Mayor Zohran Mamdani will name Gregory Anderson to lead DSNY, returning a veteran sanitation operative to oversee containerization, composting and operations.

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.

A New York Times report says Peter Chatzky posted years of explicit Facebook material, complicating his self-funded bid to flip NY-17.

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 North Dakota family‑run firm tied to Fisher Sand & Gravel has reportedly become billionaires after winning billions in DHS border contracts, drawing environmental and procurement scrutiny.

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.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins suggested tying reporting frequency to company size at a DC Blockchain Summit keynote, reviving debate over quarterly filings.

Trump says a former president told him they “wished” they’d attacked Iran; representatives for Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden say they had not been in touch.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Commissioner Jessica Tisch formalized a 30‑day timeline for releasing body‑worn camera footage in qualifying cases, pledging faster transparency while keeping legal exceptions.

A drone struck the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center near the U.S. embassy, Iraqi security forces said; no injuries were reported as officials investigate.

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.