New York City got a new mayor, comptroller and City Council while Boston and Pittsburgh elected mayors. In New Jersey, final results in the gubernatorial election were still too close to call.
Council members clash with NYPD brass on budget, overtime pay By Ari Ephraim Feldman New York City PUBLISHED 5:00 PM ET May. 11, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:00 PM EDT May. 11, 2021
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The leadership of the New York City Police Department faced stiff questioning at a City Council budget hearing Tuesday over its handling of protests, overtime spending and an increase in shooting incidents, leading to angry outbursts from both council members and top NYPD brass.
In one tense exchange, the chair of the council’s finance committee, Daniel Dromm, reprimanded NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea for spending on overtime pay for officers. The department budgeted $240 million for overtime through the end of June, Dromm said, but had already spent $370 million, including on a large and much criticized response to racial justice protests last summ
NYCAN goes to the 1964 World s Fair Unisphere to make their point against Nuclear proliferation. Left to right: Christian Ciobanu, Linda Chapman, Seth Shelden, Robert Croonquist, Brendan Fay, Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton. (Image by Donna Aceto)
On Earth Day 2021, New Yorkers rally at the iconic Unisphere in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
Call for City Council to vote and pass nuclear disarmament legislation. Resolution 976 & Introduction 1621.
For Earth Day New York members of the New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (NYCAN) rallied at the iconic Unisphere in Flushing Meadows, Queens calling Speaker Corey Johnson and City Council to bring nuclear disarmament legislation Resolution 976 and Introduction 1621 to the floor for a vote.