Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: ‘The Master Plan of New York is the Subway’
Mamdani swept into City Hall on hopes and dreams of making the city affordable, and the key to affordability in New York City is housing. People are not moving out of New York City because the bus fare is three dollars. People are moving out because they can’t afford the rent. Child care is too […]
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Gateway Work to Restart With Millions Restored by Feds After Trump Cutoff
Construction on a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey is back on track. The Trump administration on Wednesday morning released the remainder of funding that it had withheld since last fall on the project to replace a vital East Coast rail link that daily carries more than 200,000 Amtrak and New Jersey […]
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Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?
New York imposes among the highest taxes in the country, and that’s especially true for city dwellers, who are hit by additional local taxes. And those taxes may climb further, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul continue to feud over whether to raise taxes and how. Mamdani’s preference is to raise income taxes […]
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rikers? We Asked 4 Experts for Their Ideas
Last month, a federal monitor overseeing the city’s Department of Correction said the agency remains mired in the same dysfunction that prompted a court’s intervention nearly a decade ago. “The reform effort continues to progress at a glacial pace,” said monitor Steve Martin, citing entrenched resistance and “pervasive poor practices.” A new team — Nicholas […]
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Gateway Work Still Paused as Hardhats and Pols Beg Trump Admin for Full Funds
On a typical Tuesday morning, hardhats would have been at work on the Manhattan gateway to the country’s largest infrastructure project — and not caught in the middle of a political fight between President Donald Trump and New York and New Jersey. “Pouring concrete, digging, excavating, a little of everything,” said Guido Rivieccio, 49, of […]
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