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A new, digital Green Book for NYC
New York City’s Green Book has gone digital. The city announced today an updated online edition of its widely used directory of city, state and county agencies. Its the first time the directory has...
View ArticleNYC Council wants banks to detail efforts in communities
The City Council plans to vote on legislation that would require banks that receive billions in municipal funds to release information on their lending practices in struggling neighborhoods. The bill...
View ArticleJudge grants class-action status to stop-and-frisk lawsuit
A federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging the New York Police Department has improperly targeted blacks and Hispanics with its stop-and-frisk crime reduction program. U.S....
View ArticleNYPD stop-and-frisk procedures modified
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he has instituted a new procedure to regulate how street stop-and-frisk encounters by patrol officers are monitored and supervised. In a letter sent...
View ArticleCornell tech school to be housed temporarily at Google NY
Cornell University’s new tech school will be housed at Google’s New York headquarters while its permanent campus on Roosevelt Island is under construction. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced during a...
View ArticleCity lawmakers propose NYPD inspector general
Lawmakers have introduced legislation into the City Council that would create an inspector general with subpoena powers over the nation’s largest police department. With criticism mounting daily on the...
View ArticleCuomo's ed reform commission meets for first time
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s newly created New York Education Reform Commission met for the first time in Manhattan yesterday to discuss its agenda, though little of substance emerged from the meeting....
View ArticleCity Council to adopt budget, override mayoral vetoes
The City Council is expected to adopt a $68.5 billion budget at today’s stated meeting that preserves funding for child care and after school programs, while at the same time raising no new taxes. But...
View ArticleAppeals court strikes down NY taxi decision
A federal appeals court says New York City doesn’t have to require its fleet of licensed yellow taxis be wheelchair accessible, reversing an earlier ruling and upsetting disability advocates. The court...
View ArticleTop Senate Democrats slam DEC on fracking regs release
Top state Senate Democrats have called on the Department of Environmental Conservation to explain why it shared details about proposed regulations for hydrofracking with representatives of the national...
View ArticleState Board of Elections gives city counterpart more encouragement
All four commissioners of the state Board of Elections now say the city can change election night voting procedures without a change in state law. Here’s the letter the NYBOE sent today. It’s an...
View ArticleCity BOE agrees to use modern tech for tallying votes
Unofficial election night results will now be read from portable memory devices at police precincts, rather than off strips of paper, after a unanimous decision by the city’s Board of Elections earlier...
View ArticleBike Share Delayed, Software Blamed
NEW YORK The much-touted bike share program that some speculated would transform public transit in New York City has been delayed until March 2013. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says bugs with the software...
View ArticleThe Fallout from the Assembly Scandal
The New York Post is reporting that the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has launched an investigation into the secret taxpayer-funded settlement of the sexual harassment complaint against Assemblyman...
View ArticleSanders: Quinn Should Bring Paid Sick Leave to Vote
New York City Councilman James Sanders Jr. is imploring Speaker Christine Quinn to bring a stalled paid sick leave bill to a vote. “There is nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come,”...
View ArticleLet the Battle of Maps Begin
Deliberations over how the New York City Council’s district lines will be drawn for the next decade is getting communities and advocacy organizations into a map-making mood. One coalition of civil...
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