Our Town — Council Member Harvey Epstein, who represents Manhattan’s Lower East Side and who recently represented it in the State Assembly before getting elected to the Council, was named the chair of the Council’s Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection by Menin.
City & State – Of the 11 new City Council members joining the body over the past year, six are former staffers for other elected officials, two are former elected officials themselves and one is the daughter of a former elected official.
PIX11 — A small crowd chanted, “People over profits, people over profits, people over profits.” More than 100 lawmakers across the state lashed out at Con Edison for proposed increases in gas and electric rates.