New York City
Opinion
Homelessness is a housing problem
Rising rents are driving New York City’s latest homelessness crisis. Here’s how to fix it.
Housing
Politics
Inspectors reported contamination in water tanks. NYCHA had it erased.
Some of the worst water tanks in New York City are in the city’s public housing.
Transportation
Policy
Waiting for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector
Despite a 2017 deadline, there's still no release date for the feasibility study for Bill de Blasio's Brooklyn-Queens Connector.
New York City
Personality
Eric Adams, election cyclist
Eric Adams rehabbed his block and his body. Is the borough president fit to be New York City’s next mayor?
Andrew Cuomo
Politics
Seven years for Silver, Daily News staff slashed, speed cameras stall
In this week's headlines, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced, for a second time, to seven years in prison, Tronc slashed the editorial workforce at the Daily News, and New York City's speed camera program was suspended due to inaction in Albany.
Bill de Blasio
Policy
Why returning NYC’s freight transportation to the waterways won’t work
New York City has initiated a $100 million plan to try to solve the city’s age-old problems with freight transportation. But the city’s attempt to go back to the future by returning shipping to the waterways won’t solve many of the worst freight-traffic problems.
New York City
Policy
What you need to know about the NYC charter revision commissions
Few New York City residents know that the city’s charter is being revisited not once, but twice. To get up to speed, here are the basic details about the process – and what key officials are saying about how it’s playing out.
NYPD
Policy
Records standoff between NYPD and Vance continues
The New York Police Department hasn’t met Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s demands for access to internal police disciplinary records and investigative reports, but Police Commissioner James O’Neill is confident the two sides will reach an agreement.
Andrew Cuomo
Politics
More trouble for NYCHA, verdict in Buffalo Billion and protecting Roe
This week's headlines: More trouble for NYCHA, a guilty verdict in Buffalo Billion and protecting Roe v. Wade.
New York City
Opinion
New York City is alive and well
The July cover of Harper’s mistakes the southern half of Manhattan for all of New York City.
Bill de Blasio
Politics
REBNY, business groups call on de Blasio to ditch commercial waste zones
Major business interests in New York City have written a letter urging New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Department of Sanitation to withdraw its plans for a zoned commercial waste pickup system.
New York City
Politics
NYCHA’s miscalculation, Nixon’s attack and ire over immigration
NYCHA’s miscalculation, Cynthia Nixon’s attack and ire over immigration in this week's headlines.
New York City
Opinion
A pied-à-terre tax is smart policy – and it’s constitutional
City Hall is wrong: New York can tax wealthy absentee owners.
Transportation
Policy
Better ways to get to LaGuardia Airport
Who needs Andrew Cuomo’s AirTrain with alternatives like these?
New York City
Politics
NYCHA’s latest scandal: widespread juvenile lead poisoning
NYCHA now admits to having far more children with elevated lead poisoning blood levels.
New York City
Policy
NYC exploring how to better serve veteran business owners
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs is exploring how to better serve veteran business owners.
Bill de Blasio
Opinion
De Blasio’s reduction in pot arrests doesn’t go far enough
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent announcement addresses the severity but not the disparity of marijuana enforcement.
Donald Trump
Politics
No one knows how many immigrant children taken from parents are in New York
Donald Trump’s executive order doesn’t send the children already taken back to their families.
Andrew Cuomo
Politics
Separated children, end of session and changes to marijuana policy
Separated migrant children, end of New York legislative session and changes to marijuana policy top this week's news.
Donald Trump
Personality