NY cracks down on unlicensed contractors
New York authorities say they’ve concluded a massive effort to crack down on unlicensed home improvement contractors. They’ve... Read more »
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More City Residents Have Trouble Affording Food
About 3.1 million New Yorkers are said to have trouble affording food, revealing a sharp increase in recent years, according to... Read more »
Water Board Approves 14.5 Percent Rate Hike
The city water board approved a 14.5 percent rate hike this morning – the second double digit increase in the last year. The... Read more »
Study Finds No Evidence of Risk in Synthetic Turf
A draft report conducted on behalf of the Bloomberg administration says that there is no scientific evidence that synthetic turf... Read more »
Parents say NYC public schools overcrowded
Parents and public officials are warning that schools in some city neighborhoods are overcrowded, because a jump in residential... Read more »
City To Grant Permits To 1,000 Fruit, Vegetable Vendors
The city will grant permits to 1,000 street vendors who sell fruits and vegetables, according to legislation passed yesterday... Read more »
Council Members Renew Call For City To Fill Potholes Pronto
Some City Council members are once again looking to reduce the number of potholes... Read more »
State Breathes New Life Into NYRA
The New York Racing Association will continue to operate the Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga race tracks for another 25 years... Read more »
Traffic Panel Members Expect to Endorse Fees on Cars
The state commission studying ways to reduce traffic in Manhattan is likely to recommend that lawmakers approve a slimmed-down... Read more »
Lester Freeman drops out of 21st Congressional District race
The race to replace Democrat Michael McNulty in the 21st Congressional District race has another casualty. Democrat Lester Freeman, the only black candidate in the... Read more »
All-nighter helps Con Edison, union avert heat wave walkoutCon Edison’s 9,000 union employees are staying on the job after all-night talks produced a new contract Wednesday and removed the threat of a strike during... Read more »
Former Assemb. McLaughlin pours himself into new lifeFormer Assemb. Brian McLaughlin’s federal indictment in October 2006 covered 186 pages and described a web of corrupt acts including bribery, embezzlement,... Read more »
Golisano’s money, power could be spread aroundSenate Democrats salivating over the idea of Rochester-area billionaire Tom Golisano dishing out millions of dollars for their campaigns in November may want to... Read more »
Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut CongestionSoaring gas prices and higher tolls seem to be doing for traffic in New York what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious congestion pricing was supposed to do:... Read more »
43RD SENATE DISTRICT : McDonald announces Senate runAssemblyman Roy McDonald, RSaratoga, formally announced his campaign for state Senate Wednesday, while a rival for the Republican nomination, Ray Seney, blasted... Read more »
Upstate Billionaire Tom Golisano may aid DemsRochester billionaire Tom Golisano plans to make a “major announcement” next week about his involvement in this year’s elections, an aide said... Read more »
Clinton to make upstate NY appearancesFresh off the campaign trial, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is logging miles again in upstate New York. Clinton is scheduled Wednesday to talk about alternative energy... Read more »
Utility union: Tentative deal with Con Ed in New York CityConsolidated Edison and a union representing nearly 9,000 of the utility’s workers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday after “extremely contentious”... Read more »
Republicans Scramble to Choose a CandidateThese are tense days for Republican officials on Staten Island. For the last few days, party leaders and elected officials have been calling each other in a frenzied... Read more »
Union Fears the Loss of High Pay and Solid Benefits, Once Virtual Givens at Con EdLast year, Con Edison officials said, the company sifted through 68,000 job applications to hire 1,314 new workers. So far in 2008, the utility has picked up 528... Read more »
Dennis Gallagher Faces Civil Suit for Sex Abuse chargesA woman has filed a civil suit against the former Queens City councilman who admitted to sexually abusing her before giving up his seat in March. The 52-year-old... Read more »
Tax-exempt aid for new Yankee Stadium raises questions
More than two years ago, New York City and its Major League Baseball teams seized upon an innovative way to use tax-exempt bonds to help fund construction of the... Read more »
Drivers’ Strike Stalls New York City ConstructionMost of New York City’s largest construction projects ground to a halt or near-halt on Tuesday because of an unanticipated strike by more than 400 cement-truck... Read more »
Paterson Finds State of Ground Zero Rebuilding “Unacceptable”Governor David Paterson, says the lack of progress at the site of the former World Trade Center Towers is “unacceptable” and that he intends to fix the... Read more »
Community Votes in Favor of Willets Point DevelopmentA plan to turn the gritty Willets Point neighborhood near Shea Stadium into a development that includes housing, a hotel, retail space and a convention center got... Read more »
Deutsche Bank demolition will cost more, take longer than expectedTaxpayers will have to cough up an extra $37.5 million to demolish the deadly Deutsche Bank building near Ground Zero. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. board... Read more »
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Vito Fossella will not seek re-election
A Former SI GOP Lawmaker Wants to Replace Fosella Seat
An ex-Staten Island GOP lawmaker is seeking to replace scandal-scarred Vito Fossella as his district’s next congressman. Former... Read more »
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Paterson Signals He’d Fight a Bloomberg Challenge
If Mayor Bloomberg decides to run for governor in 2010, Governor Paterson would confront him head-on despite what would seem to... Read more »
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