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Vito Lopez is dead
Former Assemblyman ❀Vito Lopez, who championed the rights of tenants and the elderly but whose three-decade career crashed in a sexual harassmen💯t scandal, has died. The longtime Brooklyn legislator fell...
﷽ Juvi-justice panel wants criminal ﷽responsibility age raised to 18
A juvenile-justice panel is recommending raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York from 16 to 18, shifting nonviolent offenses for those under 18 to Family Co♌urt, and keeping...
Libya demands return of captured Beng♒hazi suspect
TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government on Wednesday denied it had prior knowledge of the US capture of a top suspect in the deadly 2012 assault on Americans in Benghazi... 🎶
Fox News wil𒊎l int𝕴erview Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has agreed to a half-hour interview on Fox News next month asജ she promotes her new book and prepares for a 2016 presidential run. The show is set... ๊
US 🅘attorney tells NY lawmakers to preserve Moreland records
ALBANY— Don’t shred that document. Members of the state Legislature have been instructed by US Attorney🔜 Preet Bharara to preserve all com🧸munications between themselves and the now-defunct Moreland Commission, according...
De Blasio blam𝔍es Bloomberg for cornering him on charter schools
In an 🦂appearance on B🌄rian Lehrer's WNYC radio show Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the Bloomberg administration for pushing him into a corner on charter schools. The mayor said...
Taxes, charters, horse carriages: Voters 𒀰disagree with de Blasio on all three
It’s a triple whammy for Mayor de Blasio: Voters don’t see eye to eye with him on taxing the rich to pay for pre-K, or his st🔯ances on charter schools...
Out, damn spotlight! Tech glitch zaps 'Macbeth'
So this is what they mean by “double double toil and trouble.” Lincoln Center’s V♏ivian Beaumont Theatre canceled Wednesday night’s performance of “Macbeth” about 20 minutes into the 2-hour, 45-minute...
The mayoral race's not-so-obvious winners and losers
The Winners Bill Hyers and Emma Woods: Things were looking grim for Bill de Blasio as late as June 2🐓6, when a Q poll gave him a dreary 10 percent in...
Street ꦿlights to get enಌergy-efficient replacements
♔ All 250,000 street lights in the city are going to be replaced with energy-efficient LEDs by 2017, Mayor Bloomberg is announcing Thur🐎sday. The mayor has scheduled a press conference with...
Engineers inspect NYC water tunnel fo🥃r first time since 1917
A crucial stage of the Third Water Tunnel is being completed Wednesday-- allowing engineers to inspect another water tunnel for the first time in almost 100 years "We haven't be🦄en... ღ
We ha๊ve to crack down on biker gangs: De Blasio
Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio -- who's been calling on the NYPD to ease off on its stop-and-frisk program -- says police have to take a tougher stanc𒉰e when...
De Blasio leads Lhota 71-﷽21 percent in new poll
Democrat Bill de Blasio is headed towards a landslide romp in the🐷 mayor's race and he now leads Republican rival Joe Lhota by a wide 71-21 percent, according to a poll...
🍒 Hillary Clinton to host de Blasio fundraiser
Former Secretaryꦬ of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will host a fundraiser next month for Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, his campaign announced Thursday.⛎ Details were still being worked out....
De Blasio blasts Fresh Direct's $100M freebie
Fresh Direct would never have gotten more than $100 million in government subsidies to stay in New York City if he ran City Hall, Bill de Blasio said Thursday. The Democr🌸atic mayoral...
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Joe Lhota targets de Blasio,💖 taxes
Freshly-minted GOP mayoral nominee Joe Lhota previewed possible attack lines against Democratic rival Bill deBlasio Thursday -- and fighting higher taxes was high up on the list. "His kn🦋ee jerk... 🌳
Stringer jumps 7 points ahead of Spitzer𒉰: poll
A new poll has Scott Stringer jumping to a seven-point le♈ad over Eliot Spitzer🤪 in the race for city comptroller, after a glaring racial divide had both candidates campaigning furiously...
﷽ De Blasio surges into lead for mayor - no൲w 4 points away from avoiding runoff vote: poll
Bill de Blasio is surging past his rivals in the crowded Democratic primary for mayor and iꦡs just four percentage points away from averting a runoff, according to a poll...
Bloomberg reveals city will save $363M in health care costs after insurer agrees to halt premium hike ဣ
Mayor Bloomberg has discovered the secret for sav🦋ing the city $363 million in health care costs -- the threat of competitioౠn. Bloomberg disclosed on his WOR Radio show today that...
Next question! Spitzer refuses to deny rumors of 'extra-marital affair'
Eliot Spitzer refused today to deny 🦹that he has a girlfriend. The candidate for city comptroller was asked three times at a campaign stop this morning in Brooklyn about persistent...