Five days before the Sept. 29 runoff in the Democratic primary for City Comptroller and Public Advocate, Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor sat in the group’s downtown Brooklyn headquarters looking like a cliché: yawning yet hyper, as staffers scurried in and out of an office with walls covered floor to ceiling with candidate posters from past campaigns. More...

District Council 37 Local 983 President Mark Rosenthal and other advocates are raising the alarm about the lack of enforcement staff in most city parks, with entire boroughs assigned only a handful of workers to oversee security in the city’s vast park system. More...

Mayor Bloomberg proposed a huge expansion of the city’s charter school network in a campaign announcement Sept. 30, promising to double the number of schools in the city by lobbying to lift the state cap currently in existence. More...

A 46-year-old Sanitation Worker died of an apparent heart attack on Oct. 2 while working in Queens. Sanitation Worker Richard Timmins, a five-year veteran of the department, collapsed on his route at Parsons Boulevard and 76th Ave. before he was taken to Queens General Hospital, where he died. More...