Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Robert Tucker clocks in one year as FDNY’s ‘CEO’
An interview with the department’s 35th commissioner, who says “the future of FDNY is EMS.”
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Personality
Melissa Aviles-Ramos to deliver keynote at City & State’s Education in NY event
An interview with the New York City Public Schools chancellor
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Personality
Exit interview: Billy Jones reflects on political polarization
“It's not the same political environment that I started out with,” the North Country Democrat said.
Personality
Personality
Sharon Owens says the Syracuse Democratic Party is facing a reckoning
An interview with the Syracuse Democratic mayoral nominee
Personality
Personality
The NYPD officers who support Zohran Mamdani for mayor
An interview with retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Shamsul Haque, co-founder of the Bangladeshi American Police Association.
Personality
Personality
Bruce Blakeman, once a rising star, has been reborn in the MAGA mold
He spent over a decade in the political wilderness until his shrewd embrace of Donald Trump led to a second act on the national stage.
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Personality
At City Hall, Randy Mastro is in charge
Roughly 100 days in, the first deputy mayor has torpedoed projects, tried to put ICE back on Rikers Island and strong-armed City Council members into an actually somewhat functional relationship.
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Personality
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez on where she gets her ‘juice’ supporting older New Yorkers
An interview with the Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Aging ahead of City & State’s New York Aging Summit
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Personality
Sarahana Shrestha is building a progressive movement in the Hudson Valley
The growth of left-wing politics isn’t limited to New York City.
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SCAN-Harbor’s ED on almost four decades of leadership and serving in the nonprofit sector
An interview with Lewis Zuchman.
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Personality
Andy Byford on Penn Station’s ‘transformation’
The first interview with New York City’s “Train Daddy” since he took on the job of redeveloping the much-maligned transit hub.
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Personality
After a major win, Albany Forward looks to the future
An interview with Evan Rantzaklis, a senior advisor at Brown & Weinraub who led an independent expenditure that helped Dorcey Applyrs win the Democratic mayoral primary in Albany.
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NYN Media
Leading University Settlement through the moment
An interview with the nonprofit’s CEO Melissa Aase
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Personality
Jim Walden talks his longshot bid for mayor
The attorney is running as an independent hoping to defeat Democrat Zohran Mamdani. He’s not the only one.
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Personality
India Walton says Hochul ‘has a responsibility’ to endorse Mamdani
An interview with the former Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor
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Working to help NYC finally pay its nonprofit contractors
An interview with Michael Sedillo, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services
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Personality
Here’s how Zohran Mamdani’s 50K-strong volunteer army pulled it off
An interview with Tascha Van Auken, field director for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.
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Ruwa Romman says Mamdani’s victory could ‘change the calculus’ around Democratic support for Israel
An interview with the first Palestinian American state lawmaker in Georgia
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Personality
Cynthia Nixon hopes that Andrew Cuomo’s career is finally over
An election night interview with the actor and former gubernatorial candidate
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Personality