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A New BID Is Proposed for Yorkville; Here’s Who’d Pay for It and What They’d Get

Mike Mishkin September 3, 2026 Politics No Comments

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. Read More...

The City Just Laid Out 50-Plus Ways to Cut Red Tape for Small Businesses

Mike Mishkin July 21, 2026 Politics No Comments

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. Read More...

Home Care Workers Just Started a Two-Week Sit-In Outside Julie Menin’s Upper East Side Building

Mike Mishkin July 15, 2026 Politics No Comments

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 Read More...

‘Remove Mamdani’: Hundreds Rally at Gracie Mansion, Woman Struck With Flagpole

Mike Mishkin May 27, 2026 Politics No Comments

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 Read More...

Upper East Siders Just Decided How Nearly $2 Million in Public Funding Will Be Spent in Their Neighborhood

Mike Mishkin May 14, 2026 Politics No Comments

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 Read More...

PB Vote Week Is Here: Upper East Siders Can Help Choose Which Local Projects Get Funded

Mike Mishkin April 10, 2026 Politics No Comments

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. Read More...

Mamdani is Moving to the UES

Mike Mishkin December 9, 2025 Politics No Comments

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 … Read More...

City Council Secures Over $20 Million for Upper East Side Improvements in New Budget

Mike Mishkin July 1, 2025 Politics No Comments

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 … Read More...

Trump Pardons Ex-Congressman Behind Tax Fraud at Upper East Side Restaurant

Mike Mishkin May 29, 2025 Politics 2 Comments

While Grimm’s political career centered around Staten Island and Brooklyn, his legal downfall was tied to a small Upper East Side restaurant. Read More...

Participatory Budgeting Winners Announced

Mike Mishkin May 6, 2025 Politics 1 Comment

Here's where the money will be going. Read More...