When New Yorkers dial 911, they expect help — fast, skilled and lifesaving. Yet for too long, the city’s emergency medical services — FDNY EMS — have been treated like a side note instead of a pillar of the city’s emergency response infrastructure...
Jack Lundquist is a District Council 37 Local 375 delegate and a member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral Democratic Party primary is a case study in effective...
Every day, everywhere I go — whether it’s at a town hall, on the streets, or when participating in an interview — I hear about the quality-of-life issues that affect New Yorkers’ daily lives. I am proud of the progress we have made bringing down...
Melania Trump has not appeared on the cover of Vogue or any other major fashion magazine in the eight years since she first became first lady. Every other president's wife since Herbert Hoover has. She has been excluded for one reason...
Marc Bullaro is a retired NYC Department of Correction assistant deputy warden. In 2021-2022, there were 12 suicides in New York City jails. Many actions can be taken to prevent detainee suicides, namely ending mass incarceration, decarceration...
My mother was a single parent who worked three jobs just to make sure my siblings and I had a roof over our heads and food on the table — so I know the struggle to live a better life is real. A college education can help New Yorkers...
My friend got his intestines surgically gerrymandered because he was having digestion problems. The body adjusts and adapts. So do legal systems when their ideals just can't get the job done. We rest on the laurels of history, sometimes not...
Bernard Whalen is a former NYPD lieutenant and the co-author of “The NYPD’s First Fifty Years” and “Case Files of the NYPD.” Zohran Mamdani hasn’t won the mayoral election, but already he thinks he knows more about how to police New York City...
Eric Adams is mayor of New York City. When I came into office, affordable housing was at the top of my agenda, and I didn’t need any studies or polls to tell me why. New Yorkers were telling me every day, every chance they got. I heard it at the...
We all know people who worship police officers no matter what they do, and others who have an unconditional kneejerk loathing of cops. Such is the obstinacy of competing mythologies. Cops are neither inherently heroic nor abusive. They are...
New York Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato represents portions of Queens. I want to say this very loudly: EMS workers save lives. They work in some of the most difficult and stressful conditions and when we have an emergency they come to...
If integrity were ever to regain a foothold, so that decisions were made exactly for the stated reasons and not as products of ulterior political calculation, we could conclude that something must have gone awry with the proclivities of government...
Eric Adams is mayor of New York City. Working-class families deserve nothing less than a hard-working administration that puts their needs first. And when it comes to childcare and after-school programming, this administration has listened to the...
David Mirtz is a co-chair of the NYC Working Families Party Some elections prove to be turning points in politics. For the Democratic Party in New York, Assemblyman Zorhan Mamdani decisive mayoral primary win over the well-connected and...
"Spontaneous intestinal combustion and rot, multiple organ failure and liquefaction, migrating clots, pooling of congealed discolored blood, malignant hemorrhaging, sudden projectile vomiting of bile, catalepsy and massive skin slippage. If...
Bernard Whalen is a former NYPD lieutenant and the co-author of “The NYPD’s First Fifty Years” and “Case Files of the NYPD.” When it comes to New York City mayoral elections, the candidate who secures the Democratic party nomination is presumed...
When the call to public service and the duplicitous itch to "give back to the community" dovetails with rabid ambition, there can be no compromise or chances taken. Every "t" must be crossed, "i" dotted and every box checked. In the pursuit...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary has upended the city’s political landscape. Critics dismissed his policy proposals — city-owned grocery stores, free buses, expansive rent control — as unrealistic, while a barrage of...
New York State's Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAiD) passed both legislative chambers with flying mourning colors and awaits Governor Hochul's signature as soon as she can gauge the electoral winds and reconcile it with her negotiable...
There are now no differences among them. The calendars of their lives have run out, and all their legacies are equalized. The dates of birth and death on their stone monuments yield nothing about their individuality when alive. Their...
The most impeccable logic may be non-transferable even when applied to similar contexts. Unlike rats, which can adapt to almost all environments, rationality may not endure the harshest climates. The reason is not meteorological, but...
Murat M. Akaydin is a volunteer with Veterans for All Voters, serves as board chair of the Generation Vote Education Fund and is pursuing a law degree at CUNY School of Law. I’m a native New Yorker, born to working-class Turkish immigrants who...
Anthony Almojera is a lieutenant with FDNY EMS, the vice president of Local 3621 FDNY Uniformed EMS Officers and the author of “Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic.” For nearly three years, New York City’s EMTs...
Astoria, Queens, is now a tortuous asphalt maze of unforgiving closed streets, bright green paint, white lines, warning signs and merciless traffic arrows pointing and entrapping motorists into a gridlocked abyss. Drivers are stressed to the...
In the struggle to establish credibility as social justice warriors, half the battle is showing up, barking and flashing righteous indignation, while hiding tell-tale signs of the unowned hypocrisy of fiercely defended personal privilege, and...