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The whole city will be up for grabs when New Yorkers head to the polls for the mayoral primary this month (yes: it’s this month!), but a few voter-rich areas are hotly sought after by the candidates. Our Sally Goldenberg takes a look this morning
The City Council introduced a measure that would effectively bar the use of natural gas or oil in any new building or property that undergoes a major renovation.
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Andrew Yang is selling himself as an ideas man.
But more than once now on the trail he’s offered up notions that landed with a deafening thud.
Transportation watchers we talked to said arguments against mayoral control of the city trains have only become more pronounced since the 2017 “Summer of Hell.” The idea was championed by Council Speaker Corey Johnson now running for city comptroller who was plotting his own mayoral run at the time.
New BOE Counsel is a Boundary Breaker and a Shrewd Political Choice
After a year in which both the BOE and the Brooklyn Democratic Party that partially controls it were pummelled with accusations of corruption and incompetence, Patel s appointment is seen as a broadly popular decision across the borough’s fractured political landscape.
Hemalee Patel at a political event in 2020. Liena Zagare/Bklyner
Last week, the city’s Board of Elections named Brooklyn attorney Hemalee Patel as its new General Counsel, replacing scandal-laden Steve Richman as the Board’s top lawyer.
The BOE’s appointment of Patel, a 20-year court system veteran who is the first South Asian woman to hold the role, was a win for those looking to elevate women of color in government. But the appointment was also notable because, after a year in which both the BOE and the Brooklyn Democratic Party that partially controls it were pummelled with accusations of corruption and incompetence, it represented a bro
Judge Katherine Levine (Levine via Facebook; Getty)
If a city agency makes a small change to its website, will a “usual Joe Schmo in Gowanus” know what that means?
That, more or less, was the subject of a nearly two-hour hearing Thursday on a lawsuit that seeks to stop the Brooklyn neighborhood’s rezoning from moving forward.
Kings County Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine didn’t rule on that issue directly, but agreed to partially lift a temporary restraining order on the rezoning, allowing the Department of City Planning to release the remainder of the proposal’s application.
She said she is “predisposed” to allow the application to be certified, which would officially kickstart the city’s public land-use review process, but called on the city to find ways to ensure more people have access to virtual hearings held as part of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. She floated the idea of installing public computers in the Park Slope Armory.