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Andrew Yang Gets $3.7 Million in NYC Election Public Matching Funds Bloomberg 1 day ago Martin Z. Braun (Bloomberg) -- New York City has doled out almost $22 million in matching funds to six candidates running for mayor, breaking a record set in 2013. Former U.S. presidential hopeful Andrew Yang collected $3.7 million in matching funds from New York City’s campaign finance board, in an installment distributed today. That’s the most among Democratic mayoral contenders, as h...

Can New York’s Progressives Stop Andrew Yang? SINCE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ousted Joe Crowley in the June 2018 congressional Democratic primary, New York’s progressives have been steadily accruing electoral power. Several months later, a cohort of left-leaning candidates, backed by the Working Families Party (WFP), unseated a group of Democratic state legislators who had caucused with Republicans in Albany, while Julia Salazar, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), defea...

If he expects flooding, he rolls up the downstairs rugs and takes his valuables upstairs. “That’s just life in Broad Channel,” he said. “If you want to live close to water, you just pay attention.” The extra attention is worth it to Riepe, who serves as the Jamaica Bay guardian for the American Littoral Society, a marine conservation group. He loves to take his boat out on the water, surrounded by the marsh with the city skyline visible on clear days. When he rebuilt his house after ...

Ramadan observances begin for Muslims; new food program introduced in NYC

Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang drew heavy fire for tweeting: “You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors.”

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 2nd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 20 billion cubic feet to 1,784 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 235 billion cubic feet, or 11.6% below the 2,019 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 2nd of last year, and 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.3% below the five-year average of 1,808 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been...

Stringer helps organize Ramadan food bank to provide access to free halal meals Updated 2:15 PM; Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A city-wide food bank program will offer free access to halal meals for the holy month of Ramadan, including at a site in New Brighton. City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who is also running for mayor, organized the program in partnership with local elected officials, Muslim community leaders, and hunger relief organizations, according to a media release from St...

NYC mayoral candidates weigh in on changing unfair property tax system that burdens poor and middle-class neighborhoods Shant Shahrigian, Michael Gartland © He, Gary Brownstones on Greene Ave. in Brooklyn. Depending on your zip code, you may pay far more, or far less, for a home than someone with a similar dwelling in a different part of town. For years, New York City’s property tax system has come under fire because homeowners in poor and middle-class neighborhoods often p...

Will pop-up Dumpster pools return to NYC streets this summer? By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  article Dumpsters repurposed as mini-pools on Park Avenue during Summer Streets in August 2010. (Courtesy of NYC Transportation Department) NEW YORK -  One candidate for mayor wants to win the hearts and minds of New Yorkers by giving fun, quirky things to do in the streets: like go for a dip inside a Dumpster. City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a plan for what he calls Summer in the City, which...

Photo Courtesy of Andrew Cashin/MTA Comptroller Stringer is urging the MTA to ensure that the contractors providing subway cleaning services are paying prevailing wages and benefits to their employees. By Michael V. Cusenza City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently sent a letter to Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman & CEO Patrick Foye urging the MTA to ensure that the contractors providing subway cleaning services are paying prevailing wages and benefits to their employees. Highli...