New York racing regulators have failed to take action against drug buyers for years, even after federal law enforcement gave ...

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This story is a collaboration between New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School. Terrell Eleby, a Brooklyn native ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. As his re-election prospects dimmed, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s ...

Zohran Mamdani barely campaigned on climate. The New York City mayor-elect’s overwhelming focus has been on affordability, from an early ad declaring that “the cost of living is the real crisis” to ...

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The attorney general’s conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it’s received since 2012. The New York AG conviction review bureau has rarely ...