Paying for Wheelchair AccessibilityTo get an outer-borough taxi plan passed, the city agreed to subsidize 3,600 accessible livery cabs to the tune of $15,000 each. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the city will get that money from the sale of yellow taxi medal Read More
Counties across New York are ringing in the New Year with a sense of deep concern over the new reality 2012 will bring. With Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2 percent cap on property tax increases set to go into effect, workers in a slew of counties will wa Read More
The state’s highest court has received a request to hear a lawsuit vital to the public’s right to know where its money is being spent: the case of a nonprofit suing the NYPD pension fund for pensioners’ names. The Court of Appeals should tak Read More
New York’s teacher-retirement fund wants to keep taxpayers in the dark about the pensions it hands out. Must be some darn fat pensions, huh? Wouldn’t want to enrage the public to the point where pensions are trimmed, now would it? In a pred Read More
Koch, Quinn and Living WageEd Koch opposes the living-wage bill, but he does not plan to make it a litmus test for his support of Christine Quinn, whom he recently endorsed for mayor in 2013. If the City Council speaker backs the measure, “I will s Read More
The votes are tallied, and 's set of trustees will remain the same. The saw five residents seeking election to four seats. Mary Callan, Peter Danish, Mary Anne Evangelist and Mark Hussey were all elected to the board—each has served the library Read More
It’s an issue that Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn’t touched, but the Empire Center for Public Policy argues in a report today that the 30-year-old “Triborough Amendment” is hurting taxpayers and governments’ ability to negotiate new labor contracts Read More