Nydia Velázquez: “It is unfortunate that it is still that high. So, we obviously have a lot of work to do to get that unemployment rate…”

America's 33 million small businesses are the cornerstones of our local economies.

Short-sighted attacks on the Council, by some of my colleagues across the aisle will only compromise our ability to appropriately protect the air and water quality and public health that our communities rely on.

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.

It is a disservice to our nation's small firms to oversimplify this issue, as a mere consequence of federal spending.