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With the announcement Friday of a $155 million investment in small businesses, including $5.5 million for workforce development programming, Mayor Bill de Blasio staked a foothold along a critical frontier in New York Citys pandemic recovery: preparing workers for the changing economy. The citys economy was devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the unemployment rate jumping fivefold to a high of over 20% last June. In-person jobs have contracted significantly, especially in hospitality, nig...

Published Apr 29, 2021   Updated Apr 29, 2021, 2:02 pm CDT The New York Police Department (NYPD) has announced that it plans to return its police robot dog after receiving significant pushback. Featured Video Hide In a statement on Wednesday, John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, revealed that the department would be canceling its $94,000 contract with robotic design company Boston Dynamics. Advertisem...

(Photo of C.H.O.M.P.S, not Digidog. If you have a thing for bad 80s movies, youll get the joke.) Sad, but inevitable. Police officers have unions. They have to be lynched in court. And then the defense witnesses and jurors have to be intimidated by lynch mobs organized by the media and a few billion-dollar think tanks. Robot dogs are much easier to take down. After prolonged negotiations, the thugs began releasing their hostages, but they demanded pizza. Unwilling to risk office...

New Yorkers no longer have a choice: We have to take Andrew Yang seriously. The Democratic primary for mayor is less than two months away and he’s leading the polls as the eight identifiable candidates begin to invade our lives with TV ads. Yang is winning mostly because of name recognition. He’s famous for being famous. Voters have no idea what he does for a living or what his skills are, but he has a following and he might win. It’s time to consider whether this smooth talker actually k...

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 Uber Driver Stories Scott Stringer is facing calls to drop out of the mayor’s race and One of Stringer’s biggest supporter...

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook PM 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 New Yorkers United for Justice The fallout from sexual harassment allegations leveled against Scott Stringer continued to re...

Stringer denies sex abuse allegations by woman saying he wants to set the record straight By Wire and Staff Report Published  Stringer appears at town hall Scott Stringer participated in a town hall for candidates running for mayor. He addressed the accusations of groping and harassment that a woman has made against him. NEW YORK - NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate Scott Stringer said the allegations by a former campaign volunteer of sexual abuse are untrue. "They are false allegations an...

POLITICO Get the POLITICO Nightly 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 BEFORE THE SPEECH — President Joe Biden is scheduled to give his first joint address to Congress at 9 p.m. ET tonight. Head t...

Woman accuses NYC mayoral candidate of sexual misconduct Follow Us Question of the Day Jean Kim, second from left, listens as her attorney Patricia Pastor, center, speaks to reporters during a news conference, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in New York. Kim, who once worked as an unpaid intern for City Comptroller Scott Stringer, a ... more > By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press - Wednesday...

Leading Hasidic sects in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood have endorsed Andrew Yang in New York City’s mayoral race, locking up a major voting bloc for the former Democratic presidential candidate as he tries to build a coalition that could propel him to City Hall. The endorsement is expected to run as a full-page ad in Yiddish-language weekly newspapers this weekend, signed by a coalition of Orthodox congregations calling itself “Borough Park United” that includes the Bobov, Belz, ...