How Ed Koch Brought Me Back To New York

February 4, 2013

I might never have come back to New York, if not for Ed Koch.

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Speaking Truth In The Immigration Vacuum

May 29, 2012

Frustrated with a dysfunctional immigration system, Mayor Bloomberg speaks out. But is anyone listening?

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New York Gets To Keep Its Broken Housing Market

May 18, 2012

New Yorkers seem to like their decades-old housing “emergency,” and the courts are likely to let them keep it.

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New York Remakes Itself, 30 Feet Above The Pavement

June 8, 2011

There are two ways a great city can maintain itself. There is the Paris way, in which the monumental architecture of long ago is locked in place while modern development is shunted far from the core, and there is the New York way, in which the core is constantly torn down and rebuilt. Or, occasionally, simply repurposed. Today marks the opening of the second stage of New York’s High Line …

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s First Picture Show

April 4, 2011

Happy endings are more Hollywood than Albany. But last week, New York’s legislature enacted the state’s annual budget on time, closed a $10 billion hole without new taxes, dropped a so-called “millionaire’s tax” that invited entrepreneurs to leave the state, and even scrounged up a few extra bucks for the state’s schools. Okay, so it isn’t exactly a happy ending. It’s more like a good beginning. But for the first …

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New York’s Not-So-Indispensable Man

November 29, 2010

The late French Gen. Charles de Gaulle is credited with one of my favorite sayings: “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” New York City has functioned, sometimes better and sometimes worse, for around 400 years. In addition to a handful of Dutch directors, the city has had 108 mayors, many of whom are now in the ground. Yet the current mayor has become convinced that he is indispensable. Indispensable …

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Assault On Soda Leaves A Bad Taste

November 4, 2010

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided that everyone else should drink less soda. The city has launched a multi-pronged effort to get New Yorkers, especially low-income New Yorkers, to drink fewer sugar-sweetened beverages. The mayor, who is the tenth richest person in the country according to Forbes, initially suggested using economic pressure to change New Yorkers’ buying habits by imposing a statewide tax on sugar-saturated beverages. The proposal …

Talk To Chuck

February 10, 2010

Most of New York’s leading politicians, including Gov. David Paterson and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have come to Wall Street’s defense against President Obama’s attacks on “fat cats” and other populist demons. The notable exception is the state’s senior U.S. senator, Charles Schumer, whose seat on the Senate Banking Committee — and whose past political support of, and from, the financial industry — gave him a front-row seat …

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