Heard Around Town

Policy

Good government watchdogs want COIB to restrict electioneering

After two recent rounds of ballot proposals, the advocates are yelling at the refs.

News & Politics

Politics

Get to know DSA’s internal caucuses

From Socialist Majority Caucus to Marxist Unity Group, these are the groups within the group that are driving its policies and priorities.

DSA

Politics

DSA for Dummies

Your guide to the organization that – for better or for worse – is trying to take over New York City politics.

DSA

Politics

DSA members in their own words

“There’s what you see on the outside, and there’s what happens on the inside.”

DSA

Personality

Bernie Sanders spawned unnumbered socialists. NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo was one of them.

A class on “radical Latin American cinema,” climate change concerns and a populist presidential campaign were the recipe that formed the influential New York City leftist.

Campaigns & Elections

Politics

The Frozen Four: a guide to the special elections

February’s legislative races could be an icy preview of some spicy June primaries.

Zohran Mamdani

Politics

Mamdani vs. the vortex

The new mayor faces a January crucible. Will he fare better than Bill de Blasio? Worse than Eric Adams?

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Here’s why you keep seeing Mamdani’s consumer protection commissioner everywhere

Sam Levine, who moved to the city in June, has had a particularly active start in the Mamdani administration.

Heard Around Town

Politics

Opening youth clinics, navigating primary politics

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso celebrated a new health care facility together-ish at Woodhull Hospital on Thursday.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Everyone’s against Rana Abdelhamid. She’s running anyway.

A Q&A with the Assembly candidate running in a special election against the new “establishment.”

New York City

Policy

Who’s going to pay for AC in New York City?

Air conditioning could soon be required, but questions remain about how it’ll be implemented.

Energy & Environment

Policy

Gowanus faces a hidden threat beneath its neighborhood boom

With 141 residential buildings on the way and an increased risk of flooding, residents worry about contaminants underground.