You may recall the post here where Paul Graziano analyzed NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson's "Planning Together" legislation...

From the Daily News : Council Speaker Corey Johnson is vowing to crack down on home-sharing site Airbnb — a favorite foe of the hotels uni...

From CBS 2 : Corey Johnson, the new speaker of the New York City Council, vows to be independent and mount his own investigations of city...

We suggest that you read this informative expose on Kings County Politics so you can get an understanding of how we ended up with Corey Joh...

From Crains : Several high-powered real estate firms invested heavily in the political fortunes of Greenwich Village Democrat Corey Johnso...

From Progress Queens : For this report, Councilmember Van Bramer's communications director, Sean Butler, did not answer on the record ...

It's Friday. The City Council Speaker candidates didn't have a care in the world (except jockeying for position to kiss the king...

From the Daily News : Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who also heads the state Reform Party, wants to give voters a chance to abolis...

From Progress Queens : Because Election Day is four (4) days away, on Tuesday, 07 November, Progress Queens is publicly releasing a civili...

From Crains : The eight city councilmen running to succeed Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito vowed to further democratize the body—and some sa...

From the NY Post : Controversial onetime convicted terror leader Oscar Lopez Rivera may have declined the Puerto Rican Day Parade’s “Nati...

From the Observer : The speaker of the New York City Council, Melissa Mark-Viverito, has an unusual strategy for solving city problems. Wh...

From NY1 : Just two and a half years ago, half a dozen candidates slugged it out to become the next speaker of the city council. It was ...

From NYC Council Watch : Does the Council imagine that the good times will roll on and on? When a downturn hits, it will be interesting t...

From Crains : The city is planning to rezone LIC. What's the plan? Long Island City is the epicenter of growth in Queens, and the ad...

From the NY Post : The state’s newly minted Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, accepted cash from a mobster convicted of racketeering and ste...

From Crains : In her State of the City speech Wednesday, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito called for increased protections for the ci...

From CBS News : Embattled New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has agreed to step down by Monday of next week, in the wake of f...

From the NY Observer : Top officials with the Queens Democratic Party are calling Assembly members in Queens, Manhattan and Nassau County ...

From Crains : New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and one of her former political consultants are subjects of a city ethic...