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.
Politics
Primary challenger thinks Joe Crowley is vulnerable on the left
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making some unsupported claims in her own campaign
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
Opinion
Proposed teacher evaluation reform won’t mean more student testing
The bill currently in Albany would de-emphasize standardized tests
New York State
Policy
Republicans weaponize mom & pop
New York Senate GOP’s economic agenda takes aim at leftward-shifting Democrats
Nonprofits
NYN Media
The latest on NYC contracts ... Ford Foundation ... NCRP
Updates from nonprofits across New York
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.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Controversial New York nonprofit faces renewed scrutiny
New York City decided last week to seek an audit of Children's Community Services.
New York City
Opinion