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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One Bronx artist wants employees—not CEOs, to have a hall of fame

Taylor Brown, the executive director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.

Mamdani administration reaffirms that trans athletes ‘can play the sports they love’ in NYC

A 13-year-old boy from College Point was killed and another 13-year-old was critically injured when the scooter he was operating in East Flushing was nearly doored by an elderly man, throwing the passenger into the path of a truck on Monday, June 29.

College Point teen, 13, killed while riding on scooter in Flushing: NYPD

NY: Sporting Club Gjøa – France vs Norway

Sporting Club Gjøa turns Brooklyn clubhouse into Norway’s World Cup home away from home