New York City Fire Department (FDNY) pensions have averaged more than $100,000 for new retirees for the past seven years, according to data previously withheld by the pension fund and obtained by the Empire Center after a lengthy court battle. Read More
The state Assembly has not released expenditure reports, including per diems paid to lawmakers, for more than a year, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
Michael Israel was paid $1.85 million last year as president and chief executive officer at Westchester Medical Center, which topped an annual ranking of payrolls at public authorities in New York. Israel, who has headed Westchester Medical in Valhalla since 2005, has been the highest paid two consecutive years, having received $1.54 million in 2013, according to the rankings by the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank in Albany. The figures reflect base salary and other compensation, such as bonuses. Read More
The president and CEO of Westchester County Health Care Corporation, which operates Westchester Medical Center, was paid $1.85 million during 2014, making him the highest salaried official of any whose salaries are reported to the State Comptroller’s Office. Read More
A Westchester hospital executive was paid $1.85 million last year, the highest salary charted in the 10,357,902 payroll records on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. Read More
Following the agency’s illegal refusal to turn over basic data, the Empire Center for Public Policy today filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Kings County against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) over the Authority’s failure to follow the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). Read More
Following a court ruling ordering the New York City Fire Pension Fund to release the names and pension amounts of retirees, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association is vowing to continue efforts to keep the records from being made public. Read More
If you’ve spent any time at a little league baseball or soccer game, or any children's sporting event, you know the cry of "hustle up" means move faster. It’s a way adults try to keep the game moving—and remind the players of what they ought to be doing. Read More