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

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

Column | Men’s Health Month: Why preventive care matters more than ever

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Brooklyn Cyclones 2026 promo schedule: Full list of giveaway nights and special events