City Limits and Gotham Gazette put aside their long and sometimes violent rivalry to discuss Mayor de Blasio’s relationship with the press, money in the 2017 campaign, and the upcoming weeklong City Hall in the Bronx.
An analysis of contributions to candidates for citywide, borough-level and Council posts indicates that people from 45 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have made donations.
Though the rezoning continues to be controversial and advocates say harassment is on the rise, the administration says it has already begun to deliver on a number of the negotiated benefits.
Local representatives are beginning the long-awaited move to define just what area of lower Manhattan might be covered by a “Chinatown” rezoning that the de Blasio administration has said it will initiate.