Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Rick Cotton on LaGuardia, World Trade Center, Port Authority Bus Terminal projects

The executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has learned a thing or two about getting massive projects to the finish line.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

DeRosa: ‘Hochul’s a sideshow’

The Cuomo administration was so desperate to get then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul off the ticket that they tried to find positions for her at Planned Parenthood and in the federal government, according to the former governor’s top aide.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Chuck Schumer is taking the lead on AI regulation

In remarks at a Tech:NYC and IBM event, the U.S. Senate majority leader laid out the big pieces of his AI framework.

Technology

Personality

AI can be used to provide better services for New Yorkers

A Q&A Assembly Member Clyde Vanel, chair of the Subcommittee on Internet and New Technology

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

New York’s goal for ‘safe, secure, ethical and transparent” AI

A Q&A with Jennifer Lorenz, Executive Deputy CIO, State Office of Information and Technology Services

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Q&A: Ron Kim’s latest update on nursing home deaths investigation

The Aging Committee chair talked about cooperating with the feds and the next steps for the 2024 legislative session.

New York State

Personality

Q&A: Building YIMBY support for affordable housing in New York City

A discussion with Annemarie Gray, executive director of the nonprofit Open New York.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Mark Levine talks COVID vaccines, affordable housing and tearing down FDR Drive

The Manhattan borough president wants to help New Yorkers get vaccinated – and then undo the sins of Robert Moses.

Interviews & Profiles

Policy

Community organizing takes the lead: An interview with Theodore Moore

City & State catches up with the new executive director of the Alliance for a Greater New York, best known as ALIGN.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Sam Berger’s victory could hold lessons for Democrats in other purple districts

The Assembly candidate in Queens said: “Everything we had been looking at said that it was going to be a very tight race.”

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Luis Miranda Jr.: Elected officials need to improve outreach to Latino voters

The veteran political consultant reviewed the results of his own poll of Latino New Yorkers and urged for better communication from politicians.