Opinion
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Opinion: Beg your pardon?
In the bizarro political world of Trump 2.0, New York City had its most surreal 24 hours yesterday as rumors swirled around the fate of Mayor Eric Adams.
Opinion
Opinion: Putting New York City in charge
The power imbalance between the city and Albany could be upended by one potential mayoral candidate.
Housing
Opinion: Addressing New York’s affordability crisis requires statewide action
I’m pushing for state-level changes to ensure New Yorkers can afford to stay and live in New York.
Opinion
Opinion: NYC is undermining its own housing goals
The city needs to incentivize building more affordable housing, not more homeless shelters.
Editor's Note
Editor’s note: I’m fine being left off the 50 Over 50 list
City & State’s editor-in-chief, to quote “Wayne’s World,” was “not worthy” to be in the company of New York’s Age Disruptors.
Opinion
Opinion: Is the next Mike Bloomberg hiding in plain sight?
New NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has a Harvard business school degree, extreme wealth and a no-nonsense approach to governing. Could she be our next mayor?
Editor's Note
Editor’s note: Will Donald Trump make Penn Station ‘beautiful’ again as promised?
Advocates say the new administration will be “taking a firmer” hand in the much-maligned transit hub’s redevelopment.
Opinion
Opinion: Biden removes Cuba from terrorist list, but devastating economic blockade remains
In 2023, the City Council called for an end to the brutal economic and travel sanctions against Cuba.
Opinion
Opinion: Inspector generals are at risk under another Trump administration
The president-elect has made it clear that the role of these independent watchdogs should be served by loyalists.
Opinion
Opinion: New York needs mental health clubhouses, not just involuntary commitment
Seizing on New York state’s opportunity to support people living with serious mental illness will make all New Yorkers safer.
Opinion
Opinion: NYC can speed the way to safe, inclusive policies for self-driving cars
We must prepare our policy, infrastructure and mindset for the day when autonomous vehicles arrive on city streets.
Opinion
Opinion: An indictment of the sad state of New York government
The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York makes the case for real government reforms.
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Opinion: A healthier and safer city requires real solutions
Living with mental illness is not a crime, and our mayor and governor have failed to address the very reasons why so many people find themselves in public states of despair.
Opinion
Opinion: The future of mental health in NYC
We need innovative, compassionate leadership that reimagines public safety and mental health services through the lenses of justice, equity and real community care.
Opinion
Opinion: Despite undeniable obstacles, Rikers Island can still be closed
Public officials have it within their power to take necessary steps toward permanently closing the atrocious jails on Rikers.
Opinion
Opinion: A Rikers receiver must have the power to close it
Closing Rikers will provide a natural endpoint for the receivership and an opportunity for the city to take back control of its jails.
Opinion
Opinion: The Rikers federal monitor’s failures and the flawed Nunez consent decree
In contrast to previous consent decrees that were more narrowly tailored and helped reform Rikers Island jails, the Nunez Consent Decree tries to address systemic issues without a clear roadmap.
Editor's Note
Editor’s note: The difference between anecdotes and data in congestion pricing and policing
Focusing on misleading information can lead policymakers to the wrong decision.
Transportation
Opinion: Affordable transit makes New York more affordable
Proposals to improve transit for families and low-income New Yorkers
Opinion
Opinion: Who’s winning the battle for the left?
Will Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani's clear messaging overshadow Comptroller Brad Lander, the darling of Brownstone Brooklyn, and feisty millennial state Sens. Jessica Ramos and Zellnor Myrie?
