Let everyone vote in NYC local elections
New York City is a one-party town. Apart from the Giuliani and Bloomberg years, the Democratic primary victor…
Editor’s note: Goodbye to Al Sharpton’s House of Justice
The wrecking ball is coming for the Rev. Al Sharpton’s House of Justice. And since the reverend is…
Editor’s note: Goodbye to Al Sharpton’s House of Justice
The wrecking ball is coming for the Rev. Al Sharpton’s House of Justice. And since the reverend is…
Opinion: New York City is drowning in packaging. A bill in Albany can help.
Every single day, the men and women of the Department of Sanitation pick up 24 million pounds of…
Opinion: New York is leaving its most vulnerable youth in limbo
As we look back on Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re thinking about a group of young people whose…
Opinion: New York is leaving its most vulnerable youth in limbo
As we look back on Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re thinking about a group of young people whose…
Hey, Zohran: Your ‘new’ magic housing plan has been failing for decades
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “Block by Block” plan to build 200,000 subsidized apartments entails a lot of handwaving, magical…
New York may be facing a crime trend even worse than deadly gang violence
While New York’s leaders have been cheering the city’s steady decline in murder, another indicator has been giving…
At $55M, Mamdani’s city-owned grocery store is a GROWING boondoggle
It turns out Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s East Harlem grocery store project is an even bigger boondoggle than we…
New York unions squeeze the public worse than any other mafia — with politicians’ help
Mafia-like unions are pummeling New York — and the political elites are in league with them. The obscene…
Claire Valdez: Why I’m running for Congress this year
As the legendary labor organizer Joe Hill once sang, “There is power in a union.” I learned that…
Not a stranger, a New Yorker: A look back at Downtown life a half-century ago
On Thursday evening, restaurateur and author Keith McNally received the 2026 Gotham Book Prize at the Museum of…