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At Mayoral Forum Hosted By Teachers Union, Yang Faces Heat From Rivals And UFT Head arrow Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock During a rare in-person mayoral forum on Wednesday, frontrunner Andrew Yang was forced to explain to a roomful of public school educators remarks he made last month in which he blamed the teachers union for holding back the full reopening of city schools during the ongoing ...

N.Y. Bonds Keep Bargain Level as Millionaire Tax Hike Nears Bloomberg 4 hrs ago © Bloomberg A pedestrian walks through Main Street Park in Brooklyn. (Bloomberg) -- New York is about to test a bedrock principle on Wall Street -- that higher taxes drive up the value of municipal bonds. Popular Searches Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers struck a tentative deal Monday to raise taxes on some of the richest New Yorkers to the highest in the U.S., promising to make the tax-shelter provided by t...

UpdatedWed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:13 am ET Reply Council Member Costa Constantinides announced that his second-ranked vote for mayor will go to Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. He already endorsed Comptroller Scott Stringer as his first vote in 2020. ((Lindsey Green)) ASTORIA, QUEENS — After endorsing Comptroller Scott Stringers mayoral bid at the end of 2020, Queens city council member Costa Constantinides announced Tuesday that his second vote will go to former Department o...

Current frontrunner Andrew Yang is peddling a localized version of the universal basic income that catapulted him from nobody to presidential contender in 2020. For Kathryn Garcia, the former New York sanitation czar, it’s all about the environment — electrifying city buses and building out 250 miles of protected bike lanes, among other policies. But one candidate — perhaps more than any other — is looking abroad for inspiration: more specifically to Europe. Scott Stringer, the curren...

De Blasio Plans To Open All NYC Public Beaches Starting Memorial Day Weekend arrow John Del Signore / Gothamist The countdown to summer has officially begun: Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that all eight NYC public beaches maintained by the city Parks Department will be open for swimming starting Memorial Day Weekend, and all 48 public pools will be open as of June 26th. "Grab your towel and pack your sunscreen because summer is just around the corner and our be...

SHARE: When the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club held the inaugural Zoom forum for mayoral candidates in October, some 1,400 viewers turned in to watch as candidates outlined their visions for governing New York City and saying whether they had smoked marijuana. But nearly six months later, many Democratic mayoral candidates have participated in more than 50 Zoom forums. And as the attendance at many of these forums has waned, so has candidates’ interest in attending them, a sign that the ...

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. It was only a matter of time. Council Member Brad Lander and Speaker Corey Johnson are going at it as the two city lawmakers vie for the...

Updated 04/06/2021 04:45 PM EDT 2021-04-06T04:45-0400 As one mayoral candidateattended the nationally televised trial about police misconduct in Minneapolis today, another stayed in town to roll out a plan for boosting the NYPD amid a spike in gun violence. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who retired as an NYPD captain in 2006 to run for the state Senate, said his opponents are avoiding a discussion of the increase in crime across the five boroughs — something voters have been citing ...

Mayoral Candidate Scott Stringer Proposes Entertainment Vouchers For Vaccinated New Yorkers arrow Pedestrians walking outside an outdoor restaurant in Brooklyn. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer is proposing to jolt the citys recovery with a $50 million plan that would give transit and small business vouchers to all vaccinated New Yorkers. Dubbed "VaxPacks," the program could include redeemable vouchers for a two-trip MetroCard; $20 to use at loca...

Does Zoning Create a Vicious Circle—Or Can It Fix Itself? Ideally, planners could balance homeowners interests in zoning against the public good, liberalizing zoning when prices got too high. But this may be politically impossible. Share As I and many others have argued (both in Planetizen and elsewhere) existing zoning increases housing costs and accelerates suburban sprawl by restricting the housing supply available in close-in, walkable neighborhoods. It could be argued, however, that pl...