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A team of rivals should run New York City
The next mayor should follow Abraham Lincoln’s lead and bring competitors into their administration.
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Solving New York’s mental health crisis
The next administration needs a three-pronged approach: housing, health care and community.
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Opinion
The pandemic’s affordable housing opportunity
New York City should retrofit stores, offices and hotels to address the housing shortage.
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Opinion
If tax hikes are inevitable, ensure they are prudent
Increases in taxes on the rich should be temporary and paired with spending cuts.
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Opinion
A 5-point plan to create New York City’s new economy
The city and state must adapt to irrevocable changes COVID-19 has wrought.
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City & State joins DC media company Government Executive
A letter to readers from Publisher Tom Allon.
New York City
Opinion
A tale of two mayors
In retrospect, Dinkins looks better and Giuliani looks worse than when they left office.
Coronavirus
Opinion
NY should shut down before it's too late
Learn from past mistakes and close indoor dining before the outbreak is out of control.
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How to harness NYC’s creative destruction
New York City should come up with a plan for adaptive reuse and regeneration.
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Opinion
Bring back Bill Bratton to fight crime and police brutality
The turnaround artist could be a bridge to a NYPD commissioner of color.
New York City
Opinion
How to bring New York City back
New York isn’t dying, it just needs leadership and creative policymaking.
New York City
Opinion
New York City should teach older children outdoors
For the next school year, follow the science on who is most likely to spread COVID-19 and where.
Opinion
Opinion
New York needs a plasma pipeline
Recovered COVID-19 patients can donate blood that helps to fight the virus. Let’s pay them to do it.
New York City
Opinion
Henry Stern’s quest for the stars
Former New York City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, who passed away on Thursday, was a brilliant, creative and eccentric public servants writes City & State Publisher Tom Allon.
New York State
Opinion
Want to run for president? Quit your day job
City & State publisher Tom Allon makes the case for a new law applicable to anyone interested in a run for any political office: "You have to vacate your current position so a successor can be appointed or voted in who is willing to put in 50-70 hour weeks."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Opinion