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Sunset Park is Afraid of Industry City’s Expansion, The Rest of Us Should Be Too
Walk through Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood and you’re apt to see activity. In the park itself, which takes up…
Weekly NYC Protest Calendar and Activist Resource Guide
PROTEST GUIDES: Centralized information and updates on BLM and housing protests and actions in NYC. RESOURCE: Community Resources…
Trump’s Law-And-Order Rhetoric Has Violent Consequences In Rural Upstate New York
While New York is a largely blue state, there are pockets of red. Upstate, the Republican party’s election-year “law…
Invest in Long Island’s Communities, Close Riverhead Jail
Over the past decade, Suffolk County’s jails appeared in the media as sites of violence and neglect. If incarceration…
Cracking ConEd’s Grip On Our Energy Supply and Replacing it With Public Power
Eight-hundred and sixty thousand people lost power when Tropical Storm Isaias hit New York City in early August. It…
Activists Visited PBA Head Pat Lynch’s Home to Demand Police Accountability
About 100 Black Lives Matter activists from Bayside, Queens and other anti-racist, abolitionist demonstrators visited the home of Patrick…
Add ICE To The List of Lawless Law Enforcement Agencies We Must Abolish
Protesters recently held a month-long encampment on the sidewalk outside City Hall. Their demands were to defund the NYPD…
Note: This the sixth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Tali…
The Queens state senator decries “completely out of touch” Cuomo, says NY progressive movement weighing possible 2022 primary challenge to Governor 1%.