Meet the Socialists Who Won Big in NYC
New York City’s democratic socialist movement demolished the political establishment across New York City on Tuesday. Nine of the…
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The final races at the venerable horse racing track are on Sunday, June 28.
“Freeze the Rent! Melt the ICE!”
Manhattan tenants testify for rent freeze on one and two-year leases.
Hasan Piker Headlines NYC-DSA Rally in Bushwick Two Days Before Start of Early Voting
Piker has been traveling around the United States this year to support socialist and progressive candidates.
When the Garden Played Second Fiddle: The Knicks’ Twenty-Year Romance with the 69th Regiment Armory
The Knicks are the kings of New York after Saturday night’s thrilling, come-from-behind victory delivered the team’s long-suffering fans their first championship since 1973. The team’s journey to iconic status hasn’t been easy, especially in its early days when it often found itself banished from Madison Square Garden to a cavernous armory building on the other side of Manhattan.
Darializa Avila Chevalier’s First Broadcast Interview Offered a Window Into the Campaign to Come
Long before NY-13 became one of the most high profile congressional races in the country, the rookie candidate spoke at length with The Indypendent News Hour.
Queens Tenants Rally Against Rent Hikes As RGB Public Hearing Get Underway
A rent freeze is the minimum goal, tenants say as June 25 Rent Guidelines Board final decision approaches.
Questions Remain About How Mamdani’s COGE Chief Makes His Money
Veteran Democratic Party operative Patrick Gaspard will lead the mayor’s Commission on Government Efficiency, which will conduct a top to bottom review of city spending and who benefits. The potential for influence peddling is real if potential conflicts of interest are not made clear from the beginning.
DSA Candidates Face Onslaught of Pro-Israel Spending in Final Weeks of NY’s Democratic Primaries
Past supporters of Solidarity PAC—a New York version of AIPAC—are making large individual contributions in Assembly races where pro-Israel incumbents are facing strong challenges from the left.
The Park Slope Food Co-op Boycott Vote Emerged from Our History of Creating a More Just World
A longtime member of the Coop describes how it has evolved over the decades from a funky countercultural space to a modern grocery store while maintaining a social justice mission that now includes Palestine.