Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Tax Hikes or Funding Cuts? Kathy Hochul Is in the Middle of a Trump-Created Dilemma.
This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. Several blue states are considering wealth taxes to close the budget holes worsened by President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget law. New York is not among them. As Democratic legislators and governors in Minnesota […]
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Q Train Expansion Into Harlem Gets a Green Light, Thanks in Part to Congestion Pricing
A decades-delayed commitment to extend the subway into East Harlem took a significant step forward Monday when the MTA board approved a $1.9 billion contract for the next phase of construction on the Second Avenue Subway. Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared alongside MTA officials at a meeting of the transit agency’s board to tout the “transformational” […]
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LISTEN: Eric Adams Is in the Single Digits
How did the mayor end up so far behind the 8 ball that he’s polling in the single digits in his run for re-elction? His press strategy, if that’s even the word for it, is one part of the problem. And recent headlines about how his cronies keep putting NYC up for sale surely aren’t helping […]
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Brother’s Keepers: How Two Top Adams Officials Helped Their Sibling Succeed
There stands David Banks, at the time chancellor of the New York City school system, all mic’d up and bantering with a tech firm’s CEO about the benefits of the program the company is promoting to school systems across America. “What do you think the parents are getting from this experience?” Banks asks Marlon Lindsay, […]
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Underground Comedy Club: Subway Acts Thrive Online
Costumed comic Marcus Monroe works the toughest of rooms: unleashing groanworthy-by-design punchlines on half-full subway cars in front of riders who rarely crack a smile. “A clown once held the door for me on the way to battle, that was a nice jester,” Monroe cracked last week while performing as a gladiator on a southbound […]
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