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
On the looming L train shutdown
With the L train shutdown less than a year away, the trickle of cautionary measures and hand-wringing from government officials and local politicians serves as a reminder of the fragility of the ecosystem connecting New York City’s mass transit and its local economy.
New York City
Politics
The arrest record of New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams
The arrest record of New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams
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?
New York City
Opinion
The Daily News’ destruction shows only right-wing newspapers will be left
The Daily News’ destruction shows only right-wing newspapers will be left. Corporations and billionaires have no use but propaganda for money-losing papers.
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.
Real Estate
Politics
Salazar takes aim at Dilan’s tenants rights record in state Senate primary
Julia Salazar, a socialist Democrat who is mounting a primary challenge against state Sen. Martin Dilan, says he is too cozy with real estate. Dilan's defenders says Salazar doesn't even know the Brooklyn district.
New York City
Politics
Candidate kicked off the ballot? It all happens in this room.
When candidates challenge each other’s petitions to get on the ballot, who does the vetting? City & State goes behind the scenes at the New York City Board of Elections office in Lower Manhattan to see how it all plays out.
New York City
Opinion