BY DEBORAH GLICK  |  A new year brings with it the opportunity to reflect on what has been both positive and negative about the prior year, and to make decisions about how to approach the coming months. Many of these new year’s resolutions fade almost as soon as they are made. But this year, in [...]

BY SHELDON SILVER  |  In Lower Manhattan, where the cost of living is very high, it is essential that we provide our residents with all the tools they need to succeed and thrive. I am proud of the great strides we have made in rebuilding and improving our Downtown community. Now, we must fix the [...]

By JERRY TALLMER  |  One evening when I was in senior year in high school and trying to decide where to head next, my father brought home for dinner a young man who had recently completed four years at Dartmouth College up in Hanover, New Hampshire — far enough from and yet near enough to [...]

BY CAROL GREITZER  |  Villagers should feel absolutely no reticence in asserting their opposition to New York University’s monstrous, grandiose 2031 plan. In view of the past shady actions of the old Board of Estimate, the community has a strong moral claim to demanding that current city officials take steps to right these wrongs — or at [...]

BY BILL WEINBERG  |  Last year, I was approached by Peter Lamborn Wilson — the elusive underground intellectual who is a refugee from the Lower East Side — who beseeched me to revive the Libertarian Book Club. Revolution was shaking the Arab world, although the wave had not yet come to Europe, Wall St. and [...]

By ED KOCH  |  I was surprised to learn of the letter sent by Congressman Jerry Nadler — who is my congressman, by the way — to Attorney General Eric H. Holder requesting the attorney general to investigate, as The New York Times stated, “whether the police in New York and other cities had deprived [...]

TALKING POINT: By ANDREW BERMAN  |  It’s been talked about and debated for years. But now the moment has finally arrived. New York University has filed its application for a series of city approvals to allow its 20-year expansion plan. If approved, N.Y.U. would shoehorn 2.5 million square feet of space — the equivalent of [...]

BY SHELDON SILVER  |  Since we first introduced our proposal to extend New York’s “millionaire’s tax” in May, the state Assembly’s Democratic conference has led the way in the fight to bring fairness to our tax code. We strongly believe that those making $50,000 a year should not be paying the same tax rate as [...]

BY MARGARET S. CHIN  | Since the release of the 2010 Census, one headline has been used to sum up the experience of Chinese-Americans in New York over the past decade: “Chinatown is shrinking.” For Asian Americans, such as myself, who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that ethnic communities, like Chinatown, receive their fair [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER  |  Ben Shahn stared down at me from the wall. Two deep-set, coal-black, piercing eyes floating in space above a clown’s nose, a ringmaster’s pursed lips “Let me tell you how it was back in the day,” artist Shahn said. “We were all kept alive and kicking in those years — writers, [...]