David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
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On Behalf of the Plutocrats Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to head of the Partnership for New York City.
Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.
People are dying, the governor is popular, everyone is inside—suddenly the city is all upside down.
There are certain things you are Very Much Not Supposed to Do at times like this, and Andrew Cuomo was doing them.
Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
Trump saw Giuliani harness racism, say-anything recklessness (“bullshit!”), and a 24-hour news cycle to win two terms as mayor of New York City. Those lessons became his blueprint.
Because this is a story about Max Rose, it has to at some point find him at Jody’s Club Forest, a Staten Island bar he famously frequents.
People are dying, the governor is popular, everyone is inside—suddenly the city is all upside down.
Lynne Patton has brought her boss’s bombastic style to a HUD job usually held by wonks and insiders.
The Justice Democrats helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected. Who are they after next?
It is the Wednesday after the midterms, and comedian and longtime New York political stuntman Randy Credico is smoking an e-cigarette at the Friars Club bar
A porn star in the courtroom? The president’s secrets at stake? Why Kimba Wood isn’t even blinking.
Crazy man or chess master? 4 hours with Donald Trump’s wildest adviser.
The New York senator has made sexual assault the focus of her political career. Now, the world has caught up with her.
Over the past year the Met has weathered unprecedented challenges, including an $8.2 million deficit. Can a new leader save the venerable New York institution?
Cuomo stops. He wags a finger in mock annoyance, a broad smile across his face. “Don’t start trouble for me today. You are supposed to be my friends. This is not helpful.”
Jared Kushner, through pedigree and temperament, could reach out one of his long, elegant fingers and tap everyone in the West Wing on the shoulder and urge them to just cool out a bit.
Getting fired by Trump looked like a perfect PR move for the hugely ambitious and popular New York prosecutor. Just one problem, say his friends.
"I like you. You and me, we’re going to be best friends.”
It is early January, and Eric Schneiderman is sitting in his 25th-floor office above Lower Manhattan, doing his best Donald Trump impression, puckering his lips into a duck face, scrunching up his nose and lowering his voice into something that resembles the president’s outer-borough growl.
