After a long wait filled with many debates Gov. Kathy Hochul signed and approved a $229 billion state budget. But as expected there were compromises from all parties involved.
International Leadership Charter School has faced a backlash from the community along with vandalism of the construction of its new middle school. But now, the administration is slapping back, just days before another rally against them was scheduled.
The threat of a gas shutdown affecting 827 units at Amalgamated Housing Corp. has seemingly dissolved overnight. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Robert Jackson succeeded in nudging state housing officials to the table Friday, May 5 for a meeting with cooperators, Con Edison, and representatives from the city’s buildings department.
Several local groups and politicians have criticized the response of the New York Police Department and elected figures in the aftermath of the killing of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, who was choked to death last week by a 24-year-old former Marine on a Manhattan subway train.