Highest Ranking City Official Supports Legalization of Weed
What a week for weed. Days after the police commissioner and mayor held a joint press conference to announce sweeping new changes to NYC’s pot polices — ironically bringing them more inline with the...
View ArticleCity Council Voices Concerns Over Uber’s Privacy Standards
San Francisco-based taxi app start-up Uber has come under a lot of scrutiny from all sides recently, with accusations of sexism, breaches of privacy with customer data, and allegations of unfair pay....
View ArticleCity Councilman Wants The Skyline To Turn Off The Lights At Night
Councilman Donovan Richards is set to propose a limit on the number of lights commercial buildings in NYC are allowed to keep on at night. Richards sees the legislation as an effort to curb carbon...
View ArticleA Warrant For Police Drones? City Council Bill Would Do That And More
A new bill being introduced to the City Council seeks to require cops to have a warrant if they want to use a drone in the line of duty. It would also entirely ban the use of drones by regular...
View ArticleCity Moves To Honor Slain Officers With Street Signs In Brooklyn
City officials announced on Wednesday that they are moving to honor slain Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos by naming two Brooklyn streets after them. Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker...
View ArticleCity Officials To Confront Uber’s Controversial Surge Pricing
With the value of taxi medallions dropping and cries for regulations from leaders in the transit industry, Uber is now going to face more scrutiny from city officials. City Council members will meet...
View ArticleHeated Hearing Finds Airbnb Facing Fuming Protests
The proceedings didn’t go very well for the room-sharing service Airbnb when it faced the New York City Council on Tuesday. Tempers were high among council members as well as protesters who believe...
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5 Great Works of Public Art That Wouldn’t Have Existed If the City Council’s...
Last week, the City Council passed a bill that will require a hearing before some works of public art are installed. The bill, which was drafted as a response to public outcry over The Sunbather, a...
View ArticleCity Council To Make Pointless Gesture About Carbon Footprints
Today from 12-1 PM, the offices of the New York City Council will turn out all the lights in order to “raise awareness of energy conversation and the availability of daylight during standard work...
View ArticleThe NYPD Really Really Really Wants to be Allowed to Use Chokeholds
Commissioner Bill Bratton went before the City Council yesterday to plead his case that fuck what y’all say, the NYPD is still gonna choke people and pretty much just keep doing everything it’s been...
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