My first inkling that strong convictions were not necessarily conducive to longevity in the newspaper business came in 1979, working for a chain of Brooklyn weeklies known as Courier-Life. I had …

Maureen Connelly spoke with a certain disbelief Feb. 28 in assessing the political ad that Andrew Cuomo had begun circulating earlier that afternoon. It used fragments of news reports about the …

Even the most-resourceful police officers sometimes benefit, in solving crimes, from the reality that many criminals are morons. A reasonably smart bank-robber understands that if he's just made …

Late last year, Eddie Kay called me to ask how I was doing, inform me he had been dealing with some health issues, and mention that he was supporting Jumaane Williams for Governor, just as he had for …

"It's hard to say exactly," Mike the Cop replied when asked Feb. 10 about the mood on the street among officers, not quite three weeks after Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were fatally shot by a …

The last time Andrew Cuomo offered the impression he was a reformer was a decade ago, when in mid-February 2012 he announced a plan for permanently reforming the way districts were chosen for seats …

Alvin Bragg was four weeks into his apprenticeship as the man who decides what constitutes justice in Manhattan when Dominique Luzuriaga called him out as a guilty bystander sitting in a pew at St. …

Three years ago, the Democratic Socialists of America issued a memo outlining how to quietly gain enduring power in a half-dozen city unions in the public and private sectors, among them District …

When Mayor Adams quietly named his brother Bernard a Deputy Police Commissioner Jan. 7, the thought occurred that this was an attempt to keep his equally new Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, Philip …

The day after the deranged traitor Donald Trump told journalist Hugh Hewitt last September that he was considering running for President in 2024, a Capitol Police Officer who generally avoids …