City Comptroller News

Campaign 2025

Watch the Final Primary Debate for NYC Comptroller Here on June 10

June 1, 2025, 9:39 a.m.June 5, 2025, 1:23 p.m.

THE CITY s NY1 and WNYC as hosts of the Democratic debate for candidates vying to be the city’s financial overseer.

Campaign 2025

‘We Must Fight Trump,’ Comptroller Candidates Agree. Then What?

April 1, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 1, 2025, 11:59 a.m.

Mark Levine and Justin Brannan bring competing perspectives on the city budget, pension investments and audits in an under-the-radar race.

Construction workers help dig a trench at a Brooklyn site.

Labor

Comptroller Wins Owed Wages for Underpaid Construction and Building Workers

March 13, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 12, 2025, 8:25 p.m.

Three city subcontractors and a landlord benefiting from a tax break failed to comply with prevailing wage requirements, city Comptroller Brad Lander found. One is now barred from city business.

City Council

Who Can Force Out the Mayor? A Guide to NYC’s Inability Committee and Hochul’s Power

Feb. 18, 2025, 3:03 p.m.Feb. 19, 2025, 11:54 a.m.

If Mayor Eric Adams is removed from office, he would be the first in New York City history.

Comptroller Brad Lander speaks outside the Row Hotel family shelter in Midtown while migrants began to receive eviction notices.

City Comptroller

Trump istration Claws Back $80 Million Sent to NYC to House Migrants

Feb. 12, 2025, 3:35 p.m.Feb. 12, 2025, 5:29 p.m.

Officials in the city comptroller’s office spotted the unprecedented grab at congressionally approved funds that were already in the city’s bank s.

Department of Correction general counsel James Conroy speaks at a City Hall hearing about commissary prices.

Impact

Rikers’ Controversial Commissary Deal Will Be Opened to All Bidders Following Reports of High Prices, Poor Service

Jan. 30, 2025, 4:44 p.m.March 17, 2025, 2:48 p.m.

The move comes after THE CITY revealed that the company hand-picked to run food services overcharged detainees.

An early-voting site was open at the Queens Borough Community College for the Congressional District 3 special election.

Campaign 2025

What to Know About the 2025 Elections in New York City

Jan. 21, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 20, 2025, 10:27 a.m.

The embattled mayor’s reelection fight is far from the only contest on the ballot.

NYCHA workers made the rounds at the Jackie Robinson Houses in East Harlem.

Public Housing

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:03 p.m.Nov. 20, 2024, 6:04 p.m.

Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found dozens of cases where NYCHA could not document that work the agency had paid for was actually done.

Comptroller candidates Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Councilmember Justin Brannan are seen speak in a diptych image.

Campaign 2025

Who’s Running for City Comptroller — and What Is a Comptroller?

Aug. 19, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 13, 2025, 11:26 a.m.

Your guide to New York’s money watchdog, and who’s vying for the gig in 2025.

City Comptroller

Watch the Final Primary Debate for NYC Comptroller Here on June 10

‘We Must Fight Trump,’ Comptroller Candidates Agree. Then What?

Comptroller Wins Owed Wages for Underpaid Construction and Building Workers

Who Can Force Out the Mayor? A Guide to NYC’s Inability Committee and Hochul’s Power

Trump istration Claws Back $80 Million Sent to NYC to House Migrants

Rikers’ Controversial Commissary Deal Will Be Opened to All Bidders Following Reports of High Prices, Poor Service

What to Know About the 2025 Elections in New York City

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

Who’s Running for City Comptroller — and What Is a Comptroller?

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