Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: Asylum-seeker children need a route to lawful immigration status
Legal, social service and advocacy organizations can start by educating the courts about Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: Make gender equality count in 2024
Money is the key ingredient in helping organizations fight violence and discrimination against women and others.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Latinos make up 22% of new hires within Adams administration, 2% more than de Blasio, but it’s not enough
City Hall’s latest workforce report filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows how a historical hiring bias has been slow to reverse.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Commentary: A New Year’s reflection on philanthropy
Our sector needs to continue supporting the now-needs of our communities and resourcing efforts to stop the erosion of our rights, protect our democracy and save our planet.
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Hochul, meet with the grieving families before you act
The governor has an opportunity to put patient safety above special interests.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Commentary: The secrets to longevity for nonprofits
The Anderson Center for Autism passes along the wisdom gained from a century of service.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: Our mental health system fails too many kids
There are devoted, compassionate people at every level of the system who are ready for change, and concrete things we can do together starting in 2024 to help our most vulnerable.
Opinion
Politics
Opinion: David Paterson feels Eric Adams’ pain
New York’s 55th governor writes that the New York City mayor is the target of a “well-organized defamation of character campaign” that he knows all too well.
Opinion
Opinion
Commentary: A look at the new New York City Department of Correction Commissioner’s attempts at transparency show slow to no progress
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, previously the first deputy commissioner of the department, made tall promises to the Board of Correction that she didn’t deliver on.
Opinion
Opinion
Commentary: New York is to blame for Donald Trump
Both the city and state, governed largely by Democrats, set the stage so that a rich, white man could be rewarded for shamelessness, dishonesty and criminality.
Opinion
Opinion
Editor’s note: NYC reporters cannot lose ‘the Shack’ at One Police Plaza
This grimy office is the only foothold the press has within the confines of the NYPD.
Opinion
Opinion
OPINION: How New York state can support migrants now
Pass the Access to Representation Act to establish the statewide right to a lawyer in immigration court
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Light at the end of the tunnel for New York’s redistricting
Here’s what to expect following the latest Court of Appeals decision on redistricting.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Commentary: When Gotham was heroin’s capital
A brief history of what opioids have done to New York City
Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: It’s time for New York to consider reparations
New York legislators have passed a bill to establish the state's first reparations commission. Gov. Kathy Hochul should sign it.
Andrew Cuomo
Opinion
Commentary: It’s too early to anoint Cuomo the next mayor
He’d struggle in ranked-choice voting. Campaign finance laws would prevent him from transferring his war chest into a mayoral campaign. And he doesn’t even live in New York City.
Nonprofits
NYN Media
Opinion: How corporate influence in local elections drowns out concerns over harmful impacts of landfills
Here’s why advocacy groups like Seneca Lake Guardian in upstate New York and Citizens for Responsible Development-LST in Pennsylvania are taking a stand.
Technology
Opinion
Opinion: New York City must lead boldly on AI
The technology could be a huge economic boon to New York, but it also poses serious potential threats to our city.
Editor's Note
Opinion
Editor’s note: David Banks delivered a sobering message about his response to the Hillcrest High School protest
The New York City schools chancellor recognized that “schooling” wasn’t enough to bring context to the Israel-Hamas war.
Opinion
Opinion