Policy & Government

City Council Member Julie Won is looking to replace Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, who in November announced that she was not going to seek re-election. 

A large power outage affected close to 2,000 ConEd customers in Park Slope and Boerum Hill on Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday morning, there were over 100 residents and businesses still out of power.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Emigrant Bank’s appeal, ending the bank and its mortgage company’s nearly 15-year effort to avoid accountability for predatory loans that targeted homeowners of color.

New York regulators approved new Con Edison rate hikes, raising electric bills by about 9% and gas bills by 6% over three years, according to The City.

New York’s 2025 income tax filing season began on Jan. 26, with an Apr. 15 deadline.

Just 5% of the $46 billion in city contracts and purchase orders were awarded to M/WBEs in fiscal year 2025, a new report found.

Black or Latino drivers made up over 84% of reported vehicle searches conducted by the NYPD from 2022 through September 2025, while less than 4% of vehicle searches targeted white drivers, a lawsuit alleges.

Ahead of the release of the preliminary city budget in February, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a $12 billion shortfall left by the previous administration has renewed his push to tax New York’s highest earners.

The School Construction Authority is scoping out a vacant lot and parking area at 7001 Avenue U for a possible high school, according to Pix 11 News.

A Brooklyn judge slashed the sentence for Nechemya Weberman to 18 years from 103 years after the defendant moved to have his sentence vacated because other defendants convicted of similar crimes get shorter sentences.