New York, NY — The Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine today released the 2026 edition of the Employer Violations Dashboard – a tool that consolidates data from federal, state, and city enforcement agencies – to identify employers who violated key labor laws across the five boroughs. Launched on Labor Day in 2024 and updated annually, the Comptroller’s Employer Violations Dashboard tracks private employers’ violations of a range of workplace laws, including health and safety violations, wage theft, prevailing wage violations, illegal interference with...
New York, NY — As nearly one million New York City students prepare to return to school on September 10, just 48 New York City Public Schools (NYCPS), serving approximately 27,000 students, use the City’s “School Streets” program to turn adjacent streets into additional outdoor space for PE, recess, outdoor learning, arrival, dismissal, and other activities, according to a new analysis from the Office of Comptroller Mark Levine. The limited reach of the program comes as hundreds of schools face constraints on outdoor space: while the City does not maintain comprehensive data on outdoor...
A Message from the Comptroller Dear New Yorkers, As summer winds down, New York City remains somewhat shielded from the sluggish economy taking hold throughout the rest of the United States. While the stock market continues its surge, private sector employment in the U.S. grew by just 30K in July, falling short of forecasts, and gains in both May and June were revised down. As a result, the three-month average gain fell to 40K and the employment to population ratio...
New York, NY — A new review by the office of Comptroller Mark Levine found the Department of Veterans’ Services’ (DVS) VetConnectNYC, the primary online portal connecting New Yorkers who served with services, has been plagued by technological failures, procurement delays, and weak vendor oversight. The eight-year struggle to make government accessible for veterans online is a microcosm of the greater issue of outdated municipal systems, which are sometimes decades old, as the City seeks to modernize its functions and better serve New Yorkers. “New York City owes our veterans more than gratitude – we owe them a Government that...
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