Below are the answers by Brad Lander, the city comptroller and former Brooklyn councilman. Known for his work on progressive ...

Below are the answers by Zellnor Myrie, a state senator who represents Brooklyn neighborhoods including Crown Heights and ...

In the space of two weeks, two of the pro-Palestinian singer’s concerts were cancelled in a brazen attack on freedom of ...

Total crime has increased every year under Adams — a former police captain who ran for mayor on a promise to curb lawlessness ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...

Leo XIV succeeds Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday. Francis made history in his own right as the first ...

Keeping a pro-Palestinian puppet on display is different because that is ‘art,’ the mayor says.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A $32 million investment and expanded cleaning hours at parks in the five boroughs could see a cleaner ...

As of now, the city law, passed in 2019 under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, mandates that Rikers be closed by 2027 and replaced by borough-based jails. Adams has been slammed for “abandoning” the plan.

Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders ...

Police have said at least 80 people were taken into custody after they occupied part of Columbia University's main library in ...

The City of Syracuse may end up $30 million short on a promise to revitalize the old 15th Ward as Republicans in Washington ...