Haley Brown

1 week ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown

The Big Apple may soon be flush with shiny new toilets. A bill passed by City Council Thursday directs officials to come up with a plan to create a citywide network of public restrooms. “Right now we don’t have a plan. We don’t have a strategy. We have a hodgepodge of agency-specific processes that create a disjointed, stunted and some might call foul approach,” bill sponsor, Councilmember Sandy Nurse said Thursday before the council unanimously voted in support of the legislation.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown |Matt Troutman

It’s a meltdown over ICE. Eric Adams’ top deputy mayor insisted Thursday that ICE won’t start deporting inmates en masse from a resurrected outpost on Rikers Island — as progressive City Council members threatened to sue Hizzoner for allegedly betraying sanctuary city policies.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown

Mayor Eric Adams did an about-face on the state’s controversial class size law Wednesday — announcing New York City will hire thousands of new teachers after saying for years that the mandate was unaffordable. The city will give the already-bloated city Department of Education extra cash to hire 3,700 teachers across 750 public schools to help shrink classroom headcounts, the mayor said.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Haley Brown

Mayor Eric Adams did an about-face on the state’s controversial class size law Wednesday — announcing New York City will hire thousands of new teachers after saying for years that the mandate was unaffordable. The city will give the already-bloated city Department of Education extra cash to hire 3,700 teachers across 750 public schools to help shrink classroom headcounts, the mayor said.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Craig McCarthy |Craig Mccarthy |Haley Brown

The city’s Department of Education failed to inspect an overwhelming majority of Big Apple schools for the toxic material asbestos — with more than four out of five buildings falling far short of federal standards, a shocking new audit found. The audit by the New York City Comptroller’s Office obtained exclusively by The Post found that more than 82% of the city’s 1,700 schools built with the known carcinogen were not examined over the required three-year time frame.