New York City Politics and Urbanism Daily

<p>Zohran Mamdani-backed congressional challengers swept key NYC Democratic primaries, toppling Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman while Claire Valdez won an open seat. The results mark a sharp power shift toward the...

Zohran Mamdani-backed congressional challengers swept key NYC Democratic primaries, toppling Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman while Claire Valdez won an open seat. The results mark a sharp power shift toward the...

MTA bus electrification is slipping amid manufacturer problems, while subway safety and performance reporting remain under scrutiny, raising a sharper question for New York riders: are transit reforms delivering...

<p>MTA bus electrification is slipping amid manufacturer problems, while subway safety and performance reporting remain under scrutiny, raising a sharper question for New York riders: are transit reforms delivering...

<p>MTA subway reliability reports face scrutiny over delay classifications, while City of Yes hits the classic implementation wall: zoning reform can permit housing, but financing, permitting, and construction capacity...

MTA subway reliability reports face scrutiny over delay classifications, while City of Yes hits the classic implementation wall: zoning reform can permit housing, but financing, permitting, and construction capacity...

City of Yes housing reforms frame a broader New York fight over how zoning, agency capacity, and affordability rules translate into actual homes, while MTA performance metrics show how official dashboards can miss...

<p>City of Yes housing reforms frame a broader New York fight over how zoning, agency capacity, and affordability rules translate into actual homes, while MTA performance metrics show how official dashboards can miss...

<p>NYC supportive housing gets a new HPD preservation program tied to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Block by Block plan, aiming to stabilize roughly 39,000 units with tax breaks and low-cost loans as subway safety numbers show...

<p>Mamdani administration’s SPEED housing plan puts NYC’s approval delays under the microscope, while subway-safety arguments show how reform fights turn on metrics, timelines, and whether policy actually changes...

<p>MTA subway delay metrics expose how official benchmarks can obscure rider experience, while NYC affordability formulas shape who actually gets subsidized homes. A budget-reform report adds the fiscal backdrop...

<p>New York City budget fight centers on the Council’s $6 billion alternative to property-tax hikes, while transit, zoning, and NYPD response-time fights all turn on whether better metrics can force City Hall from...

<p>New York City Council is pushing $60 million for affordable housing over libraries while budget math and G train shutdowns expose the city’s reform test: can City Hall turn public assets, fiscal forecasts, and...

<p>NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s SPEED housing plan aims to cut affordable-housing timelines by months or years, while Kathy Hochul says subway crime is on pace for a generational low—two reform fights turning on whether...

<p>NYPD subway crime stats show transit crime falling faster than citywide crime, complicating the politics of fear around public safety and the subway reform debate.</p><h3>In this episode</h3>Afraid of Crime in the...