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 […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | The Dominican community in New York City is the largest anywhere in the world outside of the Dominican Republic — we are their home away from home. Dominican New Yorkers contribute to every facet of life across the five boroughs, whether it’s running our small businesses in the Bronx […]
On April 17, 2025, the Federal Rail Administration (FRA) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it would be recasting plans known as the Penn Expansion (the addition of a NJ Transit station south of Penn Station being the preferred route) and Penn Reconstruction (the above ground station) to a project to be led […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | We all want to enjoy a great quality of life in the greatest city in the world — but it’s the everyday things that matter. New Yorkers don’t want to live with excessive noise, illegal parking, homelessness-related issues, outdoor drug use, aggressive panhandling, and all the other issues that […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Our North Star has always been keeping New York City streets, subways, and communities safe. This is a pro-public safety administration, and we know that in order for New York City to be the best place to raise a family, our neighborhoods need to be safe. Since day one, […]