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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Every time the news came, the mayor winced. First Washington, D.C., announced its schools would start the year closed, then Los Angeles and San Diego, then Chicago.
On Behalf of the Plutocrats Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to head of the Partnership for New York City.
“I am not the Ivy League guy in this race, you know. I mean, I am CUNY,” Eric Adams says with a laugh on a late-morning F-train back to Borough Hall in Brooklyn after a rally for more mental-health beds at a Park Slope hospital.
We had just finished the interview and hung up the phone, when a few minutes later Max Rose called me back.
When the pandemic was first bearing down on New York City, before schools were closed or other elected officials were sounding the alarm, Corey Johnson was on the phone every night…
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.
“For the vast majority of New Yorkers, life is going on pretty normally right now,” Bill de Blasio said on Morning Joe March 10
There are certain things you are Very Much Not Supposed to Do at times like this, and Andrew Cuomo was doing them.
The bad blood was bubbling up from day one, or even before. It was there when Mike Bloomberg sat unsmiling on the dais in front of City Hall on the day when Bill de Blasio was sworn in.
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.
In his six years as mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio has eaten pizza with a knife and fork, refused to relinquish his Boston Red Sox fandom….
Lynne Patton has brought her boss’s bombastic style to a HUD job usually held by wonks and insiders.
The hail was coming down in great gusts outside, but inside the New York Irish Center, just off the freeway in Long Island City, Queens, dozens of activists and organizers crammed in […]
Jeff Bezos, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio walk into a bar.
That’s it. That’s the whole joke.
The Justice Democrats helped get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected. Who are they after next?
A massive online campaign that raised over $20 million in a matter of weeks in the hopes of providing Congress with the money to build a border wall is abruptly ending that effort
