Nicole Gelinas

An excerpt from the new book “Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car”

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive into core Manhattan is so epic, you must wonder: Is she this bad at politics, or is she doing it on purpose?

If congestion pricing, now less than two months away from its new January start date, ever dies for good, it will have been tortured to death — by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive into core Manhattan is so epic, you must wonder: Is she this bad at politics, or is she doing it on purpose? Last Thursday, five months after her June “pause” on congestion pricing weeks before it was set to start, She now wants to start collecting cash from drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street on Jan. 5. She’s made superficially good changes:

New NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch can serve the mayor and the city well, if she uses her independence to level with the public about this fact, and explain the problems and solutions.

The $6.2 price tag for that banana “art” shows how a price can have no relation to value. Justin Sun’s purchase of it is more proof that our we are (collectively) awash in cash.

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The sidewalk murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Thompson’s in the heart of Midtown punctuates nearly five years of rising crime and disorder in New York City.

The acquittal last Monday of former Marine Daniel Penny is a blow to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg: The jury came to the common-sense

An eye-opening heatmap exclusively shared with DailyMail.com shows the shocking scale of apparent drone activity in one New Jersey county as the mystery aircraft continue to shuttle through the skies. The Garden State has been at the epicenter of the recent flurry of flying objects which have baffled experts and concerned local lawmakers - as the central government flounders to provide concrete answers about what's going on. A whopping 964 incidents have been logged in New Jersey since the first sighting on November 19 up until December 13, according to statistics collected by the state's Office of Emergency Management and shared with the New York Post.

A movie about the 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympians has a refreshingly simple — but not simplistic — take: Kidnapping and murdering civilians is bad, and there is no context in which to justify it…