Eric Lach

One humid afternoon in July, José Ramírez-Garofalo drove his large Toyota truck through the lush new hills, valleys, and meadows of Freshkills Park, a twenty-two-hundred-acre green space that the city is constructing on Staten Island.

The Eric Adams era in New York City began with questions about whether the avowedly vegan mayor was ordering the branzino at a midtown Italian

A new wave of excellent spots, such as Santo Taco and Tacos 1986, has transformed the landscape.

Members of Congress went back to their districts for the summer, and they discovered that being at home is just as hard as being in Washington.

The Mayor makes official what has been obvious for some time, and ends his reëlection campaign.

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

In his cynical campaign for mayor, the former New York governor touted the decades he spent in power. That was part of the problem.

His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

Preparing to take office, the Mayor-elect dabbles in performance art at the Museum of the Moving Image.

When the thirty-four-year-old socialist is sworn in as mayor, he will have to navigate ICE raids, intransigent city power players, and twists of fate and nature.