Opinion

Opinion

NY’s pot leaders need to consider environmental impacts now

Environmental justice should be the top priority when devising the state’s regulatory framework.

Personality

Personality

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society welcomes students back to school

Melisha Jackman, the nonprofit’s executive director, discusses the first week of school and how they weathered the pandemic.

Politics

Breaking News Politics

State health commissioner to step down

Howard Zucker will remain in his role until a replacement is named, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

Brooklyn Kindergarten Services welcomes students back to school

Melisha Jackman with students at the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society's Edwards I. Cleveland Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Photo by Myrtle Charles.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Taxi drivers call for debt relief at City Hall protest

A medallion owner said the city’s current plan isn’t enough to help drivers like him out of underwater loans.

Politics

Politics

So, about that Cuomo impeachment report

New York Assembly members are in the dark about exactly when the public will get to review their chamber’s investigation – or lack thereof.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

NYC public school mandates change after one week

But public health experts aren’t sure they’ll do enough to protect students and New Yorkers overall.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Karines Reyes on powering up the NY Hero Act

In a Q&A, the Assembly member talked about how much easier it’s been to work with Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

What can New York do to prepare for its next big hurricane?

Kate Boicourt from the Environmental Defense Fund talks about what the state needs to prepare for future disasters and how to make those efforts equitable.

Editor's Note

Opinion

Editor’s Note: A beloved Upper West Sider is frank about pandemic isolation

Brigitta “Brig” Ortner, a friend of local politicians and a Holocaust survivor, uses a dry sense of humor to keep up her morale.

Opinion

Opinion

NYCHA needs big money for major progress

Here’s why the federal government should double the amount allocated in the American Jobs Plan for public housing to $80 billion and help bring much-needed change to the housing authority in New York City.

Policy

Policy

Hundreds of bills await Hochul’s signature. Here are 10 that will help define her leadership early on.

Which bills the new governor approves – and which she vetoes – will tell us how serious she is about climate change, government transparency and more.

New York State

Power Lists

The Western New York Power 100

The movers and shakers in Buffalo, Rochester and the surrounding region.

New York State

Politics

State inspector general resigns

Letizia Tagliafierro has left the job without explanation amid criticisms over an ethics investigation

Nonprofits

NYN Media

Transportation advocates heated over spate of traffic deaths

Eric McClure, the executive director of StreetsPAC, spoke to NYN Media about the recent traffic death and Vision Zero’s shortcomings.