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2 NYC mayoral candidates completely flub question on price of Brooklyn housing In their New York City mayoral endorsement interviews, published Monday by The New York Times, Democratic candidates Shaun Donovan and Ray McGuire dramatically underestimated the cost of homes in the city. When asked the median sales price for a house or apartment in Brooklyn, McGuire, a former Citigroup vice chairman and Wall Street executive responded, "Its got to be somewhere in the $80,000 to $90,000 range, if n...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Equinor Eric Adams is a leading Democratic contender for New York City mayor, but here’s a moderately-known fact: He used to ...

· May 12, 2021 @11:59 AM Prior to its endorsement Monday of Kathryn Garcia for New York City mayor, the New York Times editorial board interviewed eight candidates running in the citys June 22 Democratic mayoral primary. Mara Gay, a member of the editorial board, closed out each endorsement interview with a pop quiz, including several questions about the high cost of owning or renting a home in the city. After the Times published the interviews in full Monday, several candidates answers to one...

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NYPD hunting for Times Square gunman who was aiming for brother By Kayla Mamelak and FOX 5 NY Staff Published  The NYPD is looking for the gunman who opened fire in Times Square, wounding three bystanders. NEW YORK - An intense manhunt was underway Monday for the suspect in a triple shooting in Times Square. The gunman was reportedly trying to shoot his brother when he injured two women and a young girl. Amid a frantic stampede of tourists, a gut-wrenching video captures an NYPD officer runnin...

De Blasio unclear on fall remote option for schools 05/10/2021 10:00 AM EDT Editor’s Note: Weekly New York Education is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily New York Education newsletter. POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform that combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the New York Education newsletter. We take a look at the week ahead a...

SHARE: Every eight years, New York City has its own version of a political Olympics. Many municipal elected officials face term limits, forcing them from posts they’d rather cling to forever. The mayor, the city comptroller, the public advocate, the borough presidents and a majority of the City Council are usually ejected from their offices, and a huge crop of newcomers runs to replace them.  This year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Comptroller Scott Stringer are term-limited, as are the pre...

* * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Biden Administration HHS tries to put Fauci’s toothpaste back in the tube: .@SecBecerra: "We still want you to be as safe as possible. Thats why the indoor policy should still be...

Less than two weeks after a former volunteer on a past campaign accused him of sexual harassment, Scott Stringer, one of the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, is being buoyed up by some of his most ardent Jewish supporters. Outside Fairway Market on the Upper West Side Sunday, flanked by Congressman Jerry Nadler, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, Ruth Messinger, former borough president; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Stringer said he’s confi...