Waiting on the Budget

The City Council’s budget negotiating team stayed late last night at City Hall, trying to hammer out a budget before the June 30 deadline. A handshake agreement is expected today or tomorrow.

In the meantime, it’s a scene. Lobbyists have been a permanent fixture on the City Hall steps and in the City Hall Read More

Reyna on Hillary, Gender Loyalty

More from that Young Democrats meeting about women in politics…

Here’s panelist and City Council member Diana Reyna pondering the rectitude of voting for Hillary Clinton based the fact that she’s female:

“And then we would feel guilty because then, maybe, we want to vote for her because she is a woman,” she said. Read More

Quinn's Brooklyn

The green outline shows Speaker Christine Quinn’s proposed 421-a exclusion zone in northern Brooklyn–the area within which developers would need to include on-site affordable housing in order to qualify for tax breaks.

Currently, the exclusion zone covers only well-established neighborhoods (West Village, the Upper East and West Sides), where an automatic 421-a tax Read More