Policy & Government

Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, started her career as a tenant advocate in Williamsburg and at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Alongside Mayor Eric Adams, she celebrated the opening of two new playgrounds at the NYCHA Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights on Sunday.

The city is back from the throes of the pandemic, when homicides and shootings were much higher, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

The Youth Justice Innovation Fund will provide funding to community-based organizations for youth development and the prevention of youth arrest and incarceration.

The “Elyjha Chandler and Christian Perkins Swim for Life” swim lesson at Erasmus Hall Educational Campus in Flatbush is part of the city's effort to expand free swim safety classes to 18,000 second graders.

Maya Roytlender, while working as an office manager for D. Malek Realty, LLC, allegedly orchestrated a scheme in which fraudulent payroll checks totaling $1.1 million were deposited into various accounts, according to prosecutors.

The Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP) will add 4,600 new housing units in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Four children from Brownsville, Canarsie and Sunset Park are missing, the Gothamist reported.

Portions of East New York and Cypress Hills will get new parkland and open spaces under a City Hall initiative that looks to provide a green space within 10 minutes of a New Yorker's home.

Cecilia Gentili died on February 6, 2024 after using lethal drugs supplied by defendant Michael Kuilan, according to federal prosectors.

Citing testimony from tenants who said they are not keeping up with the rising cost of living, the Rent Guidelines Board revised the potential range of rent increases on two-year leases for rent-stabilized apartments.