NYC Could Ban Gas in New Buildings This Year
The fight heated up at a hearing Wednesday, with debate centered on when, not if, a gas ban should go into effect.
The police department’s PR team has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.
The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
New York Focus was on the scene as cops shoved, kettled, and chased students at City College, the second campus where the NYPD razed a Gaza solidarity encampment Tuesday.
State lawmakers are set to introduce a sweeping proposal for a public takeover of Central Hudson, the region’s scandal-plagued gas and electric utility.
The Assembly rejected legislation that would have sped up New York’s transition away from gas.
The Assembly and Senate want to beef up labor standards and farmland protections for clean energy projects. Developers say that would slow down the energy transition.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.
It’s the first step New York has taken to address its housing shortage in years — but tenant groups are fuming and real estate wants more.
As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.