New York Focus

Maria, a 34-year-old construction worker, learned last November that her 11-year-old son had crossed the southern border into the United States with his cousins. They’d traveled from Ecuador, wading through rivers and trudging through jungle, and ended up in a foster care facility in Manhattan. Maria figured she would soon be able to bring her son to her home in Corona, Queen...

A final cash infusion from Albany will help New York City close its multibillion-dollar budget gap — allowing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to declare victory on Tuesday, though he didn’t get anything close to the full tax-the-rich agenda he campaigned on.

Mamdani’s new $125 billion executive budget hinges on a number of state policies that remain up in the air, like the pied-à-...

Despite having room to serve more children, Middletown day care owner Peggy Fuentes often has to turn away families in desperate need of care. Each of her toddler classrooms has 10 students — the state caps class sizes for that age group at 12 — but to fill the remaining seats, she’d have to hire another employee. That’s because a decades-old state regulation says day care cl...

In mid-April, following three deaths and amid mounting frustration, Deputy Superintendent of Security Michel Blot was transferred from his role in the state’s maximum security women’s prison back to Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

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In his two decades as New York’s comptroller, Tom DiNapoli has filed lawsuits securing hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from corporations he’s accused of defrauding the state’s main pension fund.

The main beneficiaries of DiNapoli’s litigation are retired government workers whose pensions are supported by the fund. But the cases are also big business for ...