Ben Brachfeld

“We are not COVID, and we are not a virus."

"Unless we change this specific issue, everything we do every budget season will never change."

One adjunct said he was laid-off a month before he stopped teaching.

The city’s Board of Elections has not made public a finalized plan for addressing COVID-19 at the polls in the Queens Borough President special election.

"I can’t imagine what 500 people having a wonderful inebriated time watching an immersive theater experience would do to our side streets."

This was the first time the federal monitor had appeared before the council since his appointment to the post in March.

“We are imposing fines without any consideration to what is financially significant to a person."

Bus service in the Bronx remains some of the worst in New York, a titanic feat in a city where service overall is some of the slowest and most unreliable in the nation.

The legislation would disqualify the discovery of someone's LGBTQ status as an extreme emotional disturbance, therefore prohibiting its use as a mitigating defense.