2026 congressional midterm elections

Politics

Mysterious pro-Reynoso super PAC is funded by teachers union, not AIPAC

Real Fight NYC has the American Federation of Teachers as one of its donors – and Randi Weingarten does “not play with AIPAC.”

2026 congressional midterm elections

Politics

Super PACs have spent millions boosting Adriano Espaillat and Darializa Avila Chevalier. Both candidates think that’s super hypocritical!

Espaillat has benefited from more than $4 million in outside spending. Some $1 million has been spent on Avila Chevalier. Both traded barbs about that during a forthcoming BronxNet debate.

New York City

Personality

‘Now, everyone talks about housing’

A Q&A with New York Building Congress President and CEO Carlo Scissura on the city’s construction boom.

New York City

20th Anniversary

In many sectors, big builds have transformed New York over the past 20 years

New neighborhoods, airports and arenas have been created while the state’s energy landscape has been overhauled.

New York City

Politics

Meet the voters of New York’s 12th Congressional District

Famous, affluent, opinionated, conscious of what Gale Brewer thinks and committed to Nina Schwalbe against the odds gosh darn it!

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Like AOC, but to the left

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a pro-Palestinian activist and self-described “millennial with an internet connection” is actually giving Rep. Adriano Espaillat a run for his money.

News & Politics

Politics

NYC-DSA chides Mamdani for increasing NYPD headcount

The mayor’s political home says his actions have “run counter to the values of the socialist and working-class movement that elected him.”

New York City Council

Policy

Here’s what the City Council is pushing for in the NYC budget

Mamdani finds himself on the receiving end of lawmaker demands to expand spending on parks, consumer protection, rental vouchers and more.

New York City

Politics

NY lobbyists raked in a record $384.8 million last year

Among the top 10 highest client spenders in 2025, the gambling and short-term rental honchos spent big to sway state and local government.

Policy

Policy

The City Council’s trying again to ban horse carriages

Animal welfare advocates rallied to support the latest legislation after over a decade of failed attempts to end the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.

Read First

Policy

Talk of open primaries dominates first COGE hearing

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first Charter Revision Commission meeting was haunted by Eric Adams’ last commission