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A Brooklyn Democrat city councilmember is facing bipartisan accusations of racism after making comments about an Italian landscaping company.

Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican and a member of the caucus, said he emailed the complaint to Councilman Kalman Yeger, the chairman of the Council’s Standards and Ethics Committee, and an attorney for the Council, on Thursday.

The uproar is rooted in a comment that Ossé, a Democrat who heads the Council’s Cultural Affairs Committee, made Monday about Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, a city contractor that had to cough up more than $1 million in restitution last year after being accused of fraud.

Rent hike were the highlight of a meeting for New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), which was interrupted by protesters

Police in New York City have met protests over Jordan Neely's chokehold death with a predictable response, including the arrest of a photojournalist.

Events from A Rising Tide mark Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the renovated Folger Shakespeare Library, and more news.

Brooklyn Councilman Chi Ossé, a progressive socialist politician known for "tax the rich" sloganeering, attended the ultra-exclusive MET Gala this week in a haute couture outfit.

Amid a raucous preliminary hearing repeatedly disrupted by protesters, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted to raise rents by as much as 5% next year, or 7% for two-year leases.

(From: L-R) Brice Gonzalez, Annie Gonzalez, Jesse Garcia and Hunter Jones in FLAMIN’ HOT (Photo: Emily Aragones, courtesy of Searchlight Pictures) Rooftop Films, the non-profit organization celebrated as New York City’s home for independent films and filmmakers, has announced the lineup for its annual Rooftop Films Summer Series, one of the longest running and largest…