Like other progressive prosecutors, Alvin Bragg is trying to acknowledge that prison time doesn’t fight crime.

The New York City mayor’s sloganeering comes up against a reminder of the real city that he has to run.

In the 1980s, a government program helped Black families buy new homes amid fires and flight. Now that generation is moving south, as the neighborhood faces a new threat: affordability.

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place—bear with me—in Los Angeles.

Taxi drivers were targeted by predatory lending practices, leaving them owing $550,000 on average.

Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

Go west, media outlets: The lack of geographical perspective is damaging coverage of matters ranging from national politics to climate change.

The current panic about urban decay and disorder is classic displacement.

Traffic, car sales, and car rentals are rising, crushing the pandemic-era hope that streets could be reclaimed for pedestrians and bikers.

Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.

No, the results didn’t surprise “the left,” and no, they don’t support your arguments about elections everywhere else.

The mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsize personalities and master operators. Now it’s a snooze fest.

A celebrity candidate is leading in New York City’s mayoral race. Should we be worried?

The front-runner to become the next mayor of New York has a lot of big ideas. Few of them have much to do with running New York.

For nearly a year, the men of the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst of the city’s self-described liberal residents. They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy failure in permanent housing.

Eulogies for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.

Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger” is a toothsome morsel.

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant play a wealthy couple with a nasty secret in the HBO miniseries.

“It’s almost as if we’re guinea pigs in some way.”

How a group of Manhattan liberals used the language of “community” to evict people living in temporary housing from their neighborhood.