It's Tuesday in New York City, where the minimum wage would increase to a nation-leading $30 an hour by 2030 under a bill set to be introduced in the City Council.
City Councilmember Sandra Nurse, who is introducing the bill, said the existing $17 hourly rate amounted to $500 a week in take home pay after taxes, leaving too many New York families in poverty.
While some small businesses expressed fears that a wage increase would force them to lay off workers, a 2019 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that the state’s minimum wage increase in previous years had "no discernible effect on employment."
Two Pennsylvania teens are facing terrorism charges after police said they tried to ignite homemade explosive devices at a protest outside Gracie Mansion over the weekend and later expressed support for ISIS.
Public employee unions are pushing for changes to New York's pension policy that could cost the state billions. In this case, even Republican lawmakers are supportive.
Groups of Upper West Siders are calling on the city’s education department to hold off on plans to close two middle schools and relocate another in the neighborhood after racist comments made by a parent during a public meeting roiled the community.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is seeking legal authorization from the City Council to wrest control of apartment buildings from the city’s worst landlords.
The attorneys general of New York and New Jersey said they reject the U.S. Department of Justice’s tentative anti-trust deal with Live Nation, and will press ahead with their own lawsuit aimed at breaking up the Ticketmaster owner as an illegal monopoly.
New York City Councilmember Vickie Paladino is suing to block the City Council from taking any disciplinary action against her for Islamophobic posts she made on social media.
Goldman Sachs said it had a "fiduciary" duty to sell the Trump administration a Roxbury, New Jersey warehouse it plans to convert into one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Local politicians and activists say it's a "black mark" on the bank's reputation.
"Art is not about us," said the painter Samia Halaby. "Can you imagine the Pope going to Michelangelo and saying, 'Come here my boy, can you express yourself all over my ceiling?' Art was about the society, for the society, with the society."
Around 1,200 tickets have been sold for "Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody," a production that award-winning writer Dylan MarcAurele thought he’d originally be performing in front of his friends at an open-mic night somewhere.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann said the Justice Department violated the Constitution when it attempted to have three officials share the powers of New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor’s offic
