When Tracy Santos woke up on Election Day, she wasn’t planning to vote. Her twins, who recently turned 18, pushed her to get to the polls, as did her husband who had voted early. Even her best friend called her Tuesday morning: They had made a plan to go vote together. “I just ignored the […]

James Felton Keith is trying not to talk too much about economic theory on the campaign trail. But that can be tough for the economist, ethnographer, former engineer and author who’s running for Congress in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx on a platform of universal basic income. The notion of every adult receiving an annual […]

When the City Planning Commission on Wednesday formally hears the mayor’s proposal to build a new jail in every borough except Staten Island, it will weigh some pointed pushback from borough presidents. Of the four, only Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is definitively in favor of her borough’s planned jail tower — and even then, […]