What’s worse, feigning ignorance or being ignorant? That is the question raised by the latest attack by public advocate candidates Andrew Rasiej and Norman Siegel on the woman they each want to unseat ...

From her perch on the 15th floor of the Municipal Building, New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum oversees City Hall. Literally. A wall of windows allows her to look down upon the mayor and City ...

Well, okay, the city’s public advocate didn’t actually drive Al’s ailing wife anywhere. But if we accept the phrase as a handy euphemism for using government resources for private ends — e.g., “John ...

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum called Phoenix police on the day of her step-daughter-in-law’s death and asked them to use Carol Gotbaum’s maiden name to shield the family from unwanted publicity, ...

Here’s Betsy Gotbaum saying she "just cannot" support a legislative change to the city’s term limits law. But Gotbaum, the Here’s Betsy Gotbaum saying she "just cannot" support a legislative change to ...

Because the Mayor talks about “belt tightening” and “sacrifice” when he cuts the budget, and you never hear from the civil servants who get those cuts in the neck, you might get the impression that ...

As the school year begins, there’s extra assistance available for parents trying to improve their children’s education. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum has relaunched a hotline to answer parents’ ...

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum called for an investigation Monday into her step daughter-in-law’s mysterious death in a Phoenix airport holding cell on Friday and asked the Maricopa County medical ...

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum’s tour of the Morris Senior Center on East 181st Street in the Bronx on Thursday was not a flyby. Moving from table to table, switching from English to Spanish and back, ...

Current and former members of the police department are threatening to boycott a fraternal organization’s annual dinner dance in Queens because the honoree is the city’s public advocate, Betsy Gotbaum ...