Nicole Gelinas
The Archive
A week of war showcased Mayor Eric Adams’ best — and the rest
Last week was a reminder of why voters picked Adams in the first place — and a reminder, too, that no new good choices have emerged since then.
Eric Adams' disastrous Latin tour will only encourage more migrants to come
The mayor has done nothing to address the two reasons migrants are coming: the country’s still-lax border policies and the city’s right to shelter.
'Rare' random violence that progressives dismiss takes yet another life in NYC
Ryan Carson joins Tommy Bailey, Daniel Enriquez, Michelle Go, Charles Moore, Alison Russo and Christina Yuna Lee, just a few victims of last year’s 60 stranger-on-stranger murders.
Another green failure: Global citizens ruin our local park to 'save the planet'
To grasp the fundamental unseriousness of self-styled climate saviors, look to the catastrophic damage the Global Citizen Festival unleashed on Central Park a week and a half ago.
Ending NYC's flood horrors is another reason to roll back migrant spending
Mayor Eric Adams has never laid out his own infrastructure plan, and his failure to impose discipline on the city budget threatens to overwhelm the plan he inherited.
E-cycles are faster, heavier and more deadly: As death toll shows, it's time to end them
Early this month, after more than 10 years of operation, New York’s Citi Bike bicycle-share program marked a grim milestone: the first-ever death of a pedestrian hit by a Citi...
Eric Adams is hiding the cost of the city's migrant boondoggle
To learn why it’s a bad idea for Washington to issue a blank check to Mayor Eric Adams to house an unlimited number of migrants, listen to Thursday’s City Council hearing.
Adams' cuts to NYC services amid migrant crisis is unserious political theater
The only people stuck in this theater are city residents, and the only person who thinks screaming “Fire!” in the theater is going to prevent the fire is Adams.
Yes, blame for migrant flood rests on Biden — but Adams isn't helping himself, or the city
President Biden has failed on immigration, so he’s looking for any reason he can find to blame Mayor Adams for the ensuing mess in New York City.
The rowdy US Open encapsulates everything that's wrong with New York City
This year’s US Open, which ended Sunday, encapsulated everything that has gone wrong with New York in the past four years, from disgust to disorder to disruption.
Work permits won't magically solve NYC's migrant crisis — they'll make it worse
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams finally agreed with each other on how to fix the migrant crisis. The answer, they said last week, is faster work permits from...
New York City’s got it all wrong with its ‘right to shelter’
Mayor Adams must move in state court to end the consent decree. To win, he would have to argue — albeit decades belatedly — that the city, in signing the...
Dear stores and restaurants: Let us pay quickly and leave
Stores and restaurants are asking Congress for relief on high credit-card transaction fees, and they make a good case.
For Biden, telling New York 'Drop dead' is a winning message
Mayor Eric Adams has only one strategy for the migrant crisis that has brought the city’s homeless-shelter population to six figures: wrangle billions from Washington.
Summer Streets is a perfect opportunity to explore New York history
Summer Streets is the only time you’ll get to take in a panorama of Manhattan’s building-scape.
Midtown's chaotic refugee camp proves disorder is Democrats' only migrant 'plan'
If you want to know how Donald J. Trump could once again become President Trump, look at the images that New York is broadcasting to the country about how an...
Chuck Schumer is AWOL on NYC’s ever-growing migrant crisis
Schumer, the Senate majority leader, never has a word to say about the tens of thousands of people sleeping in homeless shelters and, now, on sidewalks.
New Jersey has good reason to sue New York over congestion pricing
Telling neighbors to get lost isn’t good for the state’s post-2020 recovery.
Social-services spending under Mayor Adams soars thanks to the migrant crisis
In the decade since the final Bloomberg-era budget, city spending has soared by 12% above inflation.
Commissioning failure: Adams' appointments aren't making NYC safer
Mayor Eric Adams has blamed the media for New Yorkers' public-safety fears instead of the disastrous tenures of all three of his public-safety commissioners.