NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced agreement Wednesday on a $98.7 billion NYC "recovery budget" for FY 2022. "This is a radical investment in ...

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s expected mayoral campaign is based in part on a big small-dollar gamble. When Johnson announced in January that he was exploring a bid for mayor – he hasn’t made ...

New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney endorsed Corey Johnson for city comptroller on Wednesday, adding more congressional ballast to the City Council speaker’s run for the influential financial post. Maloney, ...

City Council Member Corey Johnson, a Manhattan Democrat, was elected speaker of the New York City Council with near unanimous support on Wednesday, becoming the first leader of the 51-member ...

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson punished a nonprofit that had protested against his recently passed budget by cutting $2.25 million in city funding for its new headquarters, the group alleges. The ...

Anderson was just 40 years old at the time of her death. America’s third president owned more than 100 slaves at the time of his death. Brian Benjamin will be the second Black man in NY history to ...