Security Firm Billed for Hundreds of Eight-Hour Shifts at Migrant Shelters. Internal Records Tell a Different Story.

Security Firm Billed for Hundreds of Eight-Hour Shifts at Migrant Shelters. Internal Records Tell a Different Story.

By Greg B. Smith, thecity.nyc | Editorial Credit: Yuri A. / shutterstck.com  A Long Island security firm routinely billed taxpayers for full eight-hour shifts at one of the city’s biggest migrant shelters, even as daily time logs kept by staff show hundreds of entries in which guards recorded arrival times later than the shifts started […]

Leading New York City Progressive, Mulling 2025 Challenge To Eric Adams, To Blast Mayor’s Budget Cuts

Leading New York City Progressive, Mulling 2025 Challenge To Eric Adams, To Blast Mayor’s Budget Cuts

Brad lander. Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Madina Toure | Politico NEW YORK — New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is joining an eleventh-hour push to thwart unpopular cuts to the city’s preschool program as he inches closer to challenging Mayor Eric Adams’ reelection bid next year. Lander, a progressive Democrat occupying a […]

New York by the Numbers Monthly Economic and Fiscal Outlook

New York by the Numbers Monthly Economic and Fiscal Outlook

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By NYC Comptroller Brad Lander A Message from the Comptroller Dear New Yorkers, Last month, Mayor Adams empaneled a Charter Revision Commission, ostensibly to review the City Charter and propose ways to improve City government. While there is good reason to doubt Mayor Adams’ motives for hastily appointing the […]

NYC Comptroller Lander, Mayor Adams, Public Advocate Williams, NYCERS Pension Trustees

NYC Comptroller Lander, Mayor Adams, Public Advocate Williams, NYCERS Pension Trustees

Editorial credit: Ron Adar / Shutterstock.com By Comptroller Press Office New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and trustees of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) today announced an investment of up to $60 million to preserve rent-stabilized housing units impacted […]

Attorney General James and Comptroller Lander Secure Nearly $230,000 for Building Employees Cheated Out of Fair Pay

Attorney General James and Comptroller Lander Secure Nearly $230,000 for Building Employees Cheated Out of Fair Pay

Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com   New York, NY – New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Comptroller Brad Lander today announced a settlement totaling almost $230,000 with a contracting agency and the Board of Managers of a New York City condominium building for failing to pay workers in the building the […]

NYC Comptroller Report Finds 1,000+ Buildings with Chronic Lack of Heat Over Past 5 Years; City Failed to Enforce Action in 25% of Those Buildings

NYC Comptroller Report Finds 1,000+ Buildings with Chronic Lack of Heat Over Past 5 Years; City Failed to Enforce Action in 25% of Those Buildings

New York, NY USA – November 3, 2022 : Fire trucks and an ambulance responding to an apartment fire on the second-to-top floor at the NYCHA Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, New York City. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – In a new report, “Turn Up the Heat,” issued on the one-year anniversary of the tragic Twin Parks […]

Comptroller Lander: More Than 1300 Workers Are Entitled to Nearly $3 Million in Prevailing Wages

Bureau of Labor Law recoups unpaid wages with interest for workers regardless of their immigration status, whether or not they still live in New York City.

Comptroller Lander: More Than 1300 Workers Are Entitled to Nearly $3 Million in Prevailing Wages

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander speaks in support of Immigrant Workers During May Day Parade at Washington Square Park in New York City on May 1, 2022. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced that more than 1300 workers are entitled to payments totaling nearly $3 million from prevailing wage settlements […]

NYC Department of Education Slow to Spend Federal COVID Stimulus Funds, NYC Comptroller Finds

NYC Department of Education Slow to Spend Federal COVID Stimulus Funds, NYC Comptroller Finds

New York City Council member and candidate for city Comptroller Brad Lander attends the “Hometown Heroes” Ticker Tape Parade on July 07, 2021 in New York City. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Brad Lander released a spending update, which found that the NYC Department of Education (DOE) has been slow to spend federal […]