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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: To Deliver for New York’s Working Families, Mayor Adams Needs a Trifecta of Change

Harvey Robins | March 23, 2023

“If Mayor Adams wants to make a positive impact on the city and take his ‘working people’s agenda’ beyond rhetoric, he needs to embrace a trifecta of change that establishes a culture in City Hall centered on the needs of everyday New Yorkers. This means establishing a re-imagined social contract, ending the austerity mindset that has dominated the city’s budget and policymaking, and managing for consequential change.”

Housing and Homelessness

An exterior view of the Apollo Hotel in Harlem

Pressed for Shelter Space, NYC Turns to Notorious Landlords with Ties to Mayor’s Chief of Staff

David Brand | July 18, 2022

Brothers Stuart and Jay Podolsky—long known for profiting off of poorly-maintained housing, and who are recent clients of Adams’ Chief of Staff Frank Carone—are leasing at least three of their hotels to the city for use as shelters for homeless families.

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A sign in a Queens restaurant window urging New Yorkers to take COVID-19 precautions.

Opinion: Mayor Adams, Please Ask NYC to Mask Up

Kate Cunningham | July 15, 2022

“I am deeply concerned that New York City is taking the foot off the brakes at the exact wrong moment.”

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: After Decades Of Rules Benefiting NYC’s Corporate Elites, Let’s Put Public Back In Public Policy

Harvey Robins | June 9, 2022

“Even in this wealthiest of American cities, fiscal austerity is too often the implicit mantra, as core government services remain starvation diets while wealthy institutions fatten themselves. That works well for the very well-off, and not so well for the rest of us.”

Education

You Tell Us: Should Albany Extend Mayoral Control of NYC Schools?

Jeanmarie Evelly | May 9, 2022

Mayor Eric Adams was expected to rally Monday morning to push state lawmakers to renew the policy, which gives City Hall the power to appoint the schools chancellor and most members of the decision-making Panel for Educational Policy. City Limits wants to hear from residents on what they think should be done.

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District Leader, Husband of Brooklyn Dems Boss Lands New Job in Adams Administration

David Brand | March 1, 2022

Edu Hermelyn, a Democratic district leader married to party leader and Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, has been named “Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives” in the city’s Department of Social Services (DSS)—a position tasked with smoothing relations with local elected officials, according to job listings.

Opinion

Opinion: A Focus on ‘Efficiency’ Will Keep Thousands of New Yorkers Needlessly Homeless

Laura Mascuch | February 4, 2022

‘Thousands of units of supportive housing—affordable housing with onsite support services for people experiencing homelessness who face additional barriers to stability—are standing vacant for months while more than 70,000 New Yorkers remain in shelter and on the streets. This is the ultimate inefficiency.’

Opinion

Opinion: NYC Needs a Mayor’s Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Affairs

Anita Gundanna and Vanessa Leung | January 18, 2022

‘AAPI New Yorkers deserve to be heard in the halls of power, and we need a mayor who will recapture our diverse communities’ support and confidence.’

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As First Black Speaker, Adrienne Adams Takes Helm of Majority-Women NYC Council

Jeanmarie Evelly | January 6, 2022

Adams stressed unity in her first speech as City Council’s new leader, saying the legislative body—the most diverse in the city’s history—would prioritize addressing the pandemic, including the recent shortage of tests and booster appointments, as well as public safety, healthcare equity and affordable child care.

Government

New Year, New Mayor: The Eric Adams File

Jeanmarie Evelly and Ese Olumhense | January 3, 2022

It’s official: Eric Adams is now the mayor of New York City. Already, our new mayor has been off to an almost dizzying start, part of a pledge to “Get Stuff Done” in his first 100 days. City Limits has been covering City Hall’s new leader for nearly two decades. Here are some highlights.