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Since the beginning of this year, New York City has been using a practice known as congestion pricing. The program in which congestion pricing stems from is the Central Business District Tolling Program, or the CBDTP. The CBDTP started on January 5, 2025, but it faced a number of delays prior to its official start. It first .... Read More

Uber Technologies Inc., just days before the presidential election, proposes a cut to their New York City drivers’ base pay rate. The company is reportedly seeking to lower the prices of their rides and claims that the only way they will be able to do so is by cutting their drivers wages. The company is calling on the New .... Read More

Tropical Storm Debby is brewing and moving up north, causing New Yorkers to start their preparations for the storm. In some ways, they have already begun to feel the effects of the storm, seeing heavy rainfall starting Tuesday. The rain continued off and on through Wednesday, being felt in all five boroughs. However, expert .... Read More

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted on Monday night to raise rents for rent-stabilized apartments. The board decided, by a narrow 5-4 margin, to increase rents by 2.75% for one-year leases and by 5.25% for two-year leases. This decision will affect around one million rent-stabilized apartments, impacting about two .... Read More

A judge decided that a change to New York's rules, meant to stop unfair treatment based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes," can't be voted on in November. This is because lawmakers didn't follow the right steps when they first said yes to it. Both Democrats and Republicans wanted this change to be on the ballot t .... Read More

The New York City Council has asked the highest court in the state to overturn two decisions. This move would allow noncitizen immigrants to vote in city elections. Last year, the City Council passed a law allowing 800,000 noncitizens with green cards to vote in local ele .... Read More

The strongest snowstorm to ever approach the East coast is likely to totally terrorize the New York City area. All because it happens to be Wintertime. With that being the understanding, there's a huge chance that the storm passing through will definitely cause ripples through the region. Furthermore, the flights in the are .... Read More

With the New Year's Eve celebration come and gone, you would think that 2024 is off to a sleepy start. But nothing could be further from the truth for the people. Of course, this comes from early reports from a Geological Survey that had reported the earthquake as being very near the Astoria, Queens area. In fact, the earth .... Read More

The Board of Elections in New York City have declared record low results for voter turnout during the most recent election. It's really quite heartbreaking. It's certainly very concerning that there haven't been more of the population to vote in the election given that it all could be better off. This is all very worrisome .... Read More

In Albany, the state ethics commission had been able to conduct their very own first meeting upon Wednesday afternoon, as it quickly follows the justice decision made on the part of the state Supreme Court. All the while, there's been a discovery that the agency was made in a violation of the state constitution while it als .... Read More