New York, NY – Standing outside the newly shuttered B/C subway station at West 72nd Street and Central Park West this morning, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) was joined by disability and transit advocates and community members to...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, announced today that her bill (A. 8781) to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from strong-arming pharmacies and harming consumers...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) representative was joined by Upper West Side community leaders, straphangers and transportation advocates at Monday’s New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board...

Albany, NY – "The Coeyman officers’ actions were reprehensible and inexcusable. An individual sworn to protect the public should not torture animals. Playing chicken with a raccoon is never a justified use of police force. The police have defended...

New York, NY – On International Women’s Day, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), announces new legislation, the TAMP (Total Access to Menstrual Products) Act, which would require every restroom in New York State to provide tampons...

Under threat of lawsuit and with the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans on their hands, Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, announced that it has slashed its staff by 100 people and will no longer market the drug to physicians. The damage, however,...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill to help reunite people with their lost cat or dog was signed into law. The legislation will require animal shelters, rescue groups and any other organizations...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, today announced that her bill to extend the protections of New York State’s Clean Indoor Air Act to include e-cigarettes has become...

New York, NY- Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill to allow pets to board public transportation with their owners during natural disasters in order to evacuate to safety was signed into law. “Pets are...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal announced that she will be introducing legislation to ban any company doing business in New York from receiving city or state tax credits or other benefits if the company, its parent, any of its subsidiaries...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) commends the State Commission on Correction for publishing a rule today requiring menstrual hygiene products be provided free in local lockups, and looks forward to passing her legislation,...

New York, NY – In response to an alarming increase in rodent activity in parks across the Upper West Side, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) conferred with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as it expedites...

“My constituents and I are dismayed by the MTA’s plan to cut service on three bus lines that serve the Upper West Side: the M72, the M66 and the M10. With unreliable subway service, bus transportation is more critical than ever to my constituents...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal today announced that her bill to ban e-cigarettes on school grounds was signed into law by the Governor. "Schoolyards should be full of learning and the laughter of healthy children, not e-cigarette...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) and State Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF-Glenville) today announced that their bill, A.1839-B/S.4570-A, to help reunite people with their lost cat or dog heads to the Governor’s desk...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) and State Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF-Glenville) today announced that their bill, A.1839-B/S.4570-A, to help reunite people with their lost cat or dog heads to the Governor’s desk...

New York, NY – In response to New York State's overdose epidemic, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) introduced legislation authorizing safer consumption spaces as an emergency public health tool to combat overdose deaths. Safer consumption...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal today announced the Assembly's passage of the Child Victims Act, A.5885-A, which would help get dangerous pedophiles off the street and deliver long awaited justice to survivors of childhood sexual assault....