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 was expelled from [...]
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio received a boost of political support Wednesday from former governor George Pataki.
Pataki, a three-term governor, said Lazio is the right choice to clean up the dysfunctional government in Albany.
“I believe the right person, the best person for the party, and more importantly for the state, is Rick Lazio,” Pataki said.
Lazio’s [...]
Governor David Paterson has pardoned an immigrant slated for deportation for having spent time behind bars for crimes he committed as a teenager.
Qing Hong Wu, 29, was officially pardoned on Saturday but he was released from detainment in a New Jersey correctional facility Tuesday night.
Wu, pictured above center, came to the United States when he [...]
Westchester County’s new leader says he will lay off hundreds of employees if necessary to avoid raising property taxes.
County Executive Robert Astorino says he inherited a projected $166 million deficit for 2011.
At a news conference Tuesday, Astorino said closing that gap with property taxes would mean a 30 percent increase for Westchester homeowners, but he [...]
New York Republican Rick Lazio’s lackluster gubernatorial campaign has propelled some members of his own party to court a Democrat to switch sides and lead the charge against likely Democratic nominee Andrew Cuomo this fall.
Top Republican officials are scheduled to meet Tuesday with Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy in Albany, signaling a lack of confidence [...]
New York Gov. David Paterson is pressing a state spending cap on a reluctant Legislature and pushing back against his lieutenant governor’s reported plan to borrow billions over several years to escape a fiscal crisis.
Paterson says Tuesday that spending is the state’s top problem and it must be curbed or capped before resorting to borrowing. [...]
Representative Eric J. Massa, a freshman Democrat from upstate New York who faces an investigation after being accused of harassing a male aide, said Friday that he would resign next week.
Mr. Massa was reported to the House ethics committee last month after a member of his Congressional staff accused him of harassment, according to a [...]
A gathering of city safety workers endorsed Queens Assemblyman Jose Peralta for state senator on Friday.
Union officials representing firefighters, emergency medical services and emergency medical technicians gathered in Corona to support Peralta, who is running for Hiram Monserrate’s former 13th District State Senate seat.
“Peralta has been an advocate of keeping fire houses open and fully [...]
New York Gov. David Paterson is vowing to serve out his term, in spite of growing calls for him to resign amid two scandals.
Speaking at a Brooklyn church on Sunday, Paterson said he was determined to run the state through the end of the year.
He told congregants at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn that he [...]
Former New York Mayor Edward Koch is putting together a coalition of powerful civic groups to address the state government’s gridlock.
Koch says the coalition will take aim at legislators standing in the way of change.
The state is mired in partisan bickering. There have been calls for scandal-plagued Gov. David Paterson to resign.
Koch and two good [...]
