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Two studies found that in New York CIty, 150,000 undocumented immigrants would likely obtain driver's licenses if the law was changed to allow it. Letting unauthorized immigrants in New York City get driver's licenses would generate $9.6 million in fees for the state's coffers, boost car sales and lower insurance premiums, a new analysis by City Controller Scott Stringer found.
Last Friday Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America. As in so many other offensive things he has tweeted since November, Trump began this year by trying to besmirch the reputation of John Lewis and his courageous actions in turning the USA away from its segregationist past and setting it on a path to achieve its founders' dreams.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to President Donald Trump's Manhattan home on Saturday in protest, saying the new president may be from New York, but he doesn't represent the city. "New York is a community in itself and people care about each other and it's diverse," said Ashia Badi, 44, who brought her two daughters to the march.
New York state lawmakers began their work for 2017 Wednesday with a vote to prohibit the use of cellphones as recording devices in the Senate chambers. The ban is intended to protect the chamber's decorum, according to lawmakers who included it in the Senate's internal rules.
The politicians who have taken New York City to court over its plans to destroy copies of personal documents used to grant its municipal ID card are wasting their time. Assembly Members Nicole Malliotakis and Ron Castorina filed suit after Mayor de Blasio got on his anti-Trump soapbox and threatened to shred the materials lest they fall into the hands of a President who might use them to deport illegal immigrants en masse, including in so-called sanctuary cities.
In 1977, the Village Voice sent the young freelance photographer Bill Bernstein to Studio 54, though not to shoot the fabulous freaks cutting loose below its trademark "Man in the Moon with a Cocaine Spoon" sign. He was there, instead, to take pictures of an event celebrating President Jimmy Carter's mother, Lillian, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who was being honored at the venue by for her humanitarian work.
There is, in the parts of New York City above 125th Street, something called the chopped-cheese sandwich, or, as one local calls it, the drug-dealer sandwich. As a former resident of the South Bronx who was before that a Philadelphia resident, I will let you in on a little secret: The chopped-cheese sandwich is a knock-off of the Philly cheesesteak sandwich, which is itself - how to put this gently? - garbage food.
In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in American history, I had to walk into the auditorium of New York City's Police Headquarters to brief the family members of 23 New York City police officers who had gone missing. We would later learn that their courage and heroism cost them their lives.
The "Subway Therapy" sticky notes posted throughout the New York City after the presidential election will be preserved by the New York Historical Society in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Post-It notes started popping up in the subway tunnel walkway along 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues after president-elect Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, DNAinfo New York noted .
In the waning days of President Barack Obama's administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was late October, Friday the 21st, and the president had spent many of the previous weeks, as he would spend the two subsequent weeks, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
WIN: Shares in banks have soared by 20% since Election Day, making them the hottest sector in the stock market. The rally is fueled by hopes a Trump administration will deliver lower taxes and less regulation, while also stimulating the economy.
President-elect Donald Trump has made big promises when it comes to building new highways, tunnels, bridges and airports in America - and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hoping he makes good on his word. Cuomo has embarked on projects to rebuild Penn Station and LaGuardia and Kennedy airports, and to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge.
Police in riot gear confront demonstrators outside City Hall during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in Los Angeles, Nov. 13, 2016. Anti-Trump protesters hold signs as they gather at The Linq Promenade before marching on the Las Vegas Strip, Nov. 12, 2016, in Las Vegas.
NOVEMBER 09: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concedes the presidential election at the New Yorker Hotel on November 9, 2016 in New York City. Republican candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election in the early hours of the morning in a widely unforeseen upset.
It's hard line on news radio 930 WV and good morning this is Dave Bebo. We have talked a lot about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump but it is not the only thing on the ballot.
We long-time New Yorkers know well Donald Trump's brand of conservatism. It is rooted in the working class districts of New York City outside the wealthy avenues of Manhattan.
Donald Trump gestures as he answers questions from John Paulson at the Economic Club of New York Linguist Deborah Tannen 's research helped save my marriage - and if he could only get control of himself, it could improve Donald Trump's abysmal performance in the American presidential debates. But I doubt Trump will listen.
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