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Stephen Rex Brown

Articles by Stephen Rex Brown


The ceremony at City Hall established Mamdani at the vanguard of a movement led by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.


Mamdani will need support from traditional city power brokers.


Exactly how the official count of mayors will be updated to include a 17th century mayor’s second term is unclear.


“Everyone that knows about petitioning is well aware that you even have some of your opponents who come and do tricks,” Adams said.


Adams recently held a town hall where members of the neighborhood’s Hasidic community criticized the bike lane.


The move comes a day after the assemblymember and comptroller hammered Andrew Cuomo on the debate stage.


A new briefing schedule in the MTA lawsuit over congestion pricing keeps the case active through at least October.


The measures include a mask ban, new authorities for campus police officers and scrutiny of the Middle East studies department.


The federal education department justified the move by citing alleged antisemitic harassment on campus.


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