Interviews & Profiles
Personality
How does state Sen. Jessica Ramos want to help essential workers?
The Queens lawmaker has proposed a worker bailout fund that would be funded by taxing billionaires.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
The latest on COVID-19 in Queens
Rep. Grace Meng says her constituents continue to face many challenges, even as the hospitalization rate declines.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
How New York’s building trades are adapting to COVID-19
Organized labor secured a prevailing wage expansion, but with a 2022 start date.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Correction officers at ‘the epicenter of the epicenter’ of COVID-19 outbreak
A Q&A about New York City jails with Elias Husamudeen, president of the correction officers’ union.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
‘We intend to continue to do our work’
A Q&A with state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Labor
Personality
The importance of low-wage workers during a pandemic
RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum talks about the challenges his members face as they perform essential work.
Transportation
Personality
NYC transit union boss: “We are heroes”
TWU Local 100’s Tony Utano said the coronavirus pandemic makes it clear that mass transit workers should be celebrated.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Yellow taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers struggle through pandemic
The coronavirus outbreak is kicking an industry that was already down.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
A Q&A with New York City’s go-to crisis manager
Kathryn Garcia talks about tackling food insecurity during the coronavirus, and her many other jobs.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Serving constituents during the coronavirus outbreak
There is lots to do, from making phone calls to protecting consumers to passing legislation.
New York City
Personality
Rodneyse Bichotte: Definitely not the old boss
The machines are waning. Brooklyn Democrats are divided. But if anyone can unite them, it’s her.
New York City
Personality
Can Donovan Richards find himself?
Queens is both a machine stronghold and the most progressive place on the planet. The borough president hopeful thinks he can have it all.
Interviews & Profiles
Policy
What does coronavirus mean for school funding in New York?
State Budget Director Robert Mujica explains big plans to change state education spending.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Vanessa Gibson wants the be the Bronx’s first black BP
And the city councilwoman has been practicing her Spanish for 2021.
New York State
Personality
A blunt conversation with Cuomo’s pot czar
Norman Birenbaum has been heading up the governor’s efforts to legalize marijuana.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Democrats’ generational divide on gestational surrogacy
Melissa DeRosa says some older lawmakers just don’t get the young people.
Technology
Policy
Talking 5G with AT&T’s Amy Kramer
First Read Tech interviews AT&T New York President Amy Kramer
Kathy Hochul
Personality
