City Government News

The Dog Ate My Birth Certificate and Other Tales From the Real ID Rush

May 7, 2025, 5:10 a.m.May 7, 2025, 3:19 p.m.

Requests for vital records soared ahead of today’s deadline for engers to upgrade identification in order to board domestic flights.

Aging pipes were exposed while workers in the Financial District dug up part of the street.

Elections

Voter Guide: Ballot Question 5 Mandates More Detail for Budgeting on City Maintenance

Oct. 15, 2024, 9:29 p.m.Oct. 15, 2024, 9:29 p.m.

The question relates to how the city decides what needs fixing, and how much to spend to do so.

NYPD

Adams Taps Former FBI Official to Lead NYPD

Sept. 12, 2024, 6:58 p.m.Sept. 12, 2024, 7:21 p.m.

Thomas Donlon was named interim police commissioner a week after the FBI confiscated phones from the department’s outgoing leader, Edward Caban.

Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Director Tiffany Raspberry testifies at a City Council hearing about a new request form for legislators to speak with the mayor or mayoral agency.

Eric Adams

Council Challenges Adams Official in Charge of New Interagency Forms

May 1, 2024, 5:00 p.m.May 1, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Many legislators have been vocal in their opposition to the new online portal required to talk to the executive branch, but some say it’s appropriate payback for extra police paperwork.

How to New York

Who to Yell At: A New Yorker’s Guide on Who to Call to Get Local Problems Fixed

Jan. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 11, 2024, 2:59 p.m.

Whether you want to repair a broken mailbox, reserve public park space or get a new street tree planted, here’s how to be an effective squeaky wheel.

City Government

Department of Ignored: Agencies Refuse to Heed Hundreds of DOI Recommendations

Nov. 1, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 1, 2023, 9:03 a.m.

Nearly 500 Department of Investigation suggestions for improving agencies and protecting civil rights over the past decade got “accepted” but never implemented, its records show.

CUNY faculty union rally outside Baruch College for free in-state tuition.

Unions

City Workers Ditch Unions, Skip Dues, Following Supreme Court Ruling

Oct. 25, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 25, 2023, 11:30 a.m.

Payroll records show drops in hip following 2018’s Janus case, which allow workers to get union benefits without paying union dues.

Migrant Crisis

Hochul to NYC: State Won’t Force Upstate to Shelter Migrants

Aug. 24, 2023, 7:18 p.m.Aug. 24, 2023, 7:18 p.m.

City officials have been begging for a ‘statewide decompression’ strategy for months, but the governor rebuffed it Thursday.

City Government

Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info

Aug. 16, 2023, 9:07 p.m.Aug. 16, 2023, 9:07 p.m.

The city’s tax collection agency accidentally shared the home addresses, cell phone numbers and personal email addresses of more than 1,700 workers with all those employees.

City Government

The Dog Ate My Birth Certificate and Other Tales From the Real ID Rush

Voter Guide: Ballot Question 5 Mandates More Detail for Budgeting on City Maintenance

Adams Taps Former FBI Official to Lead NYPD

Council Challenges Adams Official in Charge of New Interagency Forms

Who to Yell At: A New Yorker’s Guide on Who to Call to Get Local Problems Fixed

Department of Ignored: Agencies Refuse to Heed Hundreds of DOI Recommendations

City Workers Ditch Unions, Skip Dues, Following Supreme Court Ruling

Hochul to NYC: State Won’t Force Upstate to Shelter Migrants

Finance Department Sent Every Employee Their Colleagues’ Personal Info

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