Personality

Personality

‘People are counting on us’: A Q&A with state Sen. Erik Bottcher

The West Side’s newest state senator wants to push back on Trump and focus on mental health and gun safety measures.

Personality

3 NY nurse lawmakers have joined the picket line as strike approaches one month

Assembly Members Phara Souffrant Forrest and Karines Reyes and City Council Member Mercedes Narcisse are current or former nurses. Reyes is on strike herself.

Zohran Mamdani

Who’s who in Zohran Mamdani’s administration?

Meet the folks who are running New York City.

Interviews & Profiles

Procurement reform is Lincoln Restler’s problem now.

A Q&A with the new City Council contracts committee chair on “one of the most intractable and problematic components of city government.”

Interviews & Profiles

Lucy Lang on protecting ‘the fabric of democracy’ as state inspector general

New Yorkers may not have heard of her office, but as it marks 40 years, she says they can feel the impact.

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DSA

Bernie Sanders spawned unnumbered socialists. NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo was one of them.

A class on “radical Latin American cinema,” climate change concerns and a populist presidential campaign were the recipe that formed the influential New York City leftist.

Interviews & Profiles

Here’s why you keep seeing Mamdani’s consumer protection commissioner everywhere

Sam Levine, who moved to the city in June, has had a particularly active start in the Mamdani administration.

Personality

What political posts lead to becoming New York’s governor?

It turns out being LG and waiting for a scandal isn’t a terrible option.

Interviews & Profiles

Everyone’s against Rana Abdelhamid. She’s running anyway.

A Q&A with the Assembly candidate running in a special election against the new “establishment.”

Personality

Heastie taps criminal justice reformer Alana Sivin as counsel

A socialist who challenged an incumbent legislator is now the right hand of the Assembly speaker.