If I would have known the issues that had been ongoing, he would never have gone there,” LaRue said of her son.

During his time as mayor, De Blasio never fully called to “defund the police,” but he supported trimming $1 billion from the police budget in 2020 while protests flared in the wake of the death of ...

The $2.51 billion spending plan includes increases for early childhood initiatives and a new public health lab - but less funding to fight communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and ...

Lefty former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son Dante de Blasio recently scored a plum gig as the political director of a union ...

It's a tentative first step toward fulfilling a key campaign pledge to reduce the role of police in responding to mental health emergencies.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani's new Office of Community Safety will oversee mental health response, violence prevention and victim ...

Just 8 years ago, Max Rose flipped the borough's congressional seat blue — but is another midterm miracle possible now?

The new office will be led by Renita Francois, who served in the de Blasio administration's Office of Criminal Justice for years, a source familiar with the plan told Gothamist.

The mayor's ideas would worsen the city's financial woes and debt while also failing to address the underlying problem.