MTA

Opinion

The MTA’s flashy new plan won’t solve the delays

Upgraded signals could provide significant service improvement, but to fully deliver speed and reliability would require changes to operating practices as well.

Andrew Cuomo

Personality

Paladino: Molinaro backs Trump, and the rest of the GOP should too

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino says the Marc Molinaro, the GOP's nominee against Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year, is supportive of President Donald Trump - and the rest of the party should be, too.

Nonprofits

NYN Media

This is how ‘Sue’ will beat her landlord in New York City housing court

Tenants have some options when fighting landlords in Housing Court – as a woman named ‘Sue’ shows.

New York State

Policy

Republicans weaponize mom & pop

New York Senate GOP’s economic agenda takes aim at leftward-shifting Democrats

New York City

Policy

Flanagan is the only one standing in the way of teacher evaluation bill

Despite support, Flanagan could block bill decoupling student test scores from teacher evaluations.

New York City

Policy

Lax oversight, dubious testing in water tanks pose health risks

Cockroaches, dead pigeons and animal feces could all be in your drinking water – and NYC wouldn’t even know

New York City

Politics

Party conventions, marijuana reform and a new attorney general

Party conventions, marijuana reform and a new attorney general round out the week’s top political news.

Personality

Who's up and who's down this week?

This week’s state Republican and Democratic conventions showed the difference in substance and style, and both were represented in our Winners & Losers list.

Politics

Did New York's GOP statewide candidates vote for Trump?

The New York Republican Party settled on its four statewide candidates: Marc Molinaro, Julie Killian, Jonathan Trichter and Keith Wofford. But that show of party unity could only go so far as New York Republicans grapple with how to win races in a state where two thirds of voters disapprove of the president.

Andrew Cuomo

Politics

Cuomo embraces establishment with Biden, Perez endorsements

National figures Joseph Biden and Thomas Perez came to the New York state Democratic convention to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York City

Politics

The biggest snubs of progressives at the state Democratic convention

Progressive Democratic activists feel that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his allies in the state party shunned their movement at the New York Democratic Party’s convention on Long Island.

Politics

The GOP had the classier convention

The state Republican convention convened under chandeliers at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan and dined on an abundance of steak sandwiches. Meanwhile, the Democrats held their party convention under the bright lights and frigid air conditioning of Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex – and soon ran out of food at lunch.

New York City

Opinion

Focusing on the seat, not a sitter

New York City should allow candidates to use campaign funds for child care