A Rudy Awakening
While other Democrats keep comparing Eric Adams to Rudy Giuliani, he keeps comparing himself to Jesus Christ. My Daily News column in print on Sunday: As New...
Only a few are guilty, but all are responsible
My Sunday Daily News column on whose lives matter here in NYC: “For the next four years, let’s do something different: Let’s protect the innocent people,”...
A man with a job do to: Eric Adams is not a gift from God
My Sunday Daily News spread on NYC's intoxicating new mayor: Purim begins Wednesday night, and the story in the Book of Esther of an orphan who becomes queen...
Keeping score with Jewish casualties
My Sunday Daily News column: The attacks on American Jews can seem to blur together. There’s the Beth Israel synagogue in Charlottesville, Va. that the...
A cop-turned-mayor who distrusts the NYPD's leaders
Understanding that Eric Adams has faith in policing but doesn't trust NYPD bosses helps makes sense of a lot of his decisions so far as mayor. My Sunday...
One hell of a second chance
Phil Banks, who abruptly left the NYPD as the feds closed in on him and his friends in 2014, is overseeing the Department and atop the cops now as Eric...
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The hack who helped save NYC's kids
Some reading before New York City's schools reopen on Monday The hack and quack who saved NYC: Science, politics and the pandemic of 1918The trouble with the...
Lowlights Magazine for (Grown) Children
Read on to find out how Andrew Cuomo ended up as Goofus and Bill de Blasio as Gallant. (And contrary to the headline the Daily News put on this one, there’s...
Bribes, cops and second shots
I wrote a longer than usual column for the Daily News this week about Eric Adams and an old friend of his on the verge of getting off the bench he placed...
The wrong choice to oversee the NYPD
This guy? Really?! And I didn't even get to his role in the killing of Eric Garner in my Daily News column https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-...
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The Crime and the Cover-Up
I talked on election night with Ben Max and Chrissy Greer about New York City's election results on FAQ NYC, and wrote a column for the Daily News about what...
Election Day special
There's not much suspense about how things are going to turn out in New York City, so I wrote something for the Daily News on Sunday about how lousy our...
Eight Years and Two Accomplishments
This week, I talked transit on CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor, broke down the mayoral debate on FAQ NYC, and wrote about Bill de Blasio's...
Past is prologue for New York mayors
This week, I talked about Rikers on CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor, and about about the immortal idea that "New York Is Dead" on FAQ NYC. And I...
A new plan for Rikers
This week, I talked about Rikers Island and gun crime in New York on CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor, discussed vaccine mandates and more with...
Of Rats and Rikers
This week, I talked about how New York went from Occupy Wall Street to (a push to) evacuate Rikers Island in 10 years flat on CBS Eye on the World With John...
"What Do They Want?"
This week, I discussed what's changed in New York City in the 20 years since 9/11 on CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor. And I wrote for the Daily News...
20 Years Is a Very Long Time
I did not expect to see this painting or anything like it when I looked up and saw this affixed to the ceiling inside of a (since shuttered) side street...
So Long to the ‘Space Age’ Jail That Time Forgot
How did the lock-up in Manhattan where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself decline from the "most liberal prison in the world" that "people will be trying to...
The way the world ends
This last week's been a journey, as I joined CBS Eye on the World With John Batchelor to talk about refugees, migration and American fears, spoke with...