Policy & Government

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.

A new City Council bill would modernize the Third Party Transfer program to focus on the "worst-of-the-worst landlords," Gothamist reported.

Police officers responded to a 911 call at about 2:05pm and found a 30-year-old female shot in front of 445 Albee Square, according to the police.

Khyle Williams allegedly would meet his customers in a car in Flatbush to make his sales, typically selling guns for $800 - $1,100, a joint investigation by the New York Attorney General's Office, Police Department and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found.

Sorffly Davius, who had worked out of the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant since 2014, died on Friday as a result of a medical episode while deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Epic Fury.

A new report from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli examines post-COVID shifts in New York’s prison population, highlighting the growing share of incarcerated people age 50 and older.