Policy & Government

This year's allocation-- the largest of its kind to be made by the city toward homeless services-- will be allocated every year beginning next fiscal year.

Ever since the Exonerated Five were interrogated as youth and coerced into false confessions more than 30 years ago, New York State has failed to curb deceptive interrogation tactics used by the police. 

State court officials say they’re investigating ‘serious misconduct,’ but the judge accuses them of retaliation.

The $2.1 million program will connect environmental science with social justice work in New York's Adirondack Park

In January, it was revealed that East New York, East Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Williamsburg were the BK neighborhoods with the highest crash numbers in 2021

The NY Attorney General reminds landlords: They cannot raise rents for 12 months, if they've accepted government assistance.

Overall, crime is up in Crown Heights, and in Brooklyn as a whole.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested after starting fire at Bushwick’s Rash Bar on Sunday, April 3

Librarians and teen volunteers spearhead books Unbanned Initiative to combat censorship across the country

A man possibly set off a smoke device at the 36th Street subway station before opening fire