Politics NY News Headlines Archive for January 22, 2025

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Nassau

Blakeman: My 2025 budget is the third in a row with no tax increase

By Bruce Blakemn

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Queens

Mayor Adams shares 90-day progress of Operation Restore Roosevelt

By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Tiffany Cabán criticizes Hochul and Adams over controversial mental health and involuntary commitment policies

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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch criticizes laws allowing dangerous criminals to remain on the streets during a press conference Wednesday.

Crime

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch calls for laws to be changed to prevent repeat offenders from walking the streets

By Dean Moses

Council Member Farah N. Louis addresses town hall in Brooklyn on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity in July 2024.

Brooklyn

Caribbean pols join Brooklyn Dems in honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Nelson A. King

Mayor Eric Adams touted on Wednesday that over the course of his administration, the NYPD has taken some 20,000 illegal guns off the streets of the city as he heads into reelection season.

Mayor touts that NYPD has removed 20,000 illegal guns off city streets throughout his administration

By Dean Moses

Mayor Eric Adams gestures while speaking about President Donald Trump on Jan. 21

Politics

Adams unloads on Biden in bombshell interview with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson

By Ethan Stark-Miller

The New York Supreme Court sided with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman's law banning transgender women from competing in women's sports, which he signed into law in July.

Nassau

Nassau judge upholds Blakeman’s ban on trans women in sports

By Nicole Formisano

This area on Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard was penalized for being an abandoned, unpermitted Mobile Food Vending Operation. (3,000 pounds of produce confiscated & donated).BEFORE

Queens

Illegal fruit vendors face enforcement sweeps in Queens led by Senator Addabbo and DSNY

By Colum Motherway

More from Around New York

Tenants and members of Bronx Defenders, Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), New Settlement, Bronx Leadership Organizing Center, Met Council on Housing, PSC-CUNY and NYC-DSA rally outside of Hostos Community College ahead of the Bronx Rent Guidelines Board meeting.

‘The Bronx is not for sale’ Rent-stabilized tenants demand rent freeze at Bronx Rent Guidelines Board hearing

“By Hook Or By Crook” opens at Anthology Film Archives June 12.

‘By Hook or By Crook’: A trans breakthrough revived 25 years later

Matthew Rodriguez of Levittown, Long Island was tracked down in Virginia, where he had been a fugitive since shooting a 15-year-old boy on an A train in Ozone Park.

Long Islander held without bail for allegedly shooting a 15-year-old boy on a crowded A train in Ozone Park in April before fleeing the state: DA

NY: Game 3 NBA Finals

Live from Brooklyn Bowl: San Antonio Spurs dash Knicks fans’ hopes of a sweep in Game 3 of the NBA Finals