Cars and pedestrians don’t get along. We all know that — especially when cars are going fast. more

The Democratic Socialists of America asking city council candidates to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is not a fair question, but an exercise in hate. more

The headline of a recent editorial is based upon questionable estimates about the cost of a special election. more

I just got an email from Riverdale’s state senator, Alessandra Biaggi, insisting that it’s time to tax the super rich to solve New York’s COVID-19-caused financial crisis. more

Wayne Price certainly has a right to his opinions, but he is factually mistaken when he calls the Jews of Israel “a mostly European population.” more

My longstanding love affair with New York City has hit a rough patch. more

In a time of national reckoning over who should be toppled from their pedestal, it is also a time to consider honorable public figures who may have been wronged by a racially biased judicial system. A leading African American official of New York City, Larry Seabrook, was a state senator, a state Assemblyman, and lastly a city councilman. more

Some of the days since New York City schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic have felt like weeks, while others have passed with the blink of an eye. But as parents, one thing has remained constant: Our devotion to the health and well-being of our children. more

Recently enacted emergency legislation protecting New Yorkers from eviction and supported by our local legislators makes a good start on a newly visible housing catastrophe. Too many of our Bronx neighbors face deeply entrenched housing inequity: Scarcity of affordable housing makes rents unaffordable, and forces overcrowding into substandard buildings. more

Francisco Montes went to work every day when most of us in New York City stayed safely at home in an effort to flatten the COVID-19 curve. Francisco was one of hundreds of essential workers who continued to toil for long hours during the worst of the pandemic. They risked their health and that of their families, serving community members as they stockpiled toilet paper and basic food staples to hunker down. more