New York City
Politics
Monserrate runs for office again
Hiram Monserrate, who was booted from the state Senate after physically assaulting his girlfriend and later served prison time for misusing city funds, is on the primary ballot this year to represent East Elmhurst as a Democratic district leader.
New York City
Policy
Why AMI are the three most controversial letters in New York housing policy
An explainer on New York City's area median income, and what it means for affordable housing.
New York City
Politics
Collins indicted, cap on Uber and Inwood rezoning
Rep. Chris Collins, Uber, Inwood rezoning and the Board of Elections headline This Week's Headlines.
New York City
Politics
Williams conviction won’t start a revolution
Immigrant rights experts say the movement has already begun.
New York City
Policy
Rikers inmates debate policies including pretrial detention
Rikers Island inmates debate program might help incarcerated people re-enter society.
Labor
Policy
NYC’s commercial waste industry is trash. How should we fix it?
New York City’s commercial waste industry is a broken system. How should we fix it?
New York City
Policy
Trash talk
Waste Equity passed. But the looming fight over commercial waste pickup zones is about to get nasty.
New York City
Opinion
Capping for-hire vehicles won’t solve NYC’s traffic woes
Better road management and transit service are more efficient answers than capping for-hire vehicles.
New York City
Politics
Williams: Hochul’s debt ad is out of touch and "absurd"
Williams: Hochul’s debt ad was an “absurd attack”
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.
Education
Opinion
New York’s assault on educational equity
Exempting yeshivas from educational requirements violates the First Amendment.
New York City
Politics
Drama with Charter, Cuomo still leads and a lemonade stand
Drama with Charter Spectrum, Andrew Cuomo still leads Cynthia Nixon, no deal for Uber and Lyft, a new policy on marijuana prosecution takes effect in New York City and a lemonade stand in This Weeks Headlines.
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.
Health Care (Archived)
Policy
Diagnosing Central Brooklyn’s health care needs
Central Brooklyn is a "hospital desert" according to Assemblywoman Latrice Walker.
Education
Politics
Will SHSAT debate help Liu or Avella?
Will the debate around the admittance process to New York City’s elite public high schools help John Liu or Tony Avella?
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.
Donald Trump
Politics
Manafort trial is an explainer in New York real estate money laundering
Paul Manafort's trial is an explainer for New York real estate money laundering.
New York City
Policy
Low-income New Yorkers are getting more economically hopeful
More low-income New Yorkers are hopeful that upward mobility is attainable, according to a report by the Community Service Society of New York, but it also finds that 2 out of 3 among them still feel they are in a precarious, if not worsening, economic situation.
Transportation
Policy