Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Rikers is richly staffed. Without a plan to rightsize, it will cost us dearly.

New York City currently employs more correction officers per incarcerated person than any other city.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Did you ever think child support services could serve as an anti-poverty tool?

Meet “Mr D,” who said a child support-led work training program was a “life saver.”

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Is the end finally near for New York’s congressional redistricting?

The 2014 state constitutional amendment that created this poorly developed process and its incomplete language should compel legislators and the public to look for a better method after 2030.

Editor's Note

Opinion

Editor’s note: Congestion pricing is a necessary evil that waits for no one

It’s not a great time to roll out the tolling program, even if it’s the right thing to do.

Opinion

Opinion

Editor’s note: The City Council should remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan when deciding on MSG

The late U.S. senator might not be so inclined to issue a 10-year renewal for the arena if it would keep the transit hub’s redevelopment plan from bolder alternatives.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Judicial independence or intimidation?

The same judicial organizations who condemned academics for publishing a paper about judges setting excessive bail were silent when a judge was reassigned for declining to set bail.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Public schools need student journalists, too

Instead of subsidizing expensive journalism degrees, the mayor should invest in student journalism in public schools.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: A greater society begins by properly caring for the overlooked

Greater funding is needed to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the providers who help care for them.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Closing Rikers is the joke of the decade

There’s no way Rikers will be replaced by four borough-based jails by 2027. So let’s reform Rikers instead.

Editor's Note

Opinion

Editor’s note: Train Daddy is right to want a bolder Penn Station redevelopment plan

Former New York City Transit Authority President Andy Byford joined advocates in calling for more ambitious alternatives to reconstructing the transit hub.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Legislators must rescue the rent-stabilized market before it’s too late

In New York City’s unique housing market, incomes aren’t keeping up with the rents needed to operate and maintain buildings in the five boroughs.

Editor's Note

Opinion

Editor's Note: How many more will die at Rikers?

The city keeps sending people to the infamous jail complex, and people keep dying.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: Here’s how we can end the chaos at our curbs

Albany must give New York City home rule to pursue automated enforcement

Editor's Note

Opinion

Editor’s Note: Eric Adams wastes time criticizing the press for negative news

Crime is down, but unlawfulness and random violence that spiked during the coronavirus pandemic still dominates headlines.

Energy & Environment

Opinion

Opinion: Employ vulnerable communities to build New York’s clean energy transition

In order to right deep-rooted environmental inequities, the state’s clean energy transition should provide communities of color with access to quality job opportunities in the new green economy.

NYPD

Opinion

Opinion: The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices are still here but under a new name

A new report sheds light on the New York City Police Department’s overpolicing of Black and Latino communities, and passing the How Many Stops Act could bring transparency into the NYPD’s daily activities and help prevent future loss of life.

Opinion

Opinion

Opinion: For a healthier city, New York must pass the Community Land Act

Here’s how this transformational legislation can deliver environmental, health and housing equity.

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