Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she sees “no reason” to remove Senator Luis Sepúlveda as judiciary chair.
The Carlyle Group’s effort to buy up rental housing has gotten a $578 million boost from the city and state.
One expert called Senator Luis Sepúlveda’s record of missed deadlines, incorrect paperwork, and no-shows “professional negligence.”
The governor, Senate, and Assembly all have different ideas for how to implement this year’s increases for human services contracts.
It remains to be seen whether the Assembly will get on board.
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to unveil property tax reforms, he must weigh a plan he inherited from his predecessor.
The threat of a new appeals board pushed Vickie Paladino to approve a new development.
New York environmental regulators have deemed a developer liable for an $18 million Westchester cleanup — but they haven’t yet made the company pay.
New York Focus identified more than a thousand cases where a disputed interest formula increased a home’s bidding price at auction, allowing a bank to obtain it for a pittance.
Vornado Realty Trust has a stake in Halmar’s proposal to rebuild the Manhattan rail hub.
The proposal follows a New York Focus and ProPublica investigation that found counties had placed thousands of adults and children in often-dilapidated hotels as the main response to homelessness.
A sweeping child care expansion and opposition to President Trump have united them, but significant divisions remain.
Here’s what our reporters will be watching for during Governor Kathy Hochul’s agenda-setting address that will kick off state budget negotiations.
Drug policy advocates are calling a new reporting mandate a missed opportunity for needed transparency and sustained action.
In response to reporting by New York Focus and Gothamist, State Senator Zellnor Myrie has introduced a bill to standardize debt calculations.
An investigation by New York Focus and Gothamist found lenders are using a disputed method of calculating debts in thousands of foreclosures and taking money from hundreds of former homeowners.
The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD’s use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to New York Focus’s reporting.
“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.
The New York City mayor made the claim during a press conference in late July.
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.