Nicole Gelinas
The Archive
Mayor Adams quietly makes city's 'migrant crisis' permanent with budget spending
In his budget proposal, the mayor has finally admitted to reality — the migrant “crisis” is here to stay, to the tune of $4.7 billion next year.
How City Hall frittered away $41M on no-bid migrant shelter deal with dodgy DocGo
The secret no-bid contract with the dodgy company is paying $1,100 a day for a single social worker and $65 an hour to security guards.
No, the MTA won't collapse without congestion pricing cash
Gov. Hochul’s cancellation of congestion pricing weeks before its start has thrown the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority into a crisis that requires an immediate solution: She must either reverse course or enact...
Broadway sings New York's blues as post-COVID comeback lags
New York’s failure to control crime is slowing its tourism recovery, as new statistics from Broadway’s theater industry show.
Progressives’ next goal: normalizing sexploitation with legal 'sex work'
New York will never eradicate prostitution. But that doesn’t mean New York should normalize and encourage it, as it is has done with marijuana.
Adams needs to make NYC livable NOW — before complicating it with problematic new zoning
Mayor Adams' "City of Yes" rezoning push can have benefits, but the mayor must understand that without competent enforcement of existing laws and rules, different uses don’t so much mix...
Alvin Bragg can help end protest violence — by throwing the book at the perps
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has never been shy about being an activist prosecutor who uses the discretion his office affords him to decide what behavior Manhattan will put up...
Even the 'peaceful' campus protests are actually violent bullying
Students and other campus protesters are free to engage in nonviolent protests. But that’s not what they’re doing: This isn’t free speech via peaceful protest, but threatening and menacing the rest of...
Mayor Adams' new budget sets NYC (and him) up for big trouble in Summer 2025
By using city tax receipts to fund education and migrant spending, Mayor Adams' new budget is increasing the hole he'll have to close in his next budget, even as he...
A Democrat's last-minute maneuvering shows just how dysfunctional Albany is
New York has a $237 billion state budget, three weeks late. Lawmakers added $4 billion in spending above the $233 billion Gov. Hochul proposed in January.
Mayor Adams' half-baked LockerNYC program gives for-profit companies taxpayer resources
The mayor Wednesday channeled a “universal concern” of New Yorkers: “When our packages are dropped off” at our houses, “they are taken. You got to love New York, man,” he...
As NY lawmakers bust the budget, cash-cow Wall Street is moving to greener pastures
Nobody is asking: Where does the money come from?
Adams' debit-cards-for-migrants scheme makes no sense
The Adams administration’s Roosevelt Hotel welcome center on Monday is finally handing out its first debit cards to migrants staying at hotels, to buy food and baby supplie
Enough talk, Mr. Mayor — you must act to stop shocking subway crime
Yet again, a commuter walks down the subway steps and is carried up in a body bag.
Mayor Adams' administration is gaslighting NYC on violent subway crime
How “rare” is subway crime? It’s so rare, the Times has to keep reminding us so.
Solution to subway mayhem is simple -- don't send in National Guard, enforce farebeating!
Thursday’s self-defense shooting upon a rush-hour Brooklyn A train is emblematic of everything Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams are doing wrong on subway violence.
Delays, violent crime: Report card on NYC subway reveals a system in crisis
From transit delays to violent crime in subway stations, a comprehensive look at how the MTA system.
NYC's dangerous transit system is harming kids by putting their rite of 'passage' at risk
In today's time in New York City, parents face another headache: How should my growing kid get around town, whether on the transit system, on foot or in a car,...
Viral TikTok highlights the insanity of NYC rent regulations
TikToker Carla Badami just racked up 4 million views for explaining how a rent-stabilized New York City tenant can ask the state government for a rent record and ensure it...
Flaco's life and death another example of NYC progressivism gone awry
So Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl is dead — killed in a collision with an Upper West Side building Friday, a year after vandals cut the wires on his cage, just inside the...