Note : The following letter–reprinted with author Lizette Colón’s permission–was sent on July 10, 2025 to NYS Assemblymember Tony Simone, NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher, and Robert Gottheim (Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s Chief of Staff). Diversions from the original version have been made for the purpose of clarification, and [appear as bracketed text]. I woke up […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Summer in the city has begun, and we want all New Yorkers to enjoy the season in the greatest city in the world. We have so much to offer in terms of activities and outdoor space. But we also want to make sure that everyone is safe wherever they […]
BY ZACHARY RICHNER | This past weekend, a horse named Journalism showed us what a comeback looks like. He was five lengths back, bumped and bruised as he fought through a crowded pack in the Preakness Stakes, one of horse racing’s biggest events. But Journalism didn’t fold, even when he looked to be down and out. […]
BY NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | When we came into office in 2022, illegal smoke shops were popping up all around the city. No matter what community you talked to, no matter what borough you visited, New Yorkers were fed up. Illegal smoke and cannabis shops were cutting the line — hurting hard-earned legal […]
Response from Liam Blank to Eugene Sinigalliano’s A Block 780 Resident Reacts to the FRA’s Recent Takeover at Penn Station (ChelseaCommunityNews.com / Guest Opinion: May 4, 2025) BY LIAM BLANK | As author of 2022’s From Here to There: Regional Rail for Metro New York (published during my tenure at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign) and […]
BY NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS AND UNITED BODEGAS OF AMERICA (UBA) PRESIDENT RADHAMES RODRIGUEZ | Bodegas are on every corner of New York City, there for us at all hours, and the bodegueros who service them become our family. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our city, our bodegas were a lifeline to our […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Last week, I went back to Bayside High School in Queens to deliver the Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget — the Best Budget Ever — in the same place I attended high school. My message was simple: this budget is not some abstract set of numbers; it is a […]
BY EUGENE SINIGALLIANO | I write this piece to express my views to the Federal Rail Administration (FRA) which announced on April 17 that it will now be taking a more “hands on” approach to the Penn Station project and has appointed Amtrak to lead the project and relegated the MTA and NJ Transit (all three herein […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS |. The Adams administration has been committed to public safety from the start, and getting illegal guns off our streets and out of our lives is core to that mission. Since the day I took office, the NYPD has seized more than 21,400 illegal firearms — and last week, I […]
The following Guest Opinion by David Holowka is comprised of written and visual content that first appeared as part of “NYCHA’s Chelsea Gold Mine”–published on April 23, 2025 on the blog ArchiTakes. To access the full piece, click here. Above Image: A proposed rezoning of Chelsea’s public housing sites—Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea Houses—could transform much […]