Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Andy Byford on Penn Station’s ‘transformation’

The first interview with New York City’s “Train Daddy” since he took on the job of redeveloping the much-maligned transit hub.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

After a major win, Albany Forward looks to the future

An interview with Evan Rantzaklis, a senior advisor at Brown & Weinraub who led an independent expenditure that helped Dorcey Applyrs win the Democratic mayoral primary in Albany.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Jim Walden talks his longshot bid for mayor

The attorney is running as an independent hoping to defeat Democrat Zohran Mamdani. He’s not the only one.

Interviews & Profiles

NYN Media

Working to help NYC finally pay its nonprofit contractors

An interview with Michael Sedillo, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Deputy Mayor Jeffrey Roth on being gay in the military – and governing NYC under Trump

After serving during "don't ask, don't tell," New York City’s highest-ranking LGBTQ official is now trying to find common ground with the federal government. “I have great hope, but a lot of fear.”

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Mark Levine: ‘The comptroller has to be totally independent of the mayor’

An interview with the winner of the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller – who could end up serving as a check on a Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Rick Cotton on ‘the airport business, the bridges and tunnels, roads, commuter railroad business’

An interview with the executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey ahead of City & State’s 2025 Rebuilding New York Summit.