Tricia Shimamura, the Parks Department’s Manhattan borough commissioner since March 2024, will now be in charge of 30,000 acres of parkland across the city’s five boroughs.
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.
The protests outside a Queens synagogue on Jan. 8 featured insults and slurs from the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups that gathered at night, but most attention focused on chants in support of Hamas.
The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.
The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.
Mark Levine, who took office as New York City comptroller in January, warned that absent significant financial growth, city programs would need to be scaled back.
Prosecutors in the case of Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, have been asked to focus on reviewing the vast amount of files connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
The Council speaker, Julie Menin, will introduce bills that would establish a buffer zone at houses of worship to keep protesters at some distance from congregants.
Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.
An empty storefront in Lower Manhattan. The drop-off in New York City business activity was most pronounced in major commercial districts, according to the Economic Development Corporation.
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.
“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
Though small business advocates in New York are excited that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tackling the issue of excessive fees and fines, they’ve heard similar promises before.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has become the latest leader of New York City to try to streamline rules that some say make it more difficult for small businesses to succeed.
James Luckey-Lange, 28, was released this week with several other U.S. citizens from the country’s notorious prison system after going missing in December, his family said.
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