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The day after calling on MTA CEO Joseph Lhota to take action against a supervisor who allegedly licked a female employment, State Senator and 13th Congressional district candidate Adriano Espaillat stood with members of the transit workers union to call for stronger safeguards against harassment in the workplace.

City Councilwoman and Queens Congressional candidate Elizabeth Crowley weighed in on the anemic jobs report out this morning. The economy had its worst job showing in the past year, with only 69,000 jobs added in May and the unemployment rate nationally crept up a point to 8.2 percent.

Call it the New York City Mayors for Rangel: Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch both lent their support to Congressman Charles Rangel's reelection campaign on Wednesday, the campaign announced.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Governor Andrew Cuomo's sky-high approval rating has reached a new zenith: at 71 percent, Cuomo's now second only to former governor George Pataki's approval rating just after September 11, 2001.

It's a day of dueling endorsements: Just hours after Assemblywoman Grace Meng's campaign received the backing of Congressman Gary Ackerman, her assembly colleague Rory Lancman stood with former New York City public advocate Mark Green to receive his blessing as the candidate for Congress in the 6th district in Queens.

Congressman Gary Ackerman, whose retirement created the open seat in the 6th Congressional district in Queens, announced Tuesday he was supporting Assemblywoman Grace Meng's campaign for Congress.

Former Mayor Ed Koch is, in his typical outspoken style, upfront about his choice for mayor in 2013. He sized up the potential field — focusing on who he thinks can keep the city on track.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman wants to be the next in a line of Queens liberal lions that stretches from Senator Charles Schumer to, most recently, former congressman Anthony Weiner: high-profile Jewish sons of the district who are good at getting their issues—and themselves—plenty of attention.

The event was a public endorsement of Congressman Charles Rangel by his former primary opponent, Adam Clayton Powell IV. But standing below the statue of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard, next to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.’s son, Rangel introduced his endorser by way of heaping praise on the man he beat in 1970 to get into Congress: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Manhattan Assemblyman Keith Wright have been asked by Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve as the co-chairs of the state Democratic Party.

New York City Comptroller John Liu released a report Monday showing the city’s top 1 percent of earners account for a third of all income in New York City—nearly twice the national average.

On This Week in Politics, WNYC political reporters run down some of the top political stories from the week that was, providing insight and analysis on local, state and national political issues that touch New Yorkers.

She’s the worked-with-my-hands candidate in the race, who also happens to share one of the city’s most potent political family names.

A small business PAC based in DC, upset over Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez's work as the former chair and current ranking member of the small business committee in congress, has made going after the incumbent congresswoman its singular goal this election.

Voters support increasing the state’s minimum wage and are wary of the current campaign finance proposal, while the Cuomo popularity bubble loses a little air and the state legislature gets its best marks in years a new poll by Siena Research Institute finds.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has been an earlier leader in the polls for mayor. But a new Quinnipiac University survey finds Kelly behind the top three Democratic contenders in head-to-head match ups.

A machine malfunction that caused phantom votes led votes to go uncounted in the 2010 elections in the South Bronx, according to a new report.

Former and current state elected officials spent a good amount of time arguing over who should get credit for the nanotech facility visited by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. The person who was basking in the glow of recognition--Governor Andrew Cuomo--went largely unmentioned for his narrative grab on the issue, in another example of how politically untouchable the governor has become.

When Governor Andrew Cuomo takes the stage with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, both men will be looking for a boost, say political observers who see nothing but positives for New York's governor.

As we saw with campaign finance, the Republican-controlled state Senate may be the place where issues close to Democrats' hearts, like the DREAM fund, go to die.