The Rent Guidelines Board has approved a nearly 4 percent hike for rent-stabilized apartments in the city, affecting some 1.1 million apartments by 3.75 percent for one-year renewals and 7.25 percent for two-year contracts, the New York Daily News reported. The hikes will take effect October 1. “It’s very disappointing,” said Jesse Duperon, who lives [...]
The Rent Guidelines Board will hold a final vote tonight on how much the tenants of more than one million rent-regulated city apartments will pay this fall. Board members are gathering at Cooper Union’s Great Hall at 5:30 p.m. to consider a hike of 3 to 5.75 percent for one-year lease renewals and an increase [...]
State Senator Carl Kruger is expected to turn himself into authorities Thursday on unspecified charges brought forth by the U.S. attorney’s office, sources tell NY1. The veteran Brooklyn lawmaker and the former finance chairman of the state Senate has been implicated in an FBI influence peddling probe since 2008. Kruger’s surrender comes a week after [...]
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 [...]
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,” [...]
On his first trip to the state’s scandal-scarred Capitol, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan had a message that government isn’t the savior for society’s ills. Dolan says the scandals show people must look for answers spiritually, not through government. It’s the first visit to Albany by a New York archbishop in 12 months, almost to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
