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WPIX 11 New York
March 27, 2018
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn — The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association rallied for a new contract Monday in front of the Prospect Park YMCA, where Mayor Bill de Blasio exercises most mornings. The union has been negotiating a new two-year contract for NYPD officers and, according to union leaders, the cityÃâà...
Metro US
March 23, 2018
New York City saw its safest year on record in 2017 in terms of traffic fatalities, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday. The city launched its Vision Zero initiative in 2014 with the goal of eliminating traffic and pedestrian deaths, and on Friday released a report reviewing the first four years of that effort.
Eater NY
March 23, 2018
The former owner of a prominent Long Island City restaurant is now in the spotlight in an ongoing bribery scandal involving mayor Bill de Blasio. Harendra Singh — a Long Island restaurateur who also ran now-shuttered restaurant and wedding venue Water's Edge — pleaded guilty earlier this year to tryingÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A Long Island restaurateur testified under oath on Thursday that he steered tens of thousands of dollars to Mayor Bill de Blasio's political campaigns in return for favorable treatment by the city. It was the first time that the restaurateur, Harendra Singh, has publicly detailed his effortsÃâà...
QNS.com
March 21, 2018
With a big snowstorm hitting Queens that prompted a state of emergency and school closures, Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to pay a visit to Middle Village on March 21 to check on the snow removal conditions, and get to know Councilman Robert Holden. Holden gave the mayor a brief tour of the town heÃâà...
Newsweek
March 21, 2018
Bill de Blasio is furious. Not because economic inequality, which he has promised to eradicate, persists across the five boroughs. Not because New York remains two cities, as he vividly described it in his successful 2013 mayoral campaign, one for the powerful, the other for the powerless. No, his ire isÃâà...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
March 16, 2018
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new package of state legislation yesterday to keep dangerous drivers from getting behind the wheel. Following last week's crash that claimed the lives of two children in Park Slope, the city is seeking to extend and expand its speed enforcement camera program, escalateÃâà...
WABC-TV
March 7, 2018
"This should never have happened," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. Bruns had a valid driver's license, but was stripped of it after the collision. Police and Brooklyn prosecutors were looking at Bruns' medical records, bloodwork and driving record, but unless a doctor advised her not to drive,Ãâà...
amNY
March 7, 2018
It's unfair that New York City's anti-nepotism laws bar a mayor from paying his wife with taxpayer funds, Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. While “I respect and understand why the law is in place,” de Blasio said, he lamented that his wife, Chirlane McCray, cannot be compensated for her work on important cityÃâà...
Observer
March 7, 2018
Mayor Bill de Blasio with his wife Chirlane McCray; actress Cynthia Nixon; and activist Al Sharpton at the 2016 Pride march. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images. Mayor Bill de Blasio is not formally endorsing Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, one of his allies, for governor just yet, insisting that “it's her ownÃâà...
Crain's New York Business
March 6, 2018
It is even tougher for Bill de Blasio, whose missteps, stubbornness and occasional hypocrisy inspire even more criticism than the ample amount every mayor gets. The governor and the Republicans and Democrats who control the state Senate cannot stomach him, and City Council Speaker Corey JohnsonÃâà...
The 74
March 6, 2018
“There is no daylight between Mayor de Blasio and myself in terms of what we believe in, what our aspirations are for the children of New York City,” said Carranza, the superintendent of Houston's schools and past district leader in San Francisco, as the mayor looked on with an expression of almost fatherlyÃâà...
News 12 Bronx
March 5, 2018
Mayor Bill de Blasio has named Richard Carranza as the next chancellor of New York City public schools. The decision comes after de Blasio's first pick for chancellor, Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, backed out. Carranza comes to New York City with experience as a teacher, principal andÃâà...
News 12 Brooklyn
March 5, 2018
Mayor Bill de Blasio has named Richard Carranza as the next chancellor of New York City public schools. The decision comes after de Blasio's first pick for chancellor, Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, backed out. Carranza comes to New York City with experience as a teacher, principal andÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Two months into his second term, Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting a taste of what divided government feels like — from his own party. Where once the Democrat-dominated New York City Council was a reliable ally of the Democratic mayor, the two branches have increasingly been split as the CouncilÃâà...
CBS New York
December 31, 1999
Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio played out Tuesday in Albany. The governor met with City Council members about the city's public housing crisis, but the mayor was missing from the meeting. As CBS2's Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, Council Speaker Cory Johnson prowled the halls inÃâà...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Alberto Carvalho speaks at the opening of the Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami on May 8, 2017. New York City Mayo Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that Carvalho would be the new leader of the city's schools, but Carvalho publicly declined the job on Thursday.
Newsday
December 31, 1999
Weeks before turning down the New York City schools chancellorship on live television, Miami schools chief Alberto Carvalho was warned by Mayor Bill de Blasio that details of an alleged extramarital affair would resurface in the New York news media, de Blasio said Friday. During his weekly WNYC radioÃâà...
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