Tagging someone’s property doesn’t actually make it yours

In January, Jason Williams, a Los Angeles-based artist whose tag is Revok, sent a cease-and-desist letter to clothing retailer H&M, complaining that the company had shot a commercial in front of a mural Williams had painted at a Brooklyn playground. In February, a group of spray can artists who had painted pieces on the famous 5Pointz building in Long Island City won a $6.7 million award owner Jerry Wolkoff ripped down his own building.Graffiti writers who sue anyone for using or destroying their work are ultimately damaging the future of their own art form.

• By Ben Adler
• March 21, 2018

Latest value capture proposal could harm NYC

City taxes should not be diverted to the MTA without local input.

• By Carol Kellermann
• March 21, 2018

The MTA is leaving disabled New Yorkers behind

Subway station renovations in New York City should include accessibility for the disabled.

• By Edith M. Prentiss
• March 20, 2018

Cuomo, don’t cut child welfare funding

Gov. Andrew Cuomo would undo two decades of progress on child welfare funding by slashing New York City's resources.

• By Jennifer March and James Purcell
• March 19, 2018

Armed school officers could turn the state Senate blue

The fate of state Sen. Simcha Felder's bill arming guards in schools could impact which party he caucuses with.

• By Jeff Coltin
• March 18, 2018

Eric Adams calls for full public financing of elections

Saying there’s still too much private money in New York City politics, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is calling for full public financing of elections.

• By Jeff Coltin
• March 16, 2018

NYCHA tenants deserve rent abatements for missing heat

The law requires a refund for uninhabitable conditions.

• By Judith Goldiner and Lucy Newman
• March 15, 2018

How to fix New York City's dangerous private sanitation industry

43 New Yorkers have died in crashes with private sanitation in the last eight years.

• By Sean T. Campbell
• March 14, 2018

Cuomo takes on guns, NYCHA and the Percoco verdict

Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined students walking out to protest gun violence. Afterward, he took questions from the press on the conviction of Joseph Percoco, his former senior aide.

• By Grace Segers
• March 14, 2018

3 myths Trump’s budget proposal wants you to believe about public housing

NYCHA would suffer under Trump's policies that are based on false premises.

• By Judi Kende
• March 8, 2018

An open letter to NYC’s first nightlife mayor

5 suggestions for Ariel Palitz from those responsible for creating her new job.

• By Rafael Espinal, Rachel Nelson and Allen Roskoff
• March 8, 2018

How New York City reduced crime and incarceration

The city's remarkable success has lessons that can be replicated.

• By Greg Berman and Julian Adler
• March 7, 2018

Patchett's EDC: From Amazon to Willets Point

• By Rebecca C. Lewis
• March 5, 2018

Why the attacks against my Black History Education bill are racist

Fringe groups like the Working Families Party, Make NY True Blue and Indivisible feel intellectually superior to everyone and believe they determine who is a Democrat and who is not, and define who is black enough and what it means to be a public servant in communities of color. 

With this disconnected view, activists shamefully slammed my effort to pass the Black History Education bill during Black History Month. 


• By Jesse Hamilton
• March 3, 2018

NYC’s new schools chancellor should make college success matter

The most important item on the next New York City school's chancellor’s to-do list is hardly being discussed: preparing vastly more students to succeed in college, argue Tom Hilliard and Matt A.V. Chaban of the Center for an Urban Future.

• By Matt A.V. Chaban and Tom Hilliard
• March 1, 2018

Other political figures who backed out of appointments

Alberto Carvalho isn’t the first politician to withdraw from a position – although in his case, it wasn’t driven by scandal or controversy but because he was beloved by local school board members and students who wanted him to stay. Here are some other national figures who have made waves by declining a position after being nominated.

• By Grace Segers
• March 1, 2018

New Yorkers whose names were their destinies

Chevy Chase isn't the only one whose name is his or her destiny

• By Grace Segers
• February 23, 2018

IDC's Peralta gets second challenger, who would be a first

Andrea Marra wants to be NY’s first transgender state senator

• By David Colon
• February 22, 2018

Transit problems threaten New York’s economic future

Amazon and other tech companies want a subway system that runs on time.

• By Julie Samuels
• February 19, 2018

Not just Trump: New Yorkers in the White House

For President's Day, we look at presidents from New York.

• By Grace Segers
• February 16, 2018