“If we were to replace 15 out of 40, you know, that’s not an unreasonable amount of turnover after eight years.” “The reason that people always say you can’t have a good third term is they try to do the same thing with the same people, and it’s very difficult to walk in, look a commissioner in the eye and say, ‘You know you have done great things, you’ve worked hard, you’ve done everything we’ve asked you, but it’s time to go.’ But that is what you have to do.”

At the beginning of December, City Hall published “All In The Family,” a five-part investigative series on www.cityhallnews. com about the Working Families Party. The Party was shown to actually have at least four different arms, enabling it to employ a web of for-profits and non-profits that take in and spend money beyond the rules generally governing political activity. A pay-for-influence arrangement in endorsements was revealed, along with the details of the Party’s lobbying operation, as was its method of paying workers outside of the labor laws the Party itself has championed.

There is a power vacuum in Albany. Who better to fill it than Michael Bloomberg? Not to suggest that Bloomberg run for governor next year—that trial balloon has thankfully drifted far, far away since its first implausible appearance in the aftermath of his failed presidential bid last year.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s election night party at the Sheraton was one that befit a billionaire. There were long lines to get in, guests were wanded, food and drink were brought around on trays.

The preliminary numbers in from the Board of Elections on Tuesday's races for mayor on down through City Council.

Now that the polls have been closed for about 12 hours—let the 2013 races begin! With a mere 1,462 days until voters trudge back to the polls, the countdown has begun, at least for the political junkies of this city.

An election primer for the races for mayor, Staten Island BP and the city's most competitive Council districts.

Anyone who has ever made the trip to One Police Plaza to get press credentials knows the absurdity of the process well: leave multiple messages to make an appointment, wait for weeks or months for that appointment to come, force a smile for the...

When the Grand Central Partnership was established to help manage the area around the storied rail station, the sidewalks were home to many homeless, graffiti stained Art Deco buildings in the area and litter covered the streets.

Comptroller candidate Salim Ejaz may have lost the support of the Rent Is Too [Damn] High Party, which originally put him on the ballot, but at a debate with Democratic nominee John Liu on Oct. 16, he managed a feat many of Liu's Democratic rivals tried, but failed, to achieve: He put Liu on the defensive.