The SEC cleared Nasdaq to trade tokenized versions of select large-cap stocks and major ETFs, tying on‑chain tokens to DTC custody under a limited pilot.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan has temporarily frozen investors’ attempts to trace Argentine assets tied to a $16.1 billion YPF judgment, pausing U.S. discovery while appeals proceed.

Jessica Tisch told City Council an internal review found top NYPD officials using CRALO vehicles meant for undercover work. The department says it has begun reclaiming the fleet.

Dozens of home care workers staged a sit‑in at City Hall on March 18, pushing Mayor Mamdani and the Council to ban 24‑hour shifts and cap shifts at 12 hours.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch warns recent federal cuts to homeland- and port-security grants could weaken the department’s intelligence and counterterrorism work.

Preliminary tallies at Isaacs Houses show residents leaning to stay in Section 9 or back the new Trust, while private management (PACT) trails. Mail‑ins remain and a final certification is set for March 24.

Council members press the NYPD, prosecutors and oversight agencies on overtime, surveillance and missing community‑safety funding as FY27 hearings kick off.

A City Council bill would cap self‑checkout at 15 items and require one employee per three kiosks to tackle retail theft and protect workers.

Mamdani’s Law Department asked a Manhattan judge to let the city stop defending Eric Adams in a decades‑old sexual‑assault suit, saying the alleged acts weren’t city business. The filing shifts the fight toward Adams’s private legal team.

At a St. Patrick's Day breakfast at Gracie Mansion, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called silence around Gaza 'deafening' and later stumbled on a unified-Ireland question.

Leqaa Kordia, detained after a Columbia protest, was released from the Prairieland ICE facility in Texas on a $100,000 bond after more than a year in custody. Her case had drawn legal challenges and public pressure from officials and advocates.

An analysis found plaintiffs’ lawyers spent $179M on New York legal ads in 2025, a number Albany officials say is driving up premiums and prompting new anti-fraud proposals.

Assembly Republicans introduced a bill to adopt DOCCS' HALT committee recommendations, loosening limits on segregated confinement and setting up a policy fight in Albany.