As cost of living increases, what can the City learn from Frank's Bike Shop to help support small businesses in 2026?

We dug into the the meat of the P3 process and an successful (with receipts!) example in Georgia.

The online "intellectuals" are too focused on what's wrong with the playbook instead of what's right.

Dangerous by Design indeed.

Dangerous by Design indeed.

I'm back and I'm focused.

Ryder Kessler is a child of Assembly District 66: a gay kid born at St. Vincent’s Hospital who played little league basketball at Tony Dapolito and got his Bar Mitzvah cake at Veniero’s. He has spent ...

Doing stuff and a few small (big) articles.

You can just do stuff

I have a few questions. All respondents will be entered into a random draw to get a free yearlong subscription. Two winners will be chosen by 1/31/26. More on that later. You can expect the survey to ...

Hold your nose and hope for thes best. It's not "Life After Cars," but something totally different.

So where do we start? WIth the current table as it's set.

The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.

Shining up the words and ideas of a great thinker and friend.

Pod Save Us All and Introducing the Rebrand

Island Press Sale and I'm Not Even Stressed.

Well, not Dumb so much as thinking you're too dumb to fall for the propaganda. It's just disingenuous.

What a week to be literate and conscious. Three ideas to stick it to these morons.

I could go back and count what number we're on, but let's do a fresh start. RAISE the (r)oof!

New York City and State have a "novel" approach to the e-bike "problem." The current legislation proves we're completely out of our depth and have no chance at all whatsoever at fixing our streets.

Anatomy of a Bill

Anatomy of a Bill

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