The fight over the future of the city’s rent stabilization laws hit the streets.
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Politics
Lower Manhattan booms with business and tourism
Anchored by the opening of the World Trade Center, downtown Manhattan is a new hotspot for tourism, commercial and residential.
NYC styrofoam ban targeted by restaurant group
The city’s restaurants want to stop Mayor de Blasio’s plan to ban lightweight plastics.
More than 100 arrested as NY rally in solidarity with Baltimore
The rallies made in solidarity with Freddie Gray supporters got aggressive.
New York exceeds California in startup funding applications: Report
The city’s tech industry is giving the west coast a run for its money.
NYC’s LGBT activists weigh in SCOTUS hearings
The city’s LGBT community hopes it can set an example for the courts.
Diverse group of NYC judges to be sworn in by mayor
A new set of New York jurors are the most diverse group to take the benches,
De Blasio to propose drastic waste reduction plan for NYC: report
The mayor set out his plans to make the city greener as environmental groups push for him act on his proposals.
NYC’s micro apartments push the limits of downsized living
A city plan aims to fight the affordable housing issue with a tiny solution.
Fast Food workers rally for $15/hour minimum wage
Thousands of New Yorkers hit the streets demanding that companies pledge to adopt more modern salaries to their workers.
NYC Council to push Congress to renew Zadroga 9/11 Health Act
The city council says Washington can’t let the thousands of affected first responders and civilians down.
Pommes Frites, destroyed in E. Village blast, may get new spot
A financial help group is helping out the moms and pops affected by the Second Ave. explosion.
New York Fashion Week has two new locations
Fashion Week will now take up hip spaces in the West Side and SoHo.
Council unveils plans to increase digital engagement
The city will be taking more steps to increase its digital transparency.
Council to push mayor to fund 1,000 more cops in budget
Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito will push to get more cops on the streets.
Activists urge governor, mayor to fight NYC homeless crisis
A group of activists sent the mayor and governor a list of solutions to the city’s growing homeless problem.
Beautification projects aim to brighten NYC
The city’s public and private groups have worked to give parts of New York a spruce job.
Cuomo, de Blasio ban official travel to Indiana
New York’s mayor and governor sent a message to Indiana following their controversial law.
Missing men’s bodies found in wreckage at E. Village explosion site
First responders made a grim discovery after a weekend of salvaging the site of the blast.
NYC a leader in closing the tech gender gap
The gender gap in the tech industry is huge across the nation, but the city’s public, private and academic entities are working hard to change that.