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I want to implement universal school streets,

"You stood in the cold, knocked on doors, talked to our community, and believed in this campaign even when people said it couldn't be done," Abdelhamid said in a post on Instagram.

Mamdani announced the move on Jan. 7, describing 31st Street as one of the most dangerous corridors in Queens. He said the decision to restart the redesign process and comply with a ruling issued by Queens Supreme Court Judge Chereé Buggs represented the "fastest path" to delivering "critical safety upgrades" along the corridor. The Mamdani administration added that the New York City Law Department will also file a notice of appeal of the court's ruling.

It's another twist in a saga so twisty that it's now strange to remember Adams had initially backed the idea of turning the city lot turned sculpture garden into apartments for seniors. But he flip-flopped in June, after bringing on Randy Mastro as his deputy mayor, and designated the garden as city parkland in November - a move that seemed designed to stop Zohran Mamdani from reviving the housing project on the site and secure Adams's legacy as the savior of the celebrity-approved green space.

Budgets are nothing if not a reflection of political choices and political will, and I am eager to make different decisions and to enact an agenda that puts first the many, not just the privileged, Mamdani said.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, targets Local Law 124, which essentially acts to include grocery delivery companies in Local Laws 107, 108, 113 and 123, which were passed to improve working conditions and wages for restaurant delivery workers under companies like UberEats and Doordash by raising the minimum wage for those workers to $21.44/hour, changing the way tipping options are presented to consumers and increasing record-keeping requirements for companies.

Queer and trans people across the United States are facing an increasingly hostile political environment. New York City must be a refuge for LGBTQIA+ people, but private institutions in our own city have already started capitulating to Trump's assault on trans rights. Meanwhile, the cost of living crisis confronting working class people across the city hits the LGBTQIA+ community particularly hard, with higher rates of unemployment and homelessness than the rest of the city. The Mamdani administration will protect LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers by ex

Stein was raised in an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish family. After suppressing her gender identity since childhood, she left the Hasidic community in 2012 and came out as trans in 2015. Now identifying as ex-Orthodox, Stein is still a practicing Rabbi, serving part-time at Brooklyn's Kolot Chayein synagogue. She released her first book in 2019, a memoir titled Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. That memoir has since been adapted into the off-Broadway play of the same name.

Of course, that's not true; there's always baggage. Every society that thrives today does so with a debt to a history filled with pain, exploitation and self-serving decision-making. It's painful to point it out, but if we can't point it out on Thanksgiving - when we literally give thanks for the bounty that we enjoy as Americans - then when can we?

Photo via Getty Images This week (11/13), the New York City Council will hold a hearing on proposed legislation known as the Paraprofessional Respect Check', a historic bill that would provide all New York City public school paraprofessionals with an annual $10,000 payment, outside and in addition to the traditional salary schedule and labor contract. The RESPECT check is necessary because paraprofessionals don't earn enough.

I feel electric, I feel amazing. I feel like being uncompromising in your values, whether it be about touching that third rail of speaking out against Israel or primarily focusing on affordability in your campaign strategy, turns out very effective. Piker added: It's something that I know you know, it's something I have spoken to every f*cking Democrat about. Can I curse on Zeteo? I am sorry.

But as a congregational rabbi and now the head of the largest Jewish movement in North America, I've never told congregants for whom they should vote. I won't start now, despite the Trump administration's misguided efforts to weaken the Johnson Amendment, the longstanding rule that bars congregations and their leaders from endorsing or opposing candidates from the pulpit. Keeping partisan politics out of our politically diverse congregations feels more essential than ever in today's polarized climate.

Summonses for running red lights and other offenses remain above even the initial surge in ticket-writing that came with the April 28 announcement of the criminal crackdown. As a result, thousands of cyclists and e-bike riders, including many immigrant delivery workers, have become ensnared in the criminal court system. Workers' boosters called on Mamdani to issue a moratorium on the criminalization of cycling.

The 2025 NYC mayor's race is shaping up to be one of the most consequential elections in the city's history. The energy among voters is evident in the huge early voting turnout witnessed since the first ballots were cast on Saturday morning, Oct. 25. As of Tuesday night, Oct. 28, the NYC Board of Elections reported just shy of 300,000 New Yorkers had already checked in to vote through four days of early voting.

Eric Adams is considering appointing new members to the Rent Guidelines Board before his term expires, which could make it harder for frontrunner Zohran Mamdani to fulfill his promise to freeze rent for the city's 2 million stabilized tenants. If Adams makes those appointments, it would leave the board split, sources say. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani's promise to "freeze the rent" for the city's 2 million rent stabilized tenants has captured the race for mayor, and won him support of many New Yorkers

I know there are a lot of people on Twitter, a lot of Cuomo fans, who think that this race is closing. I want what they're having, he continued. Because if we take a look at the choice for New York City mayor, look, back in September, Mamdani was ahead by 15 points, my aggregate of polls, 45% to 30%. You jump to now, it's basically the same story. If nothing else, Mamdani might have actually gained a point or two.