Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: It’s time to Axe the Tax for working-class NYC families

The state Legislature should support Mayor Eric Adams’ proposal to eliminate the personal income tax for low-income families in New York City.

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: Local news takes a huge blow across the Hudson River

The presses stopped rolling for good at the Star-Ledger, Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times on Sunday as the publications go online only. Meanwhile, The Jersey Journal shuts down completely.

Opinion

Opinion: New York City’s next mayor can’t go back on literacy

Whoever wins this year’s mayoral election must build on the Adams administration’s approach to literacy education and dyslexia screenings in public schools.

Opinion

Opinion: Beg your pardon?

In the bizarro political world of Trump 2.0, New York City had its most surreal 24 hours yesterday as rumors swirled around the fate of Mayor Eric Adams.

Opinion

Opinion: Putting New York City in charge

The power imbalance between the city and Albany could be upended by one potential mayoral candidate.

Housing

Opinion: Addressing New York’s affordability crisis requires statewide action

I’m pushing for state-level changes to ensure New Yorkers can afford to stay and live in New York.

Opinion

Opinion: NYC is undermining its own housing goals

The city needs to incentivize building more affordable housing, not more homeless shelters.

Editor's Note

Editor’s note: I’m fine being left off the 50 Over 50 list

City & State’s editor-in-chief, to quote “Wayne’s World,” was “not worthy” to be in the company of New York’s Age Disruptors.

Opinion

Opinion: Is the next Mike Bloomberg hiding in plain sight?

New NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has a Harvard business school degree, extreme wealth and a no-nonsense approach to governing. Could she be our next mayor?

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Editor's Note

Editor’s note: Will Donald Trump make Penn Station ‘beautiful’ again as promised?

Advocates say the new administration will be “taking a firmer” hand in the much-maligned transit hub’s redevelopment.

Opinion

Opinion: Biden removes Cuba from terrorist list, but devastating economic blockade remains

In 2023, the City Council called for an end to the brutal economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.

Opinion

Opinion: Inspector generals are at risk under another Trump administration

The president-elect has made it clear that the role of these independent watchdogs should be served by loyalists.

Opinion

Opinion: New York needs mental health clubhouses, not just involuntary commitment

Seizing on New York state’s opportunity to support people living with serious mental illness will make all New Yorkers safer.

Opinion

Opinion: NYC can speed the way to safe, inclusive policies for self-driving cars

We must prepare our policy, infrastructure and mindset for the day when autonomous vehicles arrive on city streets.

Opinion

Opinion: An indictment of the sad state of New York government

The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York makes the case for real government reforms.

Opinion

Opinion: A healthier and safer city requires real solutions

Living with mental illness is not a crime, and our mayor and governor have failed to address the very reasons why so many people find themselves in public states of despair.

Opinion

Opinion: The future of mental health in NYC

We need innovative, compassionate leadership that reimagines public safety and mental health services through the lenses of justice, equity and real community care.