New York Focus zeros in on the details of what goes on in the state capital. And the reporting has had some impressive results.

DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

The controversial units have been responsible for high-profile killings and civil rights abuses in cities nationwide. Hochul doubled their state grant…

Lawmakers who own their homes are far less likely to back tenant protections and new housing supply than those who rent.

DCPI has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.

There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.

As the state's plans to get New Yorkers out of their cars stall, Governor Hochul is championing a highway expansion in the Hudson Valley.

Adams promised they'd be different. But a roster compiled by New York Focus shows that officers who trained for the new teams allegedly beat, harassed,…

Even as experts warn of mass ethnic cleansing in Gaza, New York politicians have remained unwavering in their support for Israel since the Hamas attack.…

A new policy prohibits incarcerated people from publishing writing or art without permission — and from getting paid.

Massena residents fought the local utility to bring their electric grid under public control. Forty years later, they say it’s still paying off.

Police officers who were decertified by state regulators went on to find work at other departments and public safety agencies, records show.

“Are you going to hire every single able-bodied Republican political operative?” Cuomo’s senior staff filled with top Republicans, to Democrats’…

Hochul says she's working with the legislature to replace congestion pricing, but key legislators say they aren't aware of any conversations.

As a humanitarian crisis deepens, the state’s $25 million solution is off to a slow start.

A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.

The confluence of rising commissary prices, stagnant wages, and a package ban are making basic items inaccessible.

Since announcing her plan to put the program on ice, the governor has not appeared in public.

After the governor declined to answer questions, a New York Focus reporter was ejected from her event.

The constant gridlock is a major drag on Manhattan’s businesses, and source of frustration for commuters. And it's never been so bad.

New York has a long history of setting climate goals to great fanfare—and then missing them. A new climate law makes more promises, but will Governor…

Eric Adams pledged to cut police overtime in half. Instead, his initiatives helped it soar to the second-highest level on record.

Robert Adams alleges that a guard sodomized him with a baton. A year-long investigation into his story uncovered a system plagued by retaliation and…

Israeli settlers have unleashed a wave of violence on Palestinians. With tax-deductible donations, New Yorkers can help equip them to carry it out.

"We only ask, and the court sets the bail," the president of the state prosecutors' association said.

New York Focus found six big spenders who have poured money into PACs backing Kathy Hochul’s Republican challenger.

Only big, strong, mean grassroots campaigns can turn this around

Legislators wanted to make judges warn defendants about deportation risks. They say Kathy Hochul’s veto left them blindsided.

The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.

After months of conflict involving alleged intimidation and potentially illegal firings, workers at Queens Defenders voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

Anthony Sims’ case shows the conflict of interest inherent in Conviction Review Units led by former prosecutors, critics say.

Not a single prosecutor appeared to have been disciplined for on-the-job misconduct in 2019. Even the state prosecutors association supports reforms.

After New York Focus revealed that Hochul had failed to disclose the individuals behind corporate donations to her campaign, she provided that information…

A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against big oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.

The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

It was hard enough to get back on Social Security and Medicaid after jail. Then Eric Adams slashed reentry services.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.

“We sleep together like chickens”: Street homeless New Yorkers describe the struggle to endure the pandemic-era winter.

An appellate court ordered hearings for defendants facing orders of protection that could separate them from their homes and families. But some judges —…

Five months after a law to scale back solitary confinement went into effect, a majority of the New York prison system’s solitary population had been held…

Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.

After a private equity firm purchased an upstate power plant, thousands of gallons of oil spilled into Lake Ontario. It’s part of a troubling pattern.

The legislation cites multiple New York Focus investigations in its attempt to safeguard the rights of incarcerated people.

Madeline Singas, a close Cuomo ally, has been a prominent opponent of criminal justice reforms and has taken a punitive approach as Nassau County DA,…

Tenant groups are already turning to other upstate cities that could pass good cause this summer—and that could pave the way for statewide legislation.

The former federal prosecutor joined the Democratic Party in 2017, after registering with no party and casting ballots only in presidential-year contests.

Incarcerated people have one week left to claim their stimulus checks. But many say their prisons aren't providing the paperwork.

Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.

Many drivers will face financial ruin if the city cannot help them refinance their debts. Below are eleven of their stories.

The state economic development agency cited a law enforcement investigation when asked for records concerning politicians' use of a Buffalo Bills suite.

How a lack of stable housing, combined with bureaucratic hurdles in New York’s labyrinthine re-entry process, kept one man at Rikers during the height of…

New York Focus obtained and analyzed a proposal presented by Senate leadership to the chamber’s Democratic caucus.

Reginald Randolph is currently serving a two to four year sentence in state prison for stealing cold medicine.

Migrants from Mauritania and Senegal were the most likely to receive 30 or 60-day eviction notices, even though they weren't top shelter populations.

Meet the officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray homeless shelter residents — and end up back at work within a month.

New York’s profit-driven power system leads to higher costs, more blackouts, and more fossil fuels, activists say.

We added up the governor and the legislature's joint priorities and broke down their major divisions. The splits will define the year’s big legislative…

In a striking sign of activists' success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex…

New York suburbs have long lagged their peers in building new housing. A few towns are eyeing a different approach.

Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.

Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can't rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.

NYC-DSA built an electoral powerhouse with no paid staff and just a few years of experience. Here’s how they pulled it off.

State withholds have left harm reduction providers undersupplied, and informal overdose prevention networks are struggling to fill the gap.

Local regulations haven’t kept up with the rollout of new surveillance tech. Some privacy advocates see Washington as their best hope.

He committed three years ago to supporting safe injection sites for drug users — then reversed course, activists say. Now, they see a new chance to…

Kim accuses the Chinese-American Planning Council of rampant wage theft—and, in coordination with 1199SEIU, of blocking workers’ access to the courts.

Browse our database of county jail inspection records.

A new analysis finds that the governor’s proposal would “completely undermine” New York City’s climate law, setting the stage for a clash with the newly…

Incarcerated New Yorkers pay some of the steepest rates for phone calls in the country, as high as $9.95 for a single 15-minute call.

New Yorkers for Local Businesses has spent half a million dollars trying to kill a bill to help workers recover stolen wages. Almost all its backers…

The policy and its sudden reversal will be among Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci’s last acts.

Citing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas seeks to legally invalidate the syndrome named in Daniel Prude's autopsy report.

As the state has backpedaled on congestion pricing, it has made no progress on nearly half of its other transit-related climate goals.