This is Elizabeth Plum, also known as Betsy Plum. She's the executive director of Riders Alliance, the transit concern organization th...

From the NY Post : Despite the nation’s longest economic expansion, the Empire State is actually losing population, an analysis of US Cens...

Eyewitness News New York City officials are getting at the root of the problem when it comes to cracked sidewalks. Mayor Bill de B...

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about every...

From NBC : A state panel is advising Governor Andrew Cuomo to consider a bundle of new taxes after revelations that the price for fixing ...

From Curbed : Mayor Bill de Blasio has been largely noncommittal on speaking about how the city can combat some of the blight that’s sweep...

From CBS 2 : New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing whatever is necessary to protect New Yorkers from increased federal taxes. As CB...

From Crain's : Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for an array of new revenues to close the state’s $4 billion budget hole on Tuesday while sket...

From the Daily News : Imagine New York without its 24/7 subway system? The experts at the Regional Plan Association did, and they believ...

From the NY Times : Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to push for a tax on wealthy New Yorkers to pay for improvements needed to address the cris...

From the Daily News : Mayor de Blasio has decided to “let” taxpayers foot most of the $2.3 million bill he owes the lawyers who defended h...

From the Wall Street Journal : Diverted passengers who face a grueling commute this summer because of rail disruption at New York’s Penn S...

From the Queens Chronicle : Some Queens realtors are not supportive of Mayor de Blasio’s proposed mansion tax, a policy City Hall is once ...

From the Queens Chronicle : One of the hottest stories last spring was the City Council’s close and contentious vote to charge customers f...

This short Seth Barron piece in City Journal is the best essay I have seen thus far on illegal immigration in NYC. Give it a read.

I crunched the numbers from the FOILs that are out there and here is what I found: As of 2014: 124 couples in the system were from outsi...

From Crains : Privately owned public spaces are great when they work. But many POPS are neglected or poorly designed. That’s why the City ...

From Crains : On Thursday, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito backed an effort to reduce plastic bag use and waste. Councilman B...

From the Daily News : It takes an income of $636,866 a year to make you a member of the one percent in New York City. And members of tha...

From Crains : It was fitting that the governor came to the council speaker's defense, because Cuomo has become a big advocate of the “...