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.
Pennsylvania National Guard troops were dispatched to Philadelphia on Friday in an effort to quell unrest there after four days of protests in the wake of the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. in West Philadelphia on Monday.
We had just finished the interview and hung up the phone, when a few minutes later Max Rose called me back.
John Anzalone was having a rare evening off from the presidential race, going out to a socially distanced outdoor dinner with his wife and another couple near his home in Montgomery, Alabama.
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.
He’s getting in late. He’s out of step with his party. The news media thinks he’s a joke. All of that was true when he first ran for mayor of New York City, too.
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.
“Is there some kind of party going on here? Why is everybody here?” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, after walking down the back steps of Gracie Mansion
He’s a young Latino former mayor with serious policy proposals on all the big issues. But he’s barely polling at 1 percent. What went wrong?
By the time the mayor of New York City arrives at the Williams Chapel AME Church in Orangeburg, South Carolina, for the second official trip of his nascent presidential run, most of the raucous New York press corps is staying home.
