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.
Instead, the 2018 Democratic Party State Convention began with a PowerPoint address. Followed by another.
In Suffolk County, N.Y., where the Hamptons collide with MS-13, the president feels like a local
what was at first shaping up into an all-out political brawl is quickly becoming a more predictable political rac
“At some point, this just becomes real petty shit,”
Eric Schneiderman was never the most likely attorney general for New York
“There is just a lot of anxiety right now,” said one newsroom staffer, one of more than a half-dozen interviewed for this story. “People don’t know who is going to be signing their paychecks in 90 days or even if they will have jobs. We are all just kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
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.
A new show at the New York Historical Society is less about two men who barely knew each other, than it is the story of the civil rights movement in America.
Music geekdom is a terrible affliction. You have to mostly suffer in private, since who among your friends and loved ones could ever understand that the original Miles Davis Quintet isn’t jazz so much as pure gold distilled into the form of sound, or that the Chicago post-rock scene in the late 1990s rivaled the grunge scene in Seattle in the early ’90s for its brilliance and depth or that no, you can’t go out tonight, you have to go home and listen to the first Faces album on repeat.
There is something about staring out at the colossus of New York, or walking among its teeming multitudes, that inspires even the most amateur urban planner to envision ripping the whole thing apart and starting over.
The New York senator has made sexual assault the focus of her political career. Now, the world has caught up with her.
He is, and probably by a lot, the most famous practicing lawyer in America.
On Tuesday, Bill de Blasio will crush his opponents, become the first Democrat to win reelection as mayor of New York City since 1985, and deliver a grievous blow to Donald Trump and his odious agenda for America.
At least that is how de Blasio is selling it
Herb London used to be a fringey, failed conservative candidate in New York. Now he’s a fringey, successful guru who’s helping to shape U.S. foreign policy in the Trump era.
Cy Vance’s glide path to reelection as Manhattan district attorney has hit a speed bump.
The Vietnam War remains the eternal American scar. A New York Historical Society exhibition combines the political and personal to build an affecting portrait of the conflict.
A Wisconsin ironworker is the Democratic Party’s new star. Does he have anything to offer besides his image?
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?
