In the midst of a persistent housing crisis, there are tens of thousands of rent-stabilized apartment units sitting vacant across New York City, as speculators and unscrupulous landlords contribute to ...

In the final days of the legislative session in Albany last week, the State Senate passed a bill that would expand healthcare access to hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers regardless of ...

The state budget approved last month gave the Battery Park City Authority the ability to raise an additional $1 billion in funding for resiliency projects that will protect the southern tip of ...

This week's report from the Office of the Inspector General of the NYPD (OIG), pointed out numerous irregularities in how the NYPD manages their Criminal Group or “gang” Database (CGD). While these ...

When New York ended its moratorium on evictions a year ago, many people—from tenants to housing advocates to the public at large—braced for mass eviction filings in housing courts. One year later, ...

February 2, 2023 - Max Politics Podcast: Borough President Mark Levine's Vision for Manhattan. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine joined the show to discuss his new State of the Borough speech ...

Gov. Hochul signs abortion rights legislation (photo: Governor's Office) Voters in the fall of 2024 will have a chance to enshrine civil rights protections for women, LGBTQ people, and abortion access ...

December 15, 2022 - Max Politics Podcast: Dan Doctoroff on the Plan for a 'New' New York. Dan Doctoroff, former deputy mayor and now co-chair of the 'New' New York panel assembled by Governor Hochul ...

New York State has made little progress bringing 1,000 shuttered psychiatric beds back into service after they were closed during the covid pandemic, raising questions about a signature element of the ...

A long-time UFT chapter leader I know used to joke, “There are two things wrong with our union—the leadership and the membership.” I’ve been very involved with the teachers union, both in opposition ...

Approximately 5.7 million New Yorkers across the state cast ballots in one of the closest races for governor in over two decades, according to unofficial 2022 election data. Some votes, especially ...

Voters across New York have approved $4.2 billion in state borrowing proposed by Governor Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature to pay for major projects environmentalists say are key to developing a ...