In his state of the budget address earlier this month, Cuomo proposed a reduction of juvenile beds from 1,209 to 833. He also wants to reduce the Office of Child and Family Services’ budget by $149 million and provide reimbursement incentives for local alternatives to incarceration for low and medium risk juvenile offenders.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for the tough cuts he made in his 2011-2012 executive budget proposal, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy with it.
In the footage, the investigator, acting as a buyer, told the dealer that he probably wouldn't pass a background check--but was allowed to purchase a semi-automatic pistol anyway.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $10 million dollar plan to help low performing elementary and middle schools. The money will go to 532 schools where more than two-thirds of the students performed below grade level on last year’s english and math proficiency exams.
The city did get much less snow--about nine inches was reported in Central Park. But Mayor Bloomberg says the response to this storm was unparalleled.
Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith admitted that the city's response was not as effective as it should have been.
The administration is being questioned in detail for the first time about its cleanup efforts in the wake of the blizzard, which dumped more than two feet of snow in some parts of the city.
New figures out today suggest tourism in the Big Apple is getting back on track after the recession.
The Callery Pear tree, which has come to be known as the "Survivor Tree," has been recovering at a Parks Department facility in the Bronx. New York City Mayor Bloomberg and 9/11 survivors replanted the tree today in Lower Manhattan.
On his weekly WOR radio show this morning, Mayor Bloomberg reiterated the city's desire to make New York a center of engineering and technology.
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