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Andrew Yang returns to NYC mayoral campaign trail after kidney stone Andrew Yang returned to the mayoral campaign trail on Saturday after suffering a kidney stone. The leader in some polls of the crowded race spent the first part of the holiday weekend hopscotching across the outer boroughs looking to show he was raring to go after the health scare. © Luiz C. Ribeiro Andrew Yang returns to mayoral campaign trail after passing kidney stone. (File photo) Andrew Yang returns to mayoral campaign...

Andrew Yang Back Campaigning After Hospitalized for Kidney Stone Yang is leading most polls in the crowded race for the Democrats nomination for New York City mayor Published April 3, 2021 • Updated on April 3, 2021 at 12:43 pm NBC Universal, Inc. New York City mayoral frontrunner Andrew Yang has resumed campaigning a day after going to the hospital for a kidney stone. Yang’s campaign said that on Saturday he planned to visit an Easter egg hunt at the Queens County Farm and meet...

Rome: April has done its share of being the cruelest month: The Titanic chose this month to sink, Hitler to be born. It was not a good time for Lincoln to attend the theater, nor Jesus to amble in the gardens of Gethsemane. Chernobyl, Amritsar, crumbling San Francisco, blazing Notre Dame. And last April indeed made fools of us all.

Encouraging leaders of the city’s 76 Business Investment Districts to expand support for local arts and arts education Holding “the biggest festival the country has ever seen” once it is safe to do so, including “arts organizations from every borough”   Dianne Morales, 2021. Courtesy of Dianne Morales for NYC. “Dianne understands that NYC has lost nearly 35,000 jobs in the arts and culture industry since the pandemic began, which has devastated our economy and ravaged an industry...

arrow Alt-Erlaa, a social housing development in Vienna. Rob Schofield / Flickr The affordable housing crisis is expected to be one of the most pressing and difficult challenges facing the next mayor. In New York City, 42% of renters are rent-burdened, which means they pay more than 30% of their income toward rent. All of the leading democratic candidates have called for new strategies, but Dianne Morales has gone the farthest by proposing a fundamental shift in how the city views...

NYC mayoral candidate Stringer slams Yang over busway flip flop Michael Gartland , Tim Balk Mayoral candidate and City Comptroller Scott Stringer lashed out at rival Andrew Yang on Thursday with an accusation that Yang flip-flopped on his support of busways when he recently voiced concerns about one in Queens. Stringer, who’s been lagging behind Yang in recent polls, called the frontrunner out for putting “pandering over good policy” when it comes to lanes dedicated solely...

SHARE: This week marked the massive information dump the New York City Campaign Finance Board calls “the filing deadline.” There are enough tidbits and storylines to last us politicos two months until the next one on May 21, but here are 10 things that immediately stood out. Adams has the money With $7.6 million on hand, Eric Adams is the undisputed money king of the mayoral race. Scott Stringer is in a not-so-distant second with $6.85 million. Andrew Yang raised an impressive $2.14 million...

10 things to know about the latest filing This week marked the massive information dump the New York City Campaign Finance Board calls “the filing deadline.” There are enough tidbits and storylines to last us politicos two months until the next one on May 21, but here are 10 things that immediately stood out. Adams has the money With $7.6 million on hand, Eric Adams is the undisputed money king of the mayoral race. Scott Stringer is in a not-so-distant second with $6.85 million. And...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The NYPD is beefing up patrols across New York City in the wake of the deadly shooting at three spas in Georgia that left eight people dead. There are no specific threats, officials said, but the added patrols in Asian communities was being done out of an abundance of caution. "There is today a major deployment of NYPD counterterrorism forces in communities around the city," Mayor Bill de Blasio said. "Including some of most prominent Asian communities in Manhattan, Quee...

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