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Amazon Workers Held a May Day Rally In New York

A Union Vote to Organize a Second Amazon Warehouse on Staten Island Falls Short

After a successful campaign to organize a warehouse in April, the Amazon Labor Union failed to unionize a second facility.
By Talia Jane
Pranama Jayatissa

After Losing a Union Vote, Amazon is Changing Its Tactics For Round Two

After Amazon lost a union vote, the company has shifted tactics as a second warehouse votes on unionization. According to workers, the company is deploying a tactic traditionally used by unions against hostile employers, not the other way around.
By Talia Jane
celebrates following vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York.

How New York’s Most Republican Borough Unionized Amazon

Staten Island is represented by Republicans in Congress, but it has the highest number of union members of any borough in NYC. And with the unionization of Amazon, it just got some more.
By Anna Betts

How a Madison Square Park Monument Was Transformed to Honor Refugees of War

By Osman Can Yerebakan
Some New York congressional lawmakers are facing off against first-time candidates in this year's congressional races.

Can These Congressional Candidates Overthrow the Establishment?

By Madina Toure
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, left; Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), right; and other lawmakers listen during a news conference to announce new members of the House Democratic leadership team on Nov. 17, 2014 in Washington, DC.

House Dems Name Top Challengers in GOP Districts, Including NYC Candidate

By Madina Toure
Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, leads a march of people protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer involved in the chokehold death of her father in July on Dec. 11, 2014 on Staten Island.

Erica Garner ‘Never Stopped Fighting’ For Her Father, Activists Say

By Madina Toure
Disgraced former Congressman Michael Grimm at his campaign launch on Staten Island.

As Michael Grimm Runs for Congress Again, Experts Predict Tough Path to Victory

By Madina Toure
Rendering of one piece in the multi-part Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park.

Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Fund Commission to Take Over All Five NYC Boroughs

By Taylor Dafoe
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Gillibrand Vows ‘Aggressive’ Push on Infrastructure

By Madina Toure
Congressman Michael Grimm this morning after voting.

Greg Gianforte, Michael Grimm and the Political Consequences of Violence Against Reporters

By Will Bredderman
Political campaigns will be able to pinpoint individual voters through their television sets.

New York City Could Be ‘Ground Zero’ for the Next Generation of Political TV Ads

By Will Bredderman
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.

Malliotakis, the Latest Republican in the Mayoral Fray, Says She’s the ‘Underdog’ Who Can Beat de Blasio

By Madina Toure
Mayor de Blasio

Bill de Blasio Says His Week on Staten Island Wasn’t a Listening Tour

By Madina Toure
Mayor Bill de Blasio.

De Blasio Vows to Keep Pushing for ‘Mansion Tax’ and Mayoral Control After State Budget Passes

By Madina Toure
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Staten Island Borough President Jimmy Oddo speaking at Staten Island Borough Hall.

De Blasio Kicks Off Week on Staten Island With Promise to Serve Conservative Borough Better

By Madina Toure
Assemblyman Ronald Castorina, left, and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, right.

Staten Island Republican Urges Feds to Go Ahead and Yank Funding Over NYC’s Sanctuary City Policy

By Will Bredderman
Assemblyman Ronald Castorina, left, and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, right.

Republicans Seek Restraining Order to Stop NYC From Dumping Files of the Undocumented

By Will Bredderman
Brooklyn State Senator Martin Golden (Photo: Will Bredderman/New York Observer).

‘The Trend Has Changed From Black Lives Matter to Blue Lives Matter,’ Brooklyn Pol Says

By Will Bredderman
Staten Island Ferry docked at Staten Island Terminal.

No One Wants to Date Someone Who Lives in Staten Island

By Margaret Abrams
This is what 14 trips on the Staten Island Ferry looks like.

My Day as the Staten Island Ferry’s Writer-in-Residence

By Jillian Jorgensen
Dr. Mary Bassett's first few years as health commissioner has been dominated by microbes.

NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett Still Hears the Voices of Her Patients

By Jillian Jorgensen
A Hockney portrait.

Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Shot to Move to Chicago, Why Artists Love Balloons…And More

By Guelda Voien
Battle of NY

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Presidential Battle of New York

By Jillian Jorgensen
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