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The Voice and Its Village
September 07, 2018
When I think about my two stints at the now-shuttered Village Voice—for which I freelanced regularly from the late seventies to the late eighties, returning as a staff writer from 1994-1999—one unexpected but apt word that keeps popping to mind is “fecund.” My ...

Cut the Music
February 12, 2018
The NYPD’s secret M.A.R.C.H. operation has been closing the city’s venues for years—should it be abolished?

Fresh Hell
February 02, 2018
From Tween to Tycoon and You Can, Too! Dream big and learn fast coos Teen Bo$$, the latest in required reading for tweens and teens baptized in the entrepreneurial waters of the free market and ready to build a personal brand. Brought into the world last summer and targeting the ...

Joe Ricketts, Media Destroyer
November 06, 2017
As the old refrain goes, at Gothamist and DNAinfo the union made us strong---not Joe Ricketts, not his money, not his decisions and certainly not his “direction.”

Slumber of the UN Women
March 21, 2017
The United Nations’s sixty-first convening of its Commission on the Status of Women, ensconced in an impenetrable bureaucratic bubble. . .

A Moment of Urgency
February 16, 2017
On January 28, as protesters rushed to airports around the country seeking to defend refugees and migrants against Trump’s travel ban, taxi drivers with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance took the protest a step further and refused to pick up fares at JFK Airport. The taxi ...

The Irrational Exuberance of New York Real Estate
March 13, 2015
Now is the winter of our discount rent. Enjoy it while you can. On June 15, New York City’s rent regulations expire. One day later, the city’s 421a tax incentive program expires. In a city where housing advocates and housing developers already love doomsday rhetoric (either ...

The Disruption This Time
December 08, 2014
I’ve been attending and observing protests for thirty years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like what I’ve experienced in New York City over the last week. In the days after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to charge police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the choking ...

How to Make a Bikeshare Fair and Functional
April 08, 2014
No one, to my knowledge, gives out awards for Best Paranoid Transit Rant Of the Year. But if such an award existed, 2013’s would surely go to the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz, whose fevered monologue on Citi Bike, “Death by Bicycle,” was gifted to the ...