Assemblyman Jose Peralta has won Tuesday’s special election for the 13th State Senate District. He will now represent parts of Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and Corona. It was a heated race between Peralta and his main challenger, former State Senator Hiram Monserrate who ran as an Independent hoping to win back his old seat. Monserrate [...]
Legislative leaders, citing lame- duck Gov. Paterson’s huge legal troubles and the late release of a massive, $6 billion borrowing scheme, privately concede there’s no chance to get a new state budget adopted by the April 1 start of the new fiscal year. In fact, many predict there won’t be a budget until late June, [...]
The city’s largest landlord has secured desperately needed financing that could help steer it out of the red. Under a labyrinthine deal that federal and state lawmakers and city officials raced to complete in less than six months, the landlord, the New York City Housing Authority, will receive about $230 million for rehabilitating 21 developments [...]
A relative of two New York City politicians has pleaded guilty to charges that he embezzled $115,000 from a taxpayer-funded nonprofit group, then shared some of the ill-gotten gains with his lawmaking kin. Richard Izquierdo-Arroyo is the grandson of New York Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo and the nephew of City Council member Maria del Carmen Arroyo. [...]
A former Republican congressman is about to throw his hat into the ring for the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand. Joe DioGuardi, seen above, who represented the suburbs north of the city for two terms in the 1980s, is set to announce his candidacy on Tuesday. He is expected to make the announcement [...]
MTA brass are considering a fare hike as early as this year as they struggle to fill a $750 million budget gap, The Post has learned. Increasing the cost of a ride on subways, buses and commuter rails in 2010 is just one option out of many that officials have put on the table to [...]
A poll shows that a New York state senator trying to reclaim the seat he was expelled from last month is trailing by a large margin ahead of Tuesday’s special election in Queens. The Siena College poll finds that only 15 percent of likely voters support former Sen. Hiram Monserrate. He originally won the seat [...]
The city has agreed to a settlement worth up to $657 million in more than 10,000 lawsuits filed by September 11th rescue and response workers. Workers who claim they suffered an array of illnesses from the dust and debris at the ruins of the World Trade Center would receive compensation if the settlement is approved [...]
A documentary about the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival unveiled part of its lineup Wednesday. The work-in-progress film about the former New York governor is directed by Alex Gibney, whose “Taxi to the Dark Side” won the 2007 documentary Oscar. Spitzer resigned in 2008 [...]
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has stepped aside in the ethics investigations of Governor David Paterson. Cuomo has named former State Chief Judge Judith Kaye to look into the two scandals plaguing the governor. Reports say that Paterson allegedly helped cover up a domestic violence investigation involving his top aide and allegedly lied under oath about [...]
