Nicole Gelinas
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Mayor Adams puts taxpayers on the hook for $1.6 billion a year on migrants — maybe through 2029!
Mayor Eric Adams is trying to ensure that one big feature of his mayoralty stays in office, even if he doesn’t: billions of dollars in taxpayer money to put migrants...
Biden's forced end to port strike is a bad deal for us all
Biden strong-armed the ports into a bad deal that in the long run will push up prices — and?harm?organized labor.
Mayor Hochul to the rescue? Guv can help NYC amid Adams mess
Gotham needs a strong governor to fill the power vacuum Hizzoner’s scandals have created — and Hochul has powers she can wield to the city’s benefit.
MTA's $68.4B capital plan: pure fiction and 'a cry for help'
Unless and until Gov. Hochul becomes a firmer leader, the MTA's massive infrastructure plan will remain unfunded — a lot of ideas, and no way to pay for them.
Scandal, incompetence put Adams at risk of irrelevance
This administration doesn’t even appear to grasp the seriousness of its predicament as Eric Adams slides into irrelevance.
Adams' corruption laxity threatens his public safety agenda
Federal raids at the homes of the mayor's three top public-safety officials imperils Adams’?already-fragile claim to mayoral success.
MTA can defeat the bus-fare deadbeats — here's how
With just half of riders paying, the only thing that will change people’s minds is if they know a penalty will be swift, certain and actually collected.
Hochul's new plan: congestion pricing for thee, not for me
Higher “prices” in the form of this new tax aren’t for everyone, of course: Only the private sector must pay.
NY should follow UK's lead and jail unlawful protesters
In Britain, prosecutors and judges are applying the law so that the illegal actions of demonstrators of all political stripes have real consequences.
Don't romanticize Europe's unreliable high-speed rail
One reason high-speed rail “works” in Europe is that its customers will put up with inconvenience and uncertainty that Americans would never tolerate.
What's the real migrant crime rate in NYC? We have no idea
Last Monday, Venezuelan migrant Sandra Serrano?was shot?and killed outside the Randall’s Island migrant shelter, caught in the crossfire in what police think was a retaliatory shooting for a robbery.
Adams' e-bike boondoggle does nothing for public safety
City Hall is?rewarding?delivery apps' irresponsible corporate behavior by subsidizing it, spending taxpayer money to do what employers should do: give workers safe equipment.
NYPD's whack-a-mole: crime drops in subway, spikes outside
New York’s public-safety resources are stretched thin, something Eric Adams has never addressed with a long-term plan.
City needs a jailbreak to escape pricey plan to close Rikers
Mayor Adams should scrap de Blasio's flawed program to build “smaller, safer, fairer" borough jails — before it sucks up even more money needed to fix bridges, schools and parks.
City's migrant debit-card spending balloons — as no-bid vendor rakes in a fortune
According to the city's no-bid contract, more than $250,000 went in fees to the company providing the cards.
City Council takes Adams for a ride on risky budget 'plane'
Mayor Adams brandished a toy airplane to boast of his $112.4 billion budget agreement with the City Council — but the deal showed he'd had no flight plan.
Mayor Adams quietly makes city's 'migrant crisis' permanent with budget spending
In his budget proposal, the mayor has finally admitted to reality — the migrant “crisis” is here to stay, to the tune of $4.7 billion next year.
How City Hall frittered away $41M on no-bid migrant shelter deal with dodgy DocGo
The secret no-bid contract with the dodgy company is paying $1,100 a day for a single social worker and $65 an hour to security guards.
No, the MTA won't collapse without congestion pricing cash
Gov. Hochul’s cancellation of congestion pricing weeks before its start has thrown the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority into a crisis that requires an?immediate?solution: She must either reverse course or enact...
Broadway sings New York's blues as post-COVID comeback lags
New York’s failure to control crime is slowing its tourism recovery, as new statistics from Broadway’s theater industry show.