NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani quietly meets with Steven Spielberg days after inauguration

NYPost.com (Metro) 1/9 9:23P Fox News

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged to return power "to the people" when he took office. But just days later, he reportedly held a private meeting with one of the world's wealthiest filmmakers.

Montclair’s $18M school crisis leaves taxpayers on the hook

CrainsNewYork.com (Technology) 1/9 9:47A Erin Hudson, Bloomberg

The schools in Montclair, New Jersey, are facing a deficit of nearly $18 million. Some residents of the New York City suburb worry that leaving it to taxpayers to clean up the mess could make living there unaffordable. Real estate prices soared...

ICE ‘murder,' Trump, child care and ‘my NYPD': 5 takeaways from our Mamdani 1-1

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 1/9 1:29A Melissa Russo, Tara Guaimano and

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would not budge on enforcing sanctuary city laws, even as Homeland Security Officials descended on New York to demand more cooperation.

Mamdani blames Trump’s ‘year of cruelty’ for Renee Nicole Good’s death, repeats incendiary ‘murder’...

NYPost.com (Metro) 1/8 11:40P Patrick Reilly

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that the death of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent was the result of a “year of cruelty” from the Trump administration — as he doubled down on his incendiary declaration that it was a...

Prolific hotel investor strikes again, this time in Hell’s Kitchen

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 1/8 11:33P C. J. Hughes

A low-key but prolific investor in chain hotels has snapped up yet another property amid continuing signs of improvement for the hospitality sector. Mahesh Ratanji recently purchased a Holiday Inn Express at 538 W. 48th St., an 11-story, 177-room...

More med spa licenses revoked after sweeping investigation into unsafe medical practices

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 1/8 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

The New York Department of State issued citations to 87 "med spa" businesses for operating without licenses or failing to have proper safety protocols in place following a sweeping statewide investigation into the industry. In the city, the...

Op-ed: How Mamdani can make NYC green AND affordable

CrainsNewYork.com (International) 1/8 5:03A Carter Strickland , John Surico

Floods in October claimed the lives of two more basement residents, a visceral reminder that poor New Yorkers suffer the most from extreme weather and that housing is intertwined with climate. Coming just weeks before an election in which climate...

Hochul to expand free child care in New York City, handing a win to Mamdani

CrainsNewYork.com (Advertising & Marketing) 1/8 3:51A Nick Garber

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Thursday to significantly expand free child care across the state, including new efforts in New York City — handing a major, if partial, victory to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on a promise of universal...

Business leaders parse Mamdani’s first moves

CrainsNewYork.com (Advertising & Marketing) 1/7 11:33P Nick Garber

For months, New York’s business community has wondered whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani would keep his warm posture toward the private sector, or govern as the democratic socialist boogeyman they feared. The answer, from his first days in office, has...

The peril of Mamdani and Weaver’s communist college kids’ field trip in New York City

NYPost.com (Opinion) 1/7 7:54A Jonathan Turley

Zohran Mamdani and his cadre engage in chest-pounding about their intentions to "seize the means of production" while living off their parents. Their problem: socialism has never succeeded.

Julie Menin elected council speaker, pledges to be ‘proactive’ in powerful post

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 1/7 7:43A Nick Garber

Julie Menin was unanimously elected Speaker of the City Council on Wednesday, elevating the Upper East Side moderate to one of the most powerful posts in the city in which she can both bolster and hamstring Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s agenda. Menin...

Mamdani appoints civil rights attorney to lead city human rights commission

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 1/7 6:40A Julianne Cuba

Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapped Christine Clarke, chief of litigation and advocacy at Legal Services NYC, to run the city's Commission on Human Rights. Clarke, who now leads Legal Services' strategic advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers,...

NYC fights sale of bankrupt rentals after Mamdani blasts living conditions

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 1/7 5:46A Jonathan Randles, Bloomberg

Newly-inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agenda is facing its first test as the city balks at the  bankruptcy sale  of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments owned by Pinnacle Group, where residents have railed against...

Conway kicks off campaign for NYC House seat with anti-Trump ad

CrainsNewYork.com (Politics) 1/6 9:34A Raga Justin, Bloomberg

George Conway, an attorney and prominent critic of President Donald Trump, on Tuesday launched his congressional campaign Tuesday with an ad focused on his adversarial relationship with the president. Conway, a Republican who switched to the...

Developer secures land for city's largest public EV charging station

CrainsNewYork.com (Health Care) 1/6 7:25A C. J. Hughes

Plans for what is being billed as the city’s largest public charging station for electric vehicles are a big step closer to reality. Wildflower, a frequent developer of EV-focused projects, has purchased a 2.5-acre squiggle of land near John F....