Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Marcela Mitaynes is taking the tenant tussle to Albany
The advocate for renters’ rights led the DSA’s head-spinning primary sweep.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Jessica Ramos isn’t sugarcoating anything
The no-nonsense state senator is an outspoken progressive, an adept political operator – and won’t put up with your bullshit.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
(Probably) the next Queens BP
Donovan Richards on the NYPD budget, the HQ2 site and real estate money.
Campaigns & Elections
Personality
Mondaire Jones: ‘I told you I was going to beat all of them!’
The presumptive member of Congress isn’t worried at all about absentee ballots.
Health Care (Archived)
Personality
ThriveNYC director reaches out to isolated New Yorkers
A Q&A with Susan Herman on the mental health impact of the coronavirus, her office’s transparency and telemedicine.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
WFP’s new leader for a new age
Sochie Nnaemeka brings an activist edge at the most perilous moment for the Working Families Party.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Regents chancellor decries proposed education cuts
With budgets in flux, Betty Rosa warns that a normal school opening in the fall might not happen.
New York City
Personality
Ex-parks chief slams beach, pool closures
Former NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe says the decision is shortsighted.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
How the coronavirus is affecting insurance in New York
Three insurance leaders in Albany talk about the challenges facing the industry.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Darma Diaz talks smack after opponents kicked off ballot
The City Council candidate talks smack after everyone else is kicked off the ballot.
MTA
Personality
Sarah Feinberg is focused on the subway’s survival
The New York City Transit chief has hope for the system’s future. The challenge is getting there.
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
