State Sen. John DeFrancisco announced today he will run for a 10th term in office this year. “I can say unequivocally this is not the time (to retire),” DeFrancisco said from his campaign headquarters at 321 W. Onondaga St., flanked by dozens of supporters. DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992, [...]
With a firm trial date looming for thousands of lawsuits brought by workers at ground zero against the city, lawyers for both sides are engaged in intensive talks aimed at settling some or all the cases. The first 12 cases are scheduled for trial on May 16 in Manhattan. But Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who [...]
State Senate sources tell NY1 a vote on a resolution relating to Senator Hiram Monserrate is likely to come early next week, but it is unclear what that resolution will be. Last month, a senate committee found the Queens Democrat unremorseful following his conviction for misdemeanor assault stemming from an altercation with his girlfriend. The [...]
The Manhattan district attorney’s office will not charge Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner who backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side last month and drove away, a law enforcement official said Thursday afternoon. The decision not to charge Mr. Safir was vindication that “there [...]
Former Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio was sentenced to six years in prison today for committing fraud. Federal prosecutors say Seminerio took a million dollars in payments from companies doing business with the state and created a fake consulting firm in April 2000 to hide the payments. The former politician must also pay $1 million in [...]
After being sworn in for a third term Wednesday night by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz outlined his commitment to several high-profile projects. During his state of the borough address, Markowitz discussed his desire to transform the armories in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant into recreational community centers. Markowitz said he will be [...]
Douglas L. Hoffman offered to support a Republican candidate during last fall’s special election in the 23rd Congressional District, only to decide later to run against her. Now William A. Barclay would like Mr. Hoffman to guarantee he won’t use the Conservative Party line, which state leaders have promised him, to challenge the Republican nominee [...]
Medical marijuana is a “good idea,” New York State voters say 71 – 25 percent, with support among all political, racial and regional groups, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Even Republicans say 55 – 41 percent that adults should be allowed to use marijuana if their doctor prescribes it, the independent Quinnipiac [...]
More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday. A list of the 15 day care centers that are scheduled to close in July, 10 of them in Brooklyn, was released by the Administration for Children’s Services, [...]
The city created or saved 27,218 of the 599,108 jobs the White House reported generating nationally in the final three months of 2009 as a result of federal stimulus funds pumped into the crippled economy. Most of the $5.85 billion allocated to the Big Apple went to the school system ($2 billion); Medicaid ($1.6 billion); [...]
