Politics NY News Headlines Archive for August 8, 2025

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards calls for flood mitigation infrastructure to be installed on the Cross Island Parkway. Photo: Shane O'Brien

Queens

Queens leaders call for flood signage and infrastructure in Bay Terrace

By Shane O’Brien

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NYC Public Advocate candidate Gonzalo Duran, Bronx conservatives, call out ‘rising tide of socialism’ in city

By Ethan Marshall

NY: Rally to loosen rules on Local Law 18 for homeowners

Brooklyn

‘Hosting changed everything’: NYC Airbnb hosts fight back against rental law

By Gabriele Holtermann

Students are learning at Vaughn College's state-of-the-art simulator center to address the demand for more air traffic controllers in the New York City airspace, chronic shortages across the country, and the need for more than 71,000 air traffic controllers globally over the next decade.

Queens

AOC, Suozzi celebrate new expanded air traffic controller program at Vaughn College

By Bill Parry

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Rendering of River Commons.

Mayor Mamdani, NYC Health + Hospitals break ground on $255M River Commons, bringing 328 affordable affordable homes to the South Bronx

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Rental prices up across the board in Queens in May 2026: report

Fair tolls: Local pols aim to reduce Verrazzano toll for Brooklynites

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to unfurl massive flag for America 250