Five years ago, New York proved how easy it is to shut down a city by decree. In mid-March 2020, under a state and local Covid-19 lockdown that lasted, in varying forms, until the summer of 2021, the ...

New York State hasn’t recovered all of the construction lobs it lost during the pandemic shutdown – partly because of less demand for office space, a new report released Thursday said. There is 16,300 ...

An analysis released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the majority of crimes the council tracks are ...

He subjected New York City to harsh austerity, starving public schools of funding, and cutting Medicaid multiple times, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested a federal takeover of New York City and Washington. The comments came when Trump, during a meeting of his Cabinet at the White House, was asked about ...

Thirty-three-year-old state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s momentous victory in the New York City mayoral primary over his chief rival, former governor Andrew M. Cuomo, has “ stunned ” New York’s ...

The race for New York City mayor is heating up on the last day of early voting. In-person early voters turned out in record numbers, with over 300,000 cast ballots as of Sunday morning, according ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old member of the state Assembly had a significant lead in the race Tuesday night.

On the cusp of choosing the city’s next mayor, New Yorkers are taking stock of their town. But many are split on whether it’s back on track, or off the rails.

During the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, which was the first time New York City used ranked-choice voting, a total of 942,031 votes were cast in the mayoral race, according to data from the New ...