Queens Tenants Rally Against Rent Hikes As RGB Public Hearing Get Underway
A rent freeze is the minimum goal, tenants say as June 25 Rent Guidelines Board final decision approaches.
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Questions Remain About How Mamdani’s COGE Chief Makes His Money
Veteran Democratic Party operative Patrick Gaspard will lead the mayor’s Commission on Government Efficiency, which will conduct a top to bottom review of city spending and who benefits. The potential for influence peddling is real if potential conflicts of interest are not made clear from the beginning.
DSA Candidates Face Onslaught of Pro-Israel Spending in Final Weeks of NY’s Democratic Primaries
Past supporters of Solidarity PAC—a New York version of AIPAC—are making large individual contributions in Assembly races where pro-Israel incumbents are facing strong challenges from the left.
The Park Slope Food Co-op Boycott Vote Emerged from Our History of Creating a More Just World
A longtime member of the Coop describes how it has evolved over the decades from a funky countercultural space to a modern grocery store while maintaining a social justice mission that now includes Palestine.
Midwood Protest Against West Bank Land Sales Attracts Local Counterdemonstration
The land sales inside American synagogues have received less scrutiny by city officials than the protests outside of them.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani may have the momentum to finally push forward a “Trash Revolution” that stalled under past administrations.
Following Mamdani’s recent push to clean the city, let’s look back to the garbage movement of the 1960s
Columbia’s Cooperation With ICE Calls Back to KKK Days
During the 1920s KKK resurgence, Columbia swept anti-Black persecution under the rug
NYC Public Advocate, Communication Workers of America, and Progressive Groups Come Out for Yuh-Line Niou
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has sided with the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Members of a Brooklyn-based Teamsters local tried to go on the record with a vision of solidarity between all workers