Category: Politics

BROOKLYN — Applications for city residents to join one of Brooklyn’s 18 community boards — the city’s most grassroots level of local government — are open until Feb. 14, 2025, at 11 p.m. The boards are local bodies that weigh in on topics such as local land use matters, liquor licenses, transportation projects, local businesses…

BROOKLYN — Applications for city residents to join one of Brooklyn’s 18 community boards — the city’s most grassroots level of local government — are open until Feb. 14, 2025, at 11 p.m. The boards are local bodies that weigh in on topics such as local land use matters, liquor licenses, transportation projects, local businesses…

CITYWIDE — Mayor Eric Adams announced his plan to “Axe the Tax for the Working Class,” a proposal to bring New York City Personal Income Tax relief to working-class families.  “This ambitious plan will put more than $63 million back into the pockets of over 582,000 New Yorkers, and, when combined with the New York…

A marriage official offers a couple their rings during their wedding at the Empire State Building in New York, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2007. AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews, File New York repealed on Friday a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse — a misdemeanor that once could have landed…

Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee. Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 5, 2024, means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to…

BAY RIDGE — There was revelry in the air at the Brooklyn Republican Party’s election night watch party on Tuesday, Nov. 5, as the GOP celebrated some significant wins.  The event, which took place at the Bay Ridge Manor and hosted approximately 200 people, saw Republican Steven Chan, a former U.S. Marine and retired New…

BAY RIDGE — There was revelry in the air at the Brooklyn Republican Party’s election night watch party on Tuesday, Nov. 5, as the GOP celebrated some significant wins.  The event, which took place at the Bay Ridge Manor and hosted approximately 200 people, saw Republican Steven Chan, a former U.S. Marine and retired New…

Voters cast their ballots at the P.S. 256 in Brooklyn on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura Democrats in New York unseated two first-term Republican incumbents in the U.S. House on Tuesday, one in the Hudson Valley and the other in a district that includes Syracuse, rolling back some recent GOP gains…

Brooklyn officials and advocates gathered on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall Saturday to urge voters to “flip the ballot” and vote for Proposition One. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Ignore the misinformation and vote “Yes” on Proposition One to pass New York’s Equal Rights Amendment, a host of Brooklyn officials and…

Abortion rights activists gather for a protest following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, at Washington Square Park, June 24, 2022, in New York. AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights.…