From DNA Info : In the past two years, two city councilwomen went to bat for nonprofits employing their family members, writing letters of...

From the NY Post : Brooklyn’s borough president and a top deputy spent 11 days traveling in China at the expense of a nonprofit run by one...

From Crains : Mayor Bill de Blasio's budget proposal eliminates a $1.1 million allocation for industrial business zones, a decision th...

From the Daily News : Big real estate developers, affordable housing builders and minority activists are teaming up to fight a Council bil...

How many differences can you spot between these 2 photos? The top one comes from the Daily News . The bottom one comes from a recent Vi...

From Crains : Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez has formed a campaign committee to raise money for a possible run for City Council, records ...

From the Queens Chronicle : In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg announced that specific areas of city land would be preserved for industrial purposes...

From the Daily News : About half of the City Council’s 51 members say they disagree with Speaker Christine Quinn’s blatantly wrong practic...

From Crains : Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s interest in running for the New York City Council appears to be renewed. On Friday afternoon, Mr. L...

From the Wall Street Journal : Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood is often compared to Williamsburg of the 1990s, where artists and young...

From the Daily News : Years before his political career imploded in a sexual harassment scandal, Brooklyn political boss Vito Lopez amassed ...

From the Village Voice : Much to the dismay of the National Organization of Women, women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, Assembly candi...

From Willets Point United : The New York City Economic Development Corporation has solicited developer firms to implement the Willets Point ...

From Metro : Councilwoman Diana Reyna theorized that “hipsters” may be part of the cause for the inconsistency of the Census numbers, statin...

From The Brooklyn Paper : Get a load of Assemblyman Vito Lopez at Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement on Monday that the city is helping a develo...

Where are they all now? Monserrate, Gioia and Sears are no longer in office, but Leroy Comrie, James Sanders and Diana Reyna can do somethi...

From Architect's Newspaper : A new park design is moving forward in Southside Williamsburg, thanks to a plan to cap the Brooklyn-Queens ...

From Crains : With Walmart officials making it clear they intend to open stores in the five boroughs, the City Council has scheduled a heari...

From the Brooklyn Paper : Community leaders are scrambling to landmark the historic stretch of Bushwick known as “Brewers Row” before the bu...

From the Brooklyn Paper : The Queens-based developer and Bronx financial partner who won a bid from the city to redevelop the defunct Greenp...