January 2025

Thousands of New Apartments on Brooklyn’s Waterfront? Not So Fast Say Some Key Deciders.

New York Today

Just south of Brooklyn Bridge Park, six cranes dot the waterfront. Just one of them is in service, bringing in around 90,000 containers per year that come to Red Hook’s port — mostly food from Latin America and the Caribbean. Of the five other cranes at Brooklyn Marine Terminal, two sit on condemned, crumbling piers. […]

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Letter from London

Politic

As some of you know, I have been spending half my time in London (watching my grandsons grow up) since I retired from New York State government in 2023. There is an old saw that the United States and Great Britain are “two great countries divided by a common language.” That may be true in

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Adams Ally in Charge of City Leasing Demanded Lucrative City Gig for Favored Broker, Suit Alleges

New York Today

A longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams who oversees city leases installed a real estate broker with close personal ties to himself and another top Adams aide to advise the city on municipal leases, a position that would generate millions of dollars in commissions for their friend, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges. Jesse Hamilton, a

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Pope Francis Makes Trump Critic New Washington Archbishop

Discussions

Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo President-elect Donald Trump appears to be experiencing some memory issues in recalling the ways of Washington, as evidenced by his confusing indecision over his party’s basic legislative strategy for implementing his agenda. But there’s about to be one irritating presence in our nation’s capital that he didn’t experience before: a new

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The Hard Right Isn’t Mike Johnson’s Biggest Problem Anymore

Discussions

Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Ever since Republicans took back control of the U.S. House in 2022, their biggest concern has been the unruly hard-right members of the House Freedom Caucus, who have exploited narrow margins of control to keep pressure on their colleagues to obey their wishes. They were largely responsible for ending the Speakership

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Local economy enters 2025 on solid footing, but housing headwinds persist, report says

Latest News

One of New York’s biggest boosters is taking stock of where the city stands heading into the new year. Record-high employment and a diversifying economy are key bright spots for the city, according to the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s first-ever year-end analysis of the local economy, released on Tuesday. But the report also

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Adams official conspired with Cushman & Wakefield to monopolize city leases, lawsuit alleges

Latest News

In an explosive new lawsuit, a real estate firm is accusing the brokerage Cushman & Wakefield of conspiring with high-level officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to steer lucrative city leases toward a single broker with ties to the mayor’s inner circle. JRT Realty made the claims in a complaint filed Monday against Cushman &

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Board of Elections Director Made Racial and Sexual Remarks to Female Employees, City Probe Finds

New York Today

A behind-the-scenes Department of Investigation probe documented evidence that the white male director of the city’s election board routinely made racially insensitive and sexually suggestive remarks to two top-level minority female staffers, prompting the independent watchdog agency to recommend that he resign, THE CITY has learned. Michael Ryan, executive director of the Board of Elections,

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