Mayor Adams’ NYC is a blunderful life – and getting worse
To judge from the happy talk coming from City Hall and Albany, these are Gotham’s golden days. The pols point to sky-high budgets — investments, they call them — as…
Unions want full control of schools and our kids — we can’t let Albany allow it
Twenty-one years after former Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrested control of the largest school district in the country from the grip of the teachers unions, Mayor Adams, despite his best efforts,…
White House fury at Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for backing MAGA
Jamie Dimon, CEO of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has been iced out of the White House’s good graces after apparently endorsing Republican policies and calling Donald Trump “kind…
Eric Adams is following in the footsteps of past one-term NYC mayors
In the last 50 years, New York has had just two mayors booted from office after a single term. Abe Beame and David Dinkins were loyal Democrats who spent years…
Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul will have their legacies quickly sink if they don’t clean up the rising decay of NYC
In 1975, with New York City on the financial brink, President Gerald Ford responded to a desperate plea for help by telling the city in so many words to “Drop…
The heart of New York’s woes is rotten government
New York wouldn’t be New York if the new logo for the campaign to boost the city didn’t raise hackles. The naysayers were quick to argue there’s nothing wrong with…
NYC’s new arts center is a shining symbol of post-9/11 comeback
If you lived in New York City on 9/11 like I did, you’ll never forget the feeling of those first painful weeks and months after the attacks. The sense of…
Measuring climate investment risk is capitalism
Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire businessman and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the investing behemoth BlackRock have…
Young males’s reckless using is fueling NYC site visitors deaths
Just prior to 2 am on February 28, 2022, after an evening partying in higher Manhattan, Edgar Valette, 39, were given into his BMW to pressure two buddies—Kimberly Martinez, 28,…