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Get to Know Your City Council District and Its 2025 Candidates

Rachel Holliday Smith June 13, 2025, 5:00 a.m.June 12, 2025, 6:31 p.m.

Who represents you and who wants the job? How has your district changed? And who are the neighbors voting with you?

Housing

City’s Anti-Broker Fee Law Kicks In for Tenants

June 10, 2025, 7:33 p.m.June 12, 2025, 10:49 a.m.

The FARE Act aims to make whoever hired the broker pay their fee, rather than it falling on renters.

Mayor Eric Adams and former State Sen. Jesse Hamilton are seen at separate press conferences in a diptych image.

Adams World: Investigated

City Council Charter Proposes Independent Lease Review After Adams Scandal

June 6, 2025, 5:00 a.m.June 6, 2025, 10:10 a.m.

Review of billions of dollars in office space deals would move to the city comptroller, after an official close to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to steer a city agency to a political donor’s Wall Street building.

Housing

Council OKs Apartments for Industrial Stretch in Brooklyn

May 29, 2025, 12:45 p.m.May 29, 2025, 1:56 p.m.

The Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan allows housing where gas stations and warehouse now stand — including an 18-story tower at the disputed site where the iconic Sherita billboard stood.

Pro and anti-Airbnb demonstrators clashed in City Hall Park after a bill was introduced in the City Council to make it easier for some homeowners to provide short-term rentals, Dec. 9, 2024.

Campaign 2025

Special Interests Spend Big to Reshape City Council

May 22, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 22, 2025, 8:42 a.m.

Airbnb, Uber and the Real Estate Board of New York are among the major power players looking to pick winners in the election.

Candidate Clarisa Alayeto in a campaign image stands on a street wearing a blue cardigan, blue and white button down shirt and long loc'd hair.

Campaign 2025

Judges Reject Ballot Attack From Big-Money PAC in Bronx Council Race

May 7, 2025, 1:17 p.m.May 7, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

Clarisa Alayeto will remain on the ballot for the Democratic primary next month after fighting off a legal challenge from a deep-pocketed independent expenditure group backing her opponent.

Campaign 2025

13 City Council Races to Watch in NYC’s June Election

May 5, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 7, 2025, 10:21 a.m.

All 51 seats in the city’s legislative body are up for grabs this year.

Trump istration

ICE Blocked from Rikers as Judge Extends Order Halting Cooperation With Feds

April 25, 2025, 4:19 p.m.April 25, 2025, 4:46 p.m.

The lawyer representing the City Council, which sued to block Mayor Adams from allowing ICE an office on Rikers, blasted the arrangement as a “corrupt deal.”