Central Park’s Horse Carriages Are One Vote Away From an End Date
Central Park’s horse-drawn carriages may be on their way out.
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Category: Politics
A New BID Is Proposed for Yorkville; Here’s Who’d Pay for It and What They’d Get
A steering committee backed by local elected officials and major landlords is collecting ballots for a new Business Improvement District, and the vote hinges on property owners.
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The City Just Laid Out 50-Plus Ways to Cut Red Tape for Small Businesses
New York City is home to some 180,000 small businesses — the bodegas, barbershops, taco carts, and corner restaurants that employ roughly a million people.
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Home Care Workers Just Started a Two-Week Sit-In Outside Julie Menin’s Upper East Side Building
The fight over the 24-hour workday, which has spent the last four months parked outside City Hall, moved uptown this week and landed on the
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‘Remove Mamdani’: Hundreds Rally at Gracie Mansion, Woman Struck With Flagpole
Crowds waving Israeli flags and brandishing “Remove Mamdani” signs swarmed the streets around Gracie Mansion on Tuesday night, demanding the mayor’s ouster over his stance
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Upper East Siders Just Decided How Nearly $2 Million in Public Funding Will Be Spent in Their Neighborhood
The votes are in, and five Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island projects are about to get a major infusion of cash. More than 6,200
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PB Vote Week Is Here: Upper East Siders Can Help Choose Which Local Projects Get Funded
Residents of the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island will soon have a direct say in how public dollars are spent in their neighborhood — no political experience required.
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Mamdani is Moving to the UES
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has confirmed that he and his wife, Rama Duwaji, will move into Gracie Mansion shortly after his inauguration on January 1, marking a shift from their one-bedroom …
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City Council Secures Over $20 Million for Upper East Side Improvements in New Budget
Upper East Side elected officials say they’ve secured more than $20 million in new funding for schools, parks, hospitals, sanitation services, and cultural institutions as part of the city’s recently …
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Trump Pardons Ex-Congressman Behind Tax Fraud at Upper East Side Restaurant
While Grimm’s political career centered around Staten Island and Brooklyn, his legal downfall was tied to a small Upper East Side restaurant.
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