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Andrew Yang Gets $3.7 Million in NYC Election Public Matching Funds Bloomberg 1 day ago Martin Z. Braun (Bloomberg) -- New York City has doled out almost $22 million in matching funds to six candidates running for mayor, breaking a record set in 2013. Former U.S. presidential hopeful Andrew Yang collected $3.7 million in matching funds from New York City’s campaign finance board, in an installment distributed today. That’s the most among Democratic mayoral contenders, as he benefits from an influx of small contributions. Kathryn Garcia, the city’s former sanitation com...

Can New York’s Progressives Stop Andrew Yang? SINCE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ousted Joe Crowley in the June 2018 congressional Democratic primary, New York’s progressives have been steadily accruing electoral power. Several months later, a cohort of left-leaning candidates, backed by the Working Families Party (WFP), unseated a group of Democratic state legislators who had caucused with Republicans in Albany, while Julia Salazar, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), defeated eight-term-incumbent Martin Dilan in a race for a State Senate seat in Brooklyn. Last June, Jama...

If he expects flooding, he rolls up the downstairs rugs and takes his valuables upstairs. “That’s just life in Broad Channel,” he said. “If you want to live close to water, you just pay attention.” The extra attention is worth it to Riepe, who serves as the Jamaica Bay guardian for the American Littoral Society, a marine conservation group. He loves to take his boat out on the water, surrounded by the marsh with the city skyline visible on clear days. When he rebuilt his house after Superstorm Sandy, he put the electrical outlets four feet off the floor. If another storm hits and d...

Ramadan observances begin for Muslims; new food program introduced in NYC

Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang drew heavy fire for tweeting: “You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors.”