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Total Cuomo Show
April 30, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...

Go Down, Cuomo
April 16, 2020
Before coronavirus rendered New York a dystopia, September 11 was supposed to be the defining cataclysm of our lifetimes. The Boomers got JFK, and we got two planes obliterating the Twin Towers live on television. Nearly three thousand died in the 2001 terrorist attacks and out ...

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 ...