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Many Brooklyn and Queens leaders and residents cheer Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to bring mass transit service to an existing freight line linking the boroughs. So far, pols who’ve pushed back on train plans have remained mum.
Print Continue to article content New York City Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang answers questions from reporters during a rally at City Hall Park in Manhattan. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Rival Satmar sects join forces to back Yang first, Adams second By HANNAH DREYFUS Updated Brooklyn’s two competing Satmar Hasidic sects are uniting to endorse Andrew Yang for New York City mayor, according to two sources familiar with the decision. An ad is expected to run on Wednesday in several Yiddish newspapers that will list Yang as the community’s first choice for mayor, followed by Brookl...
David Weprin, a state assemblyman from Queens, unveiled a bill Thursday that would require cash bail for suspects arrested and charged with hate crimes. The measure, he says, will help combat an alarming rise in antisemitic and anti-Asian incidents across New York City. It also comes at a time of increasing violent attacks against Jews in New York, Los Angeles and other American cities in wake of violence between Israel and Hamas, the worst fighting since the 2014 war in Gaza. The bill seeks to tweak the state’s new bail reform law that eliminates cash bail for those accused of committing m...
POLITICO Yang close to winning support of New York’s powerful Orthodox leaders The leading mayoral candidate is expected to soon win an endorsement from the Satmar rabbis in Williamsburg, the city’s most populous Hasidic neighborhood. New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang speaks to members of the media on April 05, 2021 in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images By HANNAH DREYFUS Link Copied NEW YORK — Andrew Yang is close to locking down almost universal support among leaders of New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community — a loyal bloc of voters that can make or break a ...