New York’s Unemployment Insurance System Is Floundering. Here’s How to Save It.

With economic storm clouds brewing, now’s the time to repair a badly leaky system.

Bruce CoryMarch 26, 2025jan2025-onwards

Not Separating Organic Waste Is About to Cost a Fine. Are New Yorkers Ready?

It’s time to get serious about the success of the nation’s largest organic waste collection program.

Bruce CoryMarch 19, 2025jan2025-onwards

Should New York City RACE To Fill Empty Office Buildings?

City officials want to use tax breaks to lure out-of-state employers to commercial buildings struggling with vacancies.

Bruce CoryMarch 12, 2025jan2025-onwards

A State Tax Refund Is Attractive. But Is It Wise?

We take a hard look at Governor Hochul’s proposed “inflation refund credit.”

Bruce CoryMarch 5, 2025jan2025-onwards

Compost Regenerates NYC’s Economy, Growing Green Jobs for Young People

Composting enriches the soil – and enriches young lives, too.

Bruce CoryFebruary 26, 2025jan2025-onwards

Five Years on, Has the Pandemic Gone Down a Memory Hole?

First-hand recollections from the men and women who faced uncertainty and danger so that the rest of us might live.

Bruce CoryFebruary 19, 2025jan2025-onwards

Tenants Facing Eviction Have a Right to Counsel – But Underfunding Subverts that Protection

Despite a legal right to counsel, over a third of New York City tenants appearing in housing court still don’t have lawyers.

Bruce CoryFebruary 12, 2025jan2025-onwards

Hustlers, Boosters, Zombies And the Wages of Petty Theft

Life in one Rikers Island facility can seem like a citywide shoplifters’ convention.

Bruce CoryFebruary 5, 2025jan2025-onwards

Why Progressive ‘Myths’ Distort Solutions to the Housing Shortage

Emphasizing single-family zoning and protecting tenants’ rights can get in the way of increasing the supply of housing.

Bruce CoryJanuary 29, 2025jan2025-onwards

A Big Deal That’s Not Nearly Big Enough: What the ‘City of Yes’ Will (and Won’t) Do

“A little more housing in every neighborhood” is a start – but only a start.

Bruce CoryJanuary 22, 2025jan2025-onwards

Welcome to Rikers Island’s World of Chaos and Control

The motto: “Care, custody, and control.” Translation: “I don’t care, you’re in custody, I’m in control.”

Bruce CoryJanuary 15, 2025jan2025-onwards

Why Don’t Go Is a Must Read If You’re Seeking a Shot of Hope

Overwhelmed by news accounts of social division and distrust? A new book highlights individual disrupters creating an alternative narrative.

Bruce CoryJanuary 8, 2025jan2025-onwards

The Difference We Make – Together

A year-end message from the executive director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.

Bruce CoryDecember 18, 2024sept2024-onwards

Finding the Truth in Fiction: Great 2024 Works from The New School Community

A Decameron of New York’s Covid lockdown, and other tales of our time.

Bruce CoryDecember 11, 2024sept2024-onwards

Taking the Measure of Our Time: Great 2024 Nonfiction from the New School Community

Titles that capture the moral, philosophical, and political challenges we face.

Bruce CoryDecember 4, 2024sept2024-onwards

Looking for Reform in All the Wrong Places: Why Can’t We Get Home Health Care Right?

Welcome to the latest battle in New York’s long, losing Medicaid wars.

Bruce CoryNovember 27, 2024sept2024-onwards

Who Suffers When Hospitals Close? The Pandemic Offers Some Lessons.

Whatever the outcome for Beth Israel may be, it’s long past time for a fuller public dialogue about the wise and fair allocation of hospital resources across the city and state.

Bruce CoryNovember 20, 2024sept2024-onwards

A Tightening Middle-Class Squeeze – And Other Tales of Post-Pandemic New York

The long pandemic economic slump is behind us – but income inequality is growing, too.

Bruce CoryNovember 13, 2024sept2024-onwards

Lagging Reforms Mean Lingering Hazards in Private Waste Collection

Five years after a landmark local law passed, private waste haulers still put up troubling safety numbers.

Bruce CoryNovember 6, 2024sept2024-onwards

A Sham Process: New Yorkers Deserve Better Than How Charter Changes Got on the Ballot

Voters face choices about how exercises power, and how, that were framed via a rushed and shambolic process.

Bruce CoryOctober 30, 2024sept2024-onwards