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

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.

New York City

Politics

The Brooklyn boom

Where things stand for Brooklyn's biggest issues.

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.

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

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

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.