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Four out of five public housing residents were without heat at some point since October, the City Council revealed on Tuesday at a dramatic and bruising hearing about widespread heating [...]

Four years ago, spurred on by a newly elected mayor who ran on a progressive agenda, an insurgent group of like-minded reformers took control of the City Council, standing up [...]

Facing criticism over heating outages in public housing that have affected thousands of tenants this winter, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a proposal to spend [...]

A major donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded guilty to using campaign contributions as bribes to buy better treatment at City Hall -- and yet the mayor, who took [...]

A campaign donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio secretly pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery, admitting that he used his contributions to the mayor to try to win favorable [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced that New York City had filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers and distributors of opioid prescription drugs, joining a national campaign to hold [...]

In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that Mayor Bill de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a senior official at a city agency at the center of the [...]

Back in the heat of summer, when the nation's attention was on rioting white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Bill de Blasio declared that New York City would conduct a [...]

The newly elected City Council speaker, Corey D. Johnson, on Thursday accused New York City police officers and federal law enforcement agents of acting violently during an immigrant rights protest [...]

Seeking to position himself as a national leader against climate change, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a two-pronged attack against the fossil-fuel industry, including a vow that city [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio took the oath of office on Monday, a frigid New Year's Day, to begin his second and last term, with broad promises for building a fairer [...]

When Bill de Blasio was sworn in for his first term as mayor, before a crowd of thousands on Jan. 1, 2014, the event seemed like a political coronation, celebrating [...]

To regular observers, Mayor Bill de Blasio often appeared to grind his way through his first four years in City Hall, leading some to ask: Was he having any fun [...]

When Mayor Bill de Blasio is sworn in for a second term on Monday, the oath will be administered by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- a choice that perhaps [...]

In the months leading to the November election, the Working Families Party spent thousands of dollars aiding left-leaning Democratic candidates in dozens of races across the state, often with relatively [...]

It is difficult, even now that a year has passed, for the parents of Ibanez and Scylee Vayoh not to dwell on their daughters' deaths. Ibanez, 2, and Scylee, 1, [...]

A pair of police reform measures vigorously opposed by New York City's largest officers union is moving toward passage in the City Council, a last-ditch effort by its departing speaker, [...]

When Melissa Mark-Viverito was elected as City Council speaker, some feared that her loyalty to Mayor Bill de Blasio would curtail her independence and influence. After all, it was Mr. [...]

The city comptroller's office has stopped the city from paying the former correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, $24,000 in compensation for unused vacation days, citing the possibility of further investigations related [...]

ALBANY -- For months, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has been warning in sometimes apocalyptic terms about the potential impact of a Republican-backed tax plan in Washington on [...]

Thousands of residents of New York City's sprawling public housing system received notices under their apartment doors last year alerting them that city inspectors would need to get inside to [...]

When investigators discovered rampant misuse of city vehicles at the Correction Department, Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted on one thing: The city would be made whole. Joseph Ponte, the correction [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced several changes to his cabinet, losing two deputy mayors, and elevating three administration officials in moves that he said would strengthen the way [...]

The first deputy mayor of New York City, Anthony E. Shorris, said on Wednesday that he was leaving the administration, a move that marks the first major reshuffling of Mayor [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday that he expected a federal monitor could be appointed to supervise the city's vast Housing Authority, as he acknowledged that the city had [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio may have opened up a civic can of worms when he promised to wipe ''symbols of hate'' from city property, ultimately creating a commission to consider [...]

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last month that he was elevating Cynthia Brann to become the city's new correction commissioner, he cited her experience, saying that ''she knew the [...]

Fresh off a decisive re-election victory, Mayor Bill de Blasio strode into the ceremonial Blue Room of City Hall on Wednesday with a message aimed at New Yorkers and elected [...]

Now comes the hard part. Gliding to his second landslide victory, Bill de Blasio was re-elected on Tuesday as the mayor of New York City, overwhelming his Republican challenger, Nicole [...]

The government of New York City is enormous, with more than 295,000 full-time employees and an annual budget of $85 billion, presenting a host of challenges for any manager. The [...]

The police in New York on Friday said that they were developing a strong criminal case against the producer Harvey Weinstein after an actress's claim that he raped her seven [...]

The government of New York City is enormous, with more than 295,000 full-time employees and an annual budget of $85 billion, presenting a host of challenges for any manager. The [...]

When it came to making political donations for Mayor Bill de Blasio, Jona S. Rechnitz liked to think of himself as a yes man, always quick with the pen. For [...]

Against a backdrop of renewed fears of terrorism, Mayor Bill de Blasio and two of his main challengers clashed on Wednesday in their final pre-election debate that, after a solemn [...]

Barely two hours after the deadly truck attack struck Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a news conference at Police Headquarters, where police and elected officials were [...]

During high-pressure meetings to plan the expansion of prekindergarten during his first months in City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio would invoke the D-Day invasion of Normandy: There it is [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday dismissed the court testimony of a campaign contributor who said he bought access to City Hall with his donations, calling the man a liar. [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that his affordable housing plan would reach its goal of building or preserving 200,000 below-market-rate apartments by the end of 2022, two years [...]

Hours after New York City released its bid for Amazon's second headquarters, Mayor Bill de Blasio conveyed an entirely different message to a Brooklyn audience on Wednesday night: The behemoth [...]

During nearly seven years as a Republican in the New York State Assembly, Nicole Malliotakis earned a reputation for embracing unpopular stances in the Democrat-controlled chamber, opposing minimum wage increases, [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio withstood a relentless enfilade of darts and barbs from two of his general election opponents in a raucous debate on Tuesday night, countering with a determined [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio and two of his general election opponents will face off in a televised debate Tuesday night that could produce a few sparks -- but not if [...]

At a recent gathering in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood front and center, ready to take questions on the most local of issues: a wayward affordable housing application, an [...]

Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican candidate for mayor, raised more money than Mayor Bill de Blasio did in late September, according to information submitted to the New York City Campaign Finance [...]

The Republican candidate for mayor in New York, Nicole Malliotakis, an assemblywoman from Staten Island, is struggling to get the attention of voters in a heavily Democratic city, with a [...]

The first general election debate in the race for New York City mayor just got more crowded, if not more colorful, as organizers announced on Wednesday that Bo Dietl, the [...]

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis hit a pair of important fund-raising milestones this week, as her campaign reported that it has raised enough money to qualify for the first general [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to be seen as a leader in fighting global warming, and he says that everyone needs to do their part. But when it comes to [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said that he wants to force landlords to retrofit old buildings -- including apartment houses, office buildings and warehouses, with more than 25,000 square [...]

It was the morning after a resounding primary victory for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the kind that political mandates are made of, and as luck would have it, the mayor [...]