Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announced an investigation into reports raised in today’s Daily News that a City agency set quotas for issuing violations against small businesses and directed its admin
The Justice Department’s statement in support of a court-appointed monitor for the NYPD, were the Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk found unconstitutional, urgently underscores the need for fu
At today’s hearing of the Rent Guidelines Board, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio renewed his call for a rent freeze and slammed the Board for forgoing public hearings in the outer boroughs this year.
With many neighborhoods across our city still reeling from the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, and with the negative impacts of climate change worsening every day, I commend Mayor Bloomberg for off
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Assembly Member Nily Rozic held a joint press conference with homeowners in Fresh Meadows today to call for sewer upgrades and more responsive policies to handle eve
I commend Commissioner King for putting in place a new evaluation system that will overwhelmingly emphasize in-person classroom evaluation and close collaboration between principals and teachers at th
I voted for the five-borough solid waste plan in 2005 and 2006 because I believe that every part of our city should share responsibility for keeping New York clean.
udge Kaye’s School-Justice Partnership report is a road map for reducing unnecessary and often discriminatory disciplinary practices in too many of our public schools.
With the passage of a new law this morning, Connecticut is poised to be the fifth state in the union to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for a driver’s license. New York should be the sixth.
With nearly half of families living at or near poverty, de Blasio announces plan to shift up to $250 million each year in tax expenditures to revitalize CUNY, create a job-focused pipeline in city sch
