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.”

Upstate

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

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.

Interviews & Profiles

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.

Interviews & Profiles

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

Interviews & Profiles

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.

Interviews & Profiles

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.

Interviews & Profiles

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.

Interviews & Profiles

NYN Media

Working to help NYC finally pay its nonprofit contractors

An interview with Michael Sedillo, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Deputy Mayor Jeffrey Roth on being gay in the military – and governing NYC under Trump

After serving during "don't ask, don't tell," New York City’s highest-ranking LGBTQ official is now trying to find common ground with the federal government. “I have great hope, but a lot of fear.”