New York City

A few months ago, immigrants’-rights organizations in New York City began receiving curious legal documents in the mail. The documents requested that the groups send lawyers to immigration hearings on behalf of clients whom they had never heard of before. Soon, large numbers of people began showing up at the…

The Texas governor has transported more than 1,500 illegal immigrants to New York City...Read More

Dive Brief: Boston-based Suffolk Construction has begun turning a former industrial building into a high-tech life sciences facility in an effort to help address the space shortage in New York City’s biotech industry, according to a press release shared with Construction Dive. The gut renovation and redevelopment of the 218,000-square-foot,…

The fact that poliovirus was detected in New York City wastewater samples as far back as April of this year shouldn't be surprising, as the virus likely has been circulating for longer and more widely than previously believed, several experts told MedPage Today. "I think you're gonna see over the…

Two ghost gun retailers have agreed to stop selling kits and parts to residents in New York City, where officials say incidents involving the homemade and untraceable weapons have been dangerously escalating for years. Rainier Arms, an online retailer that specializes in AR-10 and AR-15 rifles, reached a settlement with…

Freshman Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones lost his bid for a second term Tuesday after choosing to run for a New York City seat rather than challenge another incumbent near his former home north of the city.  Jones, who in 2020 became one of the first two openly gay Black men…

Posted August 23, 2022 at 9:53pm Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, will be leaving Congress after losing a bruising Democratic primary to Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler. The race came about after a court-appointed special master created a redistricting map that put Nadler’s…

New York police are looking for two men who they say impersonated police officers, broke into a woman's home and robbed her of $10,000. Video from the incident late last month shows two men, with flashlights and wearing New York Police Department shirts, approaching the woman's Queens door. One of…

CQ Roll Call photojournalist Tom Williams spent the weekend in New York City covering the House primary campaigns in New York’s 10th and 12th districts. The post Roll Call on the Road: Big Apple appeared first on Roll Call...Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who twice led fights to impeach former President Donald Trump, defeated U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary Tuesday after a court forced the two veteran lawmakers into the same New York City congressional district. Nadler’s victory ends a 30-year run…