The Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine today released the 2026 edition of the Employer Violations Dashboard – a ...

Overtime spending has been a persistent budget challenge in New York City for more than a decade, rising from $1.66 billion in FY 2015 to $2.71 billion in FY 2025. The New York City Police Department ...

How do you address the challenges of a public school system with just under one million students across over fifteen hundred schools, where some schools face severe overcrowding and large class sizes, ...

As 2025 draws to a close, we look at recent trends and developments in New York City’s economy as a guide to what we might expect for the year ahead and beyond. In this Spotlight report, we summarize ...

Good governance requires planning for future economic cycles so that public services are not interrupted or degraded during times of fiscal stress. One crucial element of such planning is the ...

While gun violence in New York City has declined since its peak in the 1990s, shootings persist and are heavily focused in a small handful of neighborhoods including the South Bronx, Brownsville, East ...

Climate change is bringing more extreme weather to New York City, from frequent heat waves to wildfire smoke. Outdoor workers, such as construction and transportation workers who perform physically ...

Over the past decade, Citi Bike has become a vital part of New York City’s transportation landscape. As the nation’s largest bikeshare system, Citi Bike enables millions of trips each month and has a ...

New York City’s Local Law 97 (LL97), the most ambitious city-wide building energy law in the country, will go into effect in 2024, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the building sector 40 ...

New York City is at the brink of an energy affordability crisis—one that poses a growing threat to both household budgets and public health. As climate change drives more extreme temperatures, the ...

New York and the nation have reached a critical juncture. As many reckon anew with our country’s history of systemic racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration, it is time to take a fresh, clear ...

New York City’s human service contractors deliver critical services to residents every day, representing $8 billion in spending in Fiscal Year 2024. With federal funding for nonprofit service ...