Huge news for Queens! Steve and Alexandra Cohen give $116m to LaGuardia Community College to build a state-of-the-art workforce training center in Western Queens. Gift is Largest Ever to a Community College in the US! Largest Donation in CUNY history! www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2024/…

I am a New Yorker born and bred, and I have ridden subways forever. I refer to the Q train as my reading room. The vast majority of riders pay fares and are law abiding. To pretend crime and disorder are vanishingly rare and not problems is a terrible condescension.

New: Two right-wing Israeli journalists traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., a little over a week ago, hoping to elicit from Donald J. Trump a powerful expression of support for their country’s war in Gaza. Instead, one of them wrote that what they heard from Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Brunson most popular NYC athlete since Jeter and it's not particularly close.

This represents an absolutely pathetic failure of government at all levels. nytimes.com/2024/06/08/nyr…

i wrote about #WillieMays, and my dad. @nymag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

A Different Take On Jamaal Bowman, Israel & NY-16 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-diffe… via Talking Points Memo

On the Jamaal Bowman race the dominant narrative confuses case and effect on why he’s likely to lose his seat tomorrow talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-diffe… via Talking Points Memo

.Mike Bloomberg is right: Kids’ use of smartphones in school is doing very real harm. NYC Public Schools should follow LA’s lead to ban their use during the school day.

WATCH ⬇️ Micah Lasher, winning Dem primary for Upper West Side Assembly District, after acknowledging his Jewish interns: “I am aware that for some of our interns, our campaign was a place where you could be both a proud progressive and a proud Zionist.”

Come with me back to the Fourth of July 1924. The Klan-infected Democratic convention in New York was paralyzed, while the Klan was parading through Long Branch, just 40 miles south. It’s been said that history doesn’t repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. nytimes.com/2024/07/05/us/…

The president is rightfully proud of his record. But he is dangerously out-of-touch with the concerns people have about his capacitiies moving forward and his standing in this race. Four years ago at this time, he was 10 points ahead of Trump. Today, he is six points behind.

Phenomenal piece.

The pandemic both revealed and exacerbated the inequities in American health and medicine. This historic gift will begin to address this crisis. washingtonpost.com/education/2024…

nytimes.com/2024/08/06/opi… "Clear eyes, full hearts can't lose."

Sports is the universal language - and if I’m talking football with someone it doesn’t matter if they are a Republican or a Democrat. And once we are in a conversation who knows what other common ground we can find. We just have to begin the conversation. nytimes.com/2024/08/06/opi…

The ⁦The New York Times⁩ has decided to throw up its hands and let New York’s leaders emerge based on the half-truths promoted by politicians rather than the vast trove of reliable information gathered by the paper of record. What a colossal blunder. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Inspired by a trip to the Olympics, Micah Lasher has returned from Paris with some big ideas to make NYC better. nydailynews.com/2024/08/18/new…

Paris dreamed big for the Olympics. I wrote about what it would mean for New York to do the same — even without the Games — in today’s New York Daily News. nydailynews.com/2024/08/18/new…

BREAKING: Tim Walz just spoke at Aliquippa High School’s Football Practice. That Walz can walk into a football practice and communicate like this makes him one of the strongest communicators in the Democratic party. Retweet so all Americans see this.