Legislation/Policy

State Senator Brian A. Benjamin (D-Harlem, Upper West Side) sponsored S1137A on May 22, which mandates greater data collection and...

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen) and Councilmember Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Queens) joined legislators and restaurant owners in...

Though the coronavirus emergency threatened initial plans to legalize marijuana in New York State during the 2020 legislative session, a...

In a bipartisan victory, the Senate unanimously voted to pass the Never Again Education Act Wednesday. The act will fund...

The City Council yesterday passed a legislative package to give small businesses and restaurants a leg up as the city...

Assemblymember Harvey Epstein (D-Lower East Side, East Village, Murray Hill) has sponsored legislation that has long time co-op residents alarmed...

COVID-19, the pandemic that is still ravaging the planet, originated from wet markets in Wuhan. With this knowledge, Assemblymember Linda...

The Downtown Independent Democrats (DID) aren't about to let social distancing guidelines prevent them from convening - or from maintaining...

Assemblymember Dan Quart (D-Murray Hill, Lenox Hill) still remembers a moment from a case he presided over three years ago...

Life has never been easy for longtime New York resident Rhonda Jackson. As a low-income New Yorker, Jackson had to...