Democratic candidates running for the New York City mayoral primary are promoting a harsher stance on crime and public safety ...

State Senator Zellnor Myrie, who was once pepper sprayed by the police, released a plan to hire 3,000 additional police ...

Endorsements from individuals and organizations can help voters better understand policy differences between candidates in these cases where little or no other news coverage of policy stances exists.

A New York judge ruled Tuesday that a state law that moves various local elections to even years violates the state ...

The second lawsuit, filed last February by the Brooklyn-based advocacy group New York Communities for Change, alleged racially polarized voting occurred in Nassau and the redistricting plan "dilutes ...