New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said that over the past year, the city has managed not only to increase the stock of affordable housing, as planned, but also to build more buildings in this category than expected. However, the mayor noted that New York still has areas to improve in. ...

Last week, New Yorkers were given the opportunity to apply for a municipal ID. The document is a lot like a state resident certificate (driver's license), but it has a number of significant differences. The certificate does not allow you to drive a car, however, you can use it to open bank accounts, participate in ...

On January 12, the New York City Hall began issuing new plastic ID cards to all residents of the metropolis. This program, the largest of its kind in the country, is designed to provide identification cards to everyone living in the city, but it is primarily aimed at immigrants...

New York-based news agency DNAinfo analyzed all of Mayor Bill de Blasio's speeches in 2014 and compiled a list of the words and phrases that the head of the city used the most in his speeches, interviews and comments. During the year, the mayor made public speeches 314 ...

  There is less than a month left until the famous American Groundhog Day. Staten Island's Chuck the Groundhog, who holds the unofficial position of New York City's chief meteorologist, predicts how soon spring will come by looking at his shadow every year. According to a long-standing tradition, the groundhog making his “prediction” is picked up...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned police officers who turned their backs on him at the funeral of Wen Jian Liu, one of two police officers killed late last year. According to the mayor, the protesters showed disrespect for their fallen colleagues and their families...

Carolyn Maloney, the House of Representatives Democrat in the US Congress, represents the 12th District of New York (Manhattan) there. For 15 years, Maloney has been trying to get pandas to be brought to zoos in New York from China, but so far without success. Zoos of the metropolis rich in exotic animals ...

The winners of the prestigious award "Man of the Year for Russian-Speaking America - 2014" have been selected In 2014, with the participation of the World Forum of Russian-Speaking Jewry and with the support of the American Council for World Jewry, the project "Man of the Year for Russian-Speaking America" ​​was established, which united the Russian-speaking communities of the country. ...

  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed a legislative act, according to which one of the streets in the Queens area should be named after the Russian writer and journalist Sergei Dovlatov. This information was confirmed on Thursday by correspondent. ITAR-TASS in the press service of de Blasio. ...

  A ceremony dedicated to the beginning of the Russian culture festival “Our Heritage” took place in the Egyptian Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio welcomed festival participants. As part of the annual festival, which is being held for the 12th time by the New York-based Russian-American Foundation,…