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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.
The City Planning Commission last week started the approval process for the rezoning of Brooklyn’s once industrial and still polluted Gowanus neighborhood in a bid to spur the building of 8,000 new apartments along with shops and parks.
The commission is soon expected to give a similar go-ahead to a proposal to rezone SoHo and NoHo to authorize 3,200 new housing units in Lower Manhattan as well as overhaul a cumbersome process for approval of retail stores.
Meanwhile, also wending through the approval process is a plan to rebuild the New York City Blood Center on East 67th Street to allow the organization to expand its ability to do research and to create a hub for other life science efforts in the heart of the city’s key medical complex.
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Eric Adams returned again to his native Queens today, locking up two more endorsements in a borough that could make or break his mayoral campaign.
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. and Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato backed Adams today during an event in Rockaway Beach another notch on a Queens endorsement belt that already includes a slew of elected officials, particularly in voter-rich Southeast Queens where Adams recently opened a new campaign headquarters.
politics Sep 25, 2020
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said Thursday he will not run to replace Bill de Blasio as mayor in 2021, revealing an ongoing battle with depression as part of a candid and transparent statement on his campaign. Johnson, a Democrat first elected to City Council as a representative for the 3rd District in 2013 who has held the… politics Sep 9, 2020
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The fallout from sexual harassment allegations leveled against Scott Stringer continued to reshape the New York City mayor’s race today, with the candidate projecting confidence even as he is losing support and facing more calls to drop out ahead of the June primary.