) campaigned with Attorney General Letitia James (center) and Democratic NYS Assembly candidate Grace Lee (second from right) on the Lower East Side on Election Day. Photo via Dan Goldman’s Twitter A Blue Wave Sweeps Manhattan Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 06:10
NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman with his family on the day of the Democratic primary over the summer. Photo via Goldman’s Twitter A Race To The Finish After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 05:08
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio at a briefing at City Hall on Monday, August 2, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. De Blasio Heads to Harvard as a Teaching Fellow Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools... News 30 Aug 2022 | 10:11
Daniel Goldman with his family on election day. Photo via Goldman’s Twitter What Started With A Dozen Democrats Ended With (Almost) One One of New York’s most highly-anticipated Democratic primary races — featuring a field of a dozen candidates vying for a... News 26 Aug 2022 | 03:04
NY-10 candidates from left to right: Yuh-Line Niou, Mondaire Jones, Jo Anne Simon, Carlina Rivera, Elizabeth Holtzman, Daniel Goldman. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An NY-10 Debate Bursting At The Seams A two-hour debate between six candidates in the newly-drawn 10th Congressional District on Wednesday evening felt as if it... News 12 Aug 2022 | 01:29
Carlina Rivera (center) campaigning. Photo courtesy of Carlina Rivera’s campaign Who’s Who in NY-10 As the city’s second summer primary on August 23 hurdles into focus, the field for Congress in Downtown’s NY-10 remains overwhelmingly... News 04 Aug 2022 | 12:24
NYS Assembly District 73 candidate Russell Squire (left), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (second from left), Governor Kathy Hochul (center), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (second from right) and District 76 Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (right) on the campaign trail on the morning of the primary at East 86th Street and Second Avenue. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Seawright’s campaign Where Were the Voters? New York’s first of two summer primary elections drew to a close on Tuesday night, after a long — but extremely low-turnout... News 30 Jun 2022 | 05:46