3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (272+ words) New York City Council Reporters question New York City mayoral candidates Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani in 2025. Jeff Coltin New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin is backing a new bill aimed at reforming the press credentialing process, potentially making…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (751+ words) New York City has employment and climate change problems, and we have spent years treating them as separate emergencies with siloed budgets. But they are not. The work of making our buildings more efficient and our neighborhoods more resilient is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (307+ words) Harry Nespoli, who led the Municipal Labor Committee, retired last year after five decades with the New York City Department of Sanitation. Courtesy Teamsters Joint Council 16 How has the labor movement in New York evolved over the past 20 years? How…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (460+ words) This is State Fair Director Julie LaFave’s third year running the show. Kate Lisa / City & State New York The Great New York State Fair has been a summer tradition since before the Civil War, and the agricultural spectacle continues to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (170+ words) The capabilities of artificial intelligence have grown leaps and bounds in three years. But in the three years since state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found “incomplete and ad hoc approaches” to AI governance in New York City agencies, progress on filling…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (212+ words) Everybody wanted to grab Zohran Mamdani’s ear at Somos. They still do. Jeff Coltin There’s an art to deciding when to pursue a story, and when to publish. I was thinking about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s relationship with…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (455+ words) Safe Horizon’s Streetwork Project recently celebrated the reopening of its drop-in center after renovations. Safe Horizon I've been working in runaway and homeless youth services long enough to know that the young men who come through our doors rarely announce…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (245+ words) Julio Peña III, a district leader who could be the new leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Emily Assiran District Leaders aligned with Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn are pressuring an insurgent, reformer faction of the party to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (434+ words) A night at the museum F. M. Kearney/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images By Ken Weine and David Woloch Access to museums is also limited. The buildings that house many of the world’s greatest museums are owned by…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (151+ words) From left, Senior City Hall Reporter Sahalie Donaldson, City Editor Annie McDonough and City Hall Reporter Shenal Tissera Emily Assiran and Sam Zambrano Like me, so many of our readers wake up with City & State’s First Read newsletter. And now,…...