Anticipating the Adams Administration: Clues, Contradictions and the Hegemony of Capital
Eric Adams has been loyal to the wealthy and powerful who largely financed his campaign. He is also a vegan and a cycling enthusiast.
The Indypendent
Gentrification
Eric Adams Embraces Big Real Estate. What’s In It for the Rest of Us?
In recent months, many of the biggest names in Manhattan real estate have joined the multi-million dollar fundraising bandwagon that brought Adams, the would-be “blue-collar mayor,” to Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons.
The Rise of Occupy Wall Street: The Movement Moment That Revived The U.S. Left
Ten years ago this fall a protest movement took root in Lower Manhattan that transformed how we think about inequality and reinvigorated the Left.
Twenty Years Later: How the New World Trade Center Became a Monument to Greed and Power
Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that…
Stringer Blocks Controversial East River Coastal Resiliency Contract, For Now
His decision comes two days after critics rallied outside his office.
We look at the centuries-old struggle for public parks that serve all New Yorkers, not just the rich.
Social Justice Bait-and-Switch
City invokes George Floyd’s name in order to justify developer giveaway in SoHo rezoning battle.
Showdown in City Council District 35
It’s liberals vs. leftists in a battle for a seat that runs through Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
Rezoning Revamp: Neighborhood Groups Wary of Speaker Johnson’s Top-Down Process
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has introduced legislation to revamp the city’s 46-year-old process for making land-use decisions. The…
Housing for Whom? City and State Nix Plan to Build Affordable Housing at World Trade Center Site
Will Biden go along in saying no to 1,000 affordable housing units?