Policy & Government

Taylor Brown, currently an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General, was appointed as director, the first transgender person to lead a city office or agency.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has paused the city’s tax lien sale program while officials conduct a six-month review and consider replacing the controversial system, Gothamist reported.

Beginning at 6:00am, more than 80 DOT crews will be deployed across city streets and highways in all five boroughs to fix many of the potholes that appeared due to the snow.

Anthony Sims was convicted of the 1999 murder of Li Run Chen, a 28-year-old employee of Mr. Hing’s Kitchen in Bushwick. After spending more than two decades in prison, the New York Appellate Division vacated the conviction and ordered a new trial.

Assemblymember William Colton said his office was notified by the city on its plan to break ground this month on a men's homeless shelter on 86th Street and 25th Avenue, which sits on the border of Gravesend and Bensonhurst. 

Workers' rights advocates celebrated the introduction of the $30 for Our City Act, a new legislation from Brooklyn Council Member Sandy Nurse that looks to raise the minimum wage to $30 by 2030.

There are savings from debt service adjustments, reductions in long-standing agency vacancies that remain unfilled, and unrecognized interest earnings from entities such as the Retirees Health Benefits Trust and cash holdings, according to City Council Speaker Julie Menin.

Julio Sandoval, 34, of Cypress Hills, sped through an intersection, fatally striking a cyclist before fleeing the scene.

Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was settling in as a student at Brooklyn Frontiers High School when he was detained by federal immigration officials in August.

A wide swath of Brooklyn, from Downtown Brooklyn to Gerritsen Beach, will have additional 3-K seats in the 2026-2027 school year.