state of the city
De Blasio touts drop in shootings around time two cops are shot
Mayor de Blasio spotlighted NYPD heroes Thursday night in an unusual nighttime State of the City speech in The Bronx, where he unveiled plans to create the nation’s first retirement-savings...
Melissa hops the turnstile
When Rudy Giuliani appointed Bill Bratton to head the police back in 1994, among the first moves the new commissioner made was to go after subway turnstile jumpers. For in...
Housing fantasies: The hole in de Blasio's 'big idea'
What a difference a year makes. In his State of the City speech Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio sounded like a different person from the guy who gave the speech a...
City-wide ferry service planned for 2017
Residents in some of the city’s most transit-starved neighborhoods may be commuting by boat — and at subway fare prices — if Mayor Bill de Blasio gets his way. The mayor announced...
Mayor arrives 35 minutes late for own State of City address
Can someone get this guy a watch? Chronically late Mayor de Blasio showed up 35 minutes after the scheduled start of his first State of the City speech on Monday....
De Blasio pushes for raise in city's minimum wage
Mayor de Blasio dropped another hot political potato in Gov. Cuomo’s lap Monday by announcing he’ll ask Albany for permission to raise the minimum wage for city businesses. “We want...