Amanda Farias Archives – Politics NY

Majority Leader Amanda Farias celebrated passing the 'City of Yes for Housing Opportunity' zoning amendment.

Housing & Homelessness

Opinion | In a housing crisis, New Yorkers deserve clear Co-op application rules

By New York City Council Member Amanda Farías

Watch Amanda Farias: Candidate for NYC Council District 18 (Bronx)

By Skye Ostreicher

Politics

Cabán’s R.E.C.E.I.P.T.S. Act clears City Council, streamlines public benefits process

By Czarinna Andres

Politics

Cabán’s R.E.C.E.I.P.T.S. Act clears City Council, streamlines public benefits process

By Czarinna Andres

Bronx residents testify Monday at a public hearing on revising the City Charter.

Housing & Homelessness

Charter Commission hears Bronx backlash over zoning and land use policies

By Sadie Brown

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Several Bronx candidates secure key endorsements from labor, religion and housing groups in 2025 races

By Emily Swanson

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Op-Ed | March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

By City Council Majority Leader Amanda Farías

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, right, appointed Bronx Council Member Amanda Farías, left, as the body's new majority leader on Jan. 3, 2024. Pictured, the pair visit the Ghetto Film School in Mott Haven on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.

Farías makes history as first Latina majority leader in women-majority City Council

By Camille Botello

The Bronx's CD-18 Council Member Amanda Farías.

Column: Wrapping up my first term as your council member

By Amanda Farías

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City Council tackles bills that aim to boost menstrual product access for students and inmates

By Sarah Belle Lin

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Speaker Adams to deliver State of the City in Soundview on Wednesday

By Aliya Schneider

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Will newly redrawn City Council district lines reflect and preserve the Bronx’s decade-long growth of ethnic communities?

By Robbie Sequeira

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Four Bronx council members give communities a say with participatory budgeting

By Aliya Schneider

Politics

SNAPSHOTS | Amanda Farías eyes transit, education improvements

By Aliya Schneider

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2021 Elections: Who’s running for City Council in the 18th District?

By Alex Mitchell

More from Around New York

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What’s happening: An artist talk at Bronx Documentary Center, a tour of Hart Island and more

Eloy Pohu in "Enzo."

Overview of LGBTQ-themed films at Rendez-vous with French Cinema

Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a creep who allegedly groped a woman inside the Court Square-23rd Street subway station on the morning of Sunday, March 1.

Creep groped woman on escalator inside Court Square subway station in LIC: NYPD

Cesar Sajulan Ultimate Baking Championship

Cesar Ryan Sajulan brings Brooklyn flavor to Food Network’s ‘The Ultimate Baking Championship’