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Freestyle Love Supreme

‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ extended, ‘Love Actually’ parody headed to Off-Broadway

Posted on November 7, 2019

Immigrant asylum in a Brooklyn collective house

Posted on October 9, 2019

A topsy-turvy Washington order

Posted on October 9, 2019

Police Commissioner James O'Neill, left, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, and NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker at Tuesday's crime statistics briefing. Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

After a friendly fire shooting

Posted on October 8, 2019

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Race factors in reporting of criminal justice

Posted on October 8, 2019

The city is debating the future of gifted and talented education. Lou Lahana, a Manhattan teacher, is trying an alternative enrichment model.

‘A little bit of chaos’ and ‘passion-based learning’ in Manhattan

Posted on October 7, 2019

Staten Island Bus

Max Rose in the middle

Posted on October 4, 2019

A Zelensky story in New York

Posted on October 2, 2019

Get ready to tune in to ‘The Impeachment Show’

Posted on October 2, 2019

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‘We can figure this out’: MTA driver on bus living

Posted on October 1, 2019

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Joe Biden could be a Rudy Giuliani casualty

Posted on October 1, 2019

On Andrew Yang, the last Democratic 2020 New Yorker

Posted on September 30, 2019

A chill, if careful, read by Mayor Pete

Posted on September 30, 2019

In a town hall east of New York City, a sign of some of the challenges of impeachment.

Impeachment, a challenge for some NY Democrats

Posted on September 25, 2019

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Can we take back Mayor de Blasio’s key to NYC?

Posted on September 25, 2019

An annual report is out with most (but not all) of the numbers that make up NYC. Photo Credit: Yeong-Ung Yang

NYC by the numbers

Posted on September 24, 2019

Smog and a climate week in New York

Posted on September 24, 2019

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Two more cases of racism in New York City

Posted on September 24, 2019

Liquid traps, rat bags, and a brief history of NYC animal politics

Posted on September 18, 2019

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There’s a political solution to protect endangered animals

Posted on September 18, 2019

An abolitionist group is protesting part of the plan to close Rikers Island, with a related vote imminent.

No New Jails and the bid to close Rikers

Posted on September 17, 2019

NYPD needs a competent spokesperson

Posted on September 17, 2019

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Warren’s path, through New York

Posted on September 16, 2019

Why ‘Mookie’ grasps ‘Moscow Mitch’ moniker

Posted on September 13, 2019

A crucial commission has its first public hearing in NYC. It got tense. Photo Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.

Fusion, public campaign finance, and a ‘laboratory for democracy’

Posted on September 11, 2019

Biden’s book ahead of Democratic debate

Posted on September 10, 2019

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‘Out of the rubble came her hand’: An oral history of 9/‌11

Posted on September 9, 2019

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Last days of de Blasio 2020?

Posted on September 4, 2019

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza at Tweed Courthouse, the education department's headquarters.

Smart kids, clueless NYC education leaders?

Posted on September 4, 2019

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Riders Alliance, turning straphangers ‘into a voting constituency’

Posted on September 3, 2019

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Any confidence in this no-confidence vote?

Posted on September 3, 2019

Helping the fish migrate along the Bronx River.

Chutes and fish ladders

Posted on September 2, 2019

Julián Castro’s narrative and the narrowing 2020 field

Posted on August 28, 2019

Is Labor Day weekend really anything to celebrate?

Posted on August 28, 2019

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‘These suicides have been ridiculous’: NYPD lieutenant speaks

Posted on August 27, 2019

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Subway premonitions and mayoral town halls

Posted on August 26, 2019

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Commissioner O’Neill caves in Pantaleo case

Posted on August 26, 2019

A Trump vs. Obama street (name) fight

Posted on August 22, 2019

Opinion

A Trump vs. Obama street (name) fight

Posted on August 21, 2019

Garner story is far from over

Posted on August 19, 2019

Opinion

Micromobility is big thinking

Posted on August 19, 2019

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Two Woodstock stories

Posted on August 14, 2019

Anatomy of a ‘Godfather’ insult

Posted on August 13, 2019

The ‘great replacement’ lie

Posted on August 13, 2019

Riding along (accidentally) with a former congressional candidate with thoughts for 2020.

A congressional candidate turned Uber driver

Posted on August 12, 2019

Autonomous cars debut for the public in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Your columnist takes a journey to the future.

Autonomous cars come to Brooklyn

Posted on August 7, 2019

Author Toni Morrison died this week. Can future novelists reach across America the way she did?

Can there be another Toni Morrison?

Posted on August 6, 2019

Chiusano: For all those who responded to 9/‌11

Posted on August 4, 2019

More from around NYC

The Bronx Defenders grilled burgers and hotdogs for hundreds of hungry neighbors who had worked up an appetite enjoying music and games at the block party.

Bronx Defenders host annual community block party

Children harvest plants at the hydroponics lab at New York Hall of Science. Photo courtesy of NY Sun Works/New York Hall of Science.

Queens families harvest over 50 pounds of produce at NYSCI’s hydroponics lab

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After months of backlash, city to close concrete recycling facility in Columbia Waterfront District

Jason Patel and Ben Hardy in "Unicorns."

Q&A with ‘Unicorns’ actors Jason Patel and Ben Hardy