A bill introduced by Assemblymember Anna Kelles aims to harness home batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean tech to ...

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to unveil property tax reforms, he must weigh a plan he inherited from his predecessor.

As Small Business Services commissioner, Kenny Minaya will be charged with slashing fees and helping street vendors.

An anti-development New York City Councilmember approved a project in her district rather than risk being overruled by a new ...

The state rescinded its request to dismiss a sexual abuse lawsuit after a judge became aware of New York Focus’s findings.

John J. Lennon is a contributing editor at Esquire and the author of The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the ...

When the governor doesn't commute sentences, and the legislature won't act, the carrot-and-stick system of rehabilitation ...

Over his more than two decades as a clean energy entrepreneur and commentator, Jigar Shah has established himself as one of ...

This story is a collaboration between New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School. Terrell Eleby, a Brooklyn native ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. For years, Barbara Small fought to hold onto her house in Flatbush ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. On a frigid weeknight last month, the grandstand at the Yonkers Raceway ...

If you live in New York City, get ready for a big electric bill this month. Behind the spike is a little-known, deeply bureaucratic process: Meet the “rate case.” It’s a long, winding, technical ...