Opinion

May 17, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

The five striking unions of the LIRR have made their point since walking out on...

FILE - A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen along a public road, Oct. 16, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Use license plate readers for safety

By Deborah Mayo

May 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Technology is reshaping public safety, recovering missing persons, and providing investigators with real time evidence...

A large lithium battery energy storage system operated by Key Capture Energy that can power 15,000 homes for two hours during outages or high demand is shown in Blasdell, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Improving battery storage & affordability

By Jen Hensley

May 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For many New Yorkers, the math of daily life has become difficult. Affordability pressures —...

Helen Keller, 12, is pictured with her teacher Anne Sullivan in 1892 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Let mute New Yorkers speak: Albany must let people with disabilities communicate how they choose

By Lenore Skenazy

May 17, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Judy Chinitz’ son Alex, 32, has non-speaking autism. At age 25 he was in a...

Former New York City Judge Edward Harold King leaves Brooklyn federal court, Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in New York, after making an initial appearance on a charge of wire fraud conspiracy in connection with an alleged real estate investment scam. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)

Edward King shows how everyone failed: Accused ex-Brooklyn judge was promoted by all

May 17, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Arrested by the feds and charged by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joe Nocella with wire fraud...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance (R) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appear on stage together during the Day of Friendship event at MTK Sportpark on April 7, 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

Readers sound off on JD Vance, ‘Shabbat 250’ and the LIRR strike

May 17, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Toronto: The noise surrounding the use of using the 25th Amendment to rid ourselves of...

Author Jonathan Haidt speaks at Project Healthy Minds' World Mental Health Day Festival at Spring Studios on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Greene: NYU graduation speaker strikes out at Yankee Stadium

May 16, 2026 at 2:41 p.m.

The invite to Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business,...

Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News

A new era calls for rethinking Rikers spending

By Jason Rodriguez

May 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Mayor Mamdani has vowed to “make city government the most efficient it can be,” and...

Soccer fans watch France play Belgium in a World Cup semifinal soccer game on a gigantic screen in New York's Times Square on July 10, 2018, in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NYC will be buzzing soccer this summer

By Jeffrey LeFrancois

May 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

We know how special the city feels for Mets and Yankees home openers. We love...

Readers sound off on AI safeguards, springtime bugs and corporatocracy

May 16, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Swarthmore, Pa.: We humans have always been gifted at creating tools more powerful than ourselves....

Albany must vote to limit plastic waste

By Justin Sanchez

May 15, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Most New Yorkers probably don’t know that the trash we throw away in the city...

This Shabbat for the whole United States

By Ari Berman

May 15, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Presidents have often recognized and honored the Jewish community within the broader story of America....

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pictured in the Bronx on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (Ed Reed / Mayoral Photography Office)

Mamdani’s SPEEDy plan to rent affordable units: Housing Connect must be fixed

May 15, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The city’s lottery system for affordable apartments is called Housing Connect, but it too often...

The Unisphere in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park.

Readers sound off on park maintenance, contraceptive shots and Trump in China

May 15, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Corona: I frequently use the facilities at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. I'm sending letters to various...

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Brooklyn Dems are stealing your vote

By Adam Davis

May 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, New Yorkers have watched as red...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche holds a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Debasing the Department of Justice for Trump: Government attorneys are not private lawyers for the president

May 14, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The client of the Department of Justice is USA, not DJT, but Acting Attorney General...

Tents housing displaced Palestinian families are erected between the rubble of homes and businesses destroyed by the Israeli military, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images)

Readers sound off on condemning Israel, Vicki Paladino and Reflecting Pool paint

May 14, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: On the subject of what should be allowed in student commencement speeches, there should...

President Donald Trump speaks at an event on maternal healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House on May 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

S.E. Cupp: The Dems need this redistricting battle

By S.E. Cupp

May 13, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

Over the past six months, Democrats have been more than happy to let President Trump...

China's President Xi Jinping looks on during a signing ceremony together with Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon at the Great Hall of the People on May 12, 2026 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov Pool/Getty Images)

Our China problem isn’t on the agenda

By Ram Charan

May 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

When President Trump lands in Beijing for his summit with President Xi Jinping, cameras will...

Rendering of Gowanus Green. (Marvel Architects / SCAPE Landscape Architects)

We have waited too long for Gowanus Green

By Michelle de la Uz

May 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For nearly two decades, those of us working to bring truly affordable housing to Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani presents his FY27 executive budget at City Hall on Tuesday.

Mamdani’s lessons from his first budget: Logic triumphs over mayor’s initial very bad plans

May 13, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Mayor Mamdani is crowing that for his very first budget he took a $12 billion...

Readers sound off on fire doors, intentional fouling and free speech

May 13, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Brooklyn: Re "After string of deadly fires, FDNY stresses: closing doors saves lives" (May 9):...

Ribbon cutting for the Sunset Park portion of the Brooklyn Greenway.

14 years is too long to build a greenway

By Hunter Armstrong

May 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Last week, Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Dan Goldman (among dozens of others) celebrated the opening...

Facing the paradox of digital trust

By Will Johnson

May 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Caught in a 24/7 news cycle, Americans feel trapped by politics in a digital world....

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference on April 14 at La Marqueta in East Harlem about his administration's planned city-run grocery stores.

Mamdani’s city-run food shops hurt American Dream

By Frank Garcia

May 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

My grandfather came to New York City in 1953 at the height of the “Great...

New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling

Readers sound off on an iconic voice, taxing second homes and voting laws

May 12, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Huntington, L.I.: The poignant and jarring back-page headline on May 5, “The Voice goes quiet,”...

New Yorkers vote on Election Day in 2025. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Balance the mix of faith and politics

By Joshua M. Davidson

May 11, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

If religion expresses our most deeply held ideals, politics is how those values are realized...

(Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

New York can grow & lift everyone with it

By James Katz

May 11, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In New York, we seem to have fallen victim to a superficial choice: grow the...

Smoke rises from the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack on September 14, 2001.

New York City must release the WTC files

May 11, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

This morning in the courtroom of Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice James Clynes, lawyers for...

Readers sound off on Giuliani’s 9/11 claims, synagogue safety and a son’s death

May 11, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Staten Island: Rudy Giuliani is applying for benefits from the World Trade Center Health Program...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is pictured at an event where she made a childcare announcement on Jan. 13, 2026, in Poughkeepsie, New York. (Darren McGee/ Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)

This Mother’s Day, put childcare first

By Adrienne Adams

May 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

When I think about Mother’s Day, I don’t just think about celebration. I think about...

Thinking of mom on Mother’s Day: Being a mother without a mother

By Linda Perillo

May 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

At 28, I became a motherless mother, and although time has marched on, I find...

Christin Emile with his mother, Tarnisha Woolard. (Obtained by Daily News)

On Mother’s Day the NYPD killed my son

By Tarnisha Woolard

May 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In the early morning hours of Mother’s Day 2024, the NYPD killed my only son,...

Thinking of mom on Mother’s Day: The art of a mother’s love

By Colin Fleming

May 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Does anyone love like a mother loves? Love isn’t limited when it’s real. It resists...

President Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden on April 2, 2025.

Trump’s own tariffs will never be legal: U.S. trade court shoots down second set of Trump tariffs

May 10, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Despite taking an oath (twice) to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United...

Readers sound off on a mother’s strength, battery safety and the Kentucky Derby

May 10, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Bloomington, Ind.: My father was an accountant, and my mother was his secretary. My parents...

Knicks fans celebrate against the 76ers at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Friday.

Greene: Knicks sweep would serve Philly right for trying to ban NY fans

May 9, 2026 at 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia far from lived up to its "brotherly love" nickname this weekend with its bush...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally marking his first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Photos by Sonia Hug and Paul Maniaci)

Can Mamdani sustain NYC youth energy?

By Sonia Huq

May 9, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A disco ball scattered light across the walls at the Knockdown Center as DJ Oscar...

Wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) singing its ethereal, flute-like song in the forests of western Massachusetts. (Andrew Spencer / Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Macaulay Library)

Global Big Day for birds for NYC & Central America

By Anna Lello-Smith

May 9, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Deep in Mesoamerica’s largest rainforest stands a bare concrete house with a sweeping view and...

Readers sound off on solar power, high court bias and alternate side parking

May 9, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Beacon, N.Y.: When I read Voicer Tom Mielczarek’s recent question, it resonated with me because...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, center, speaks during a news conference with Cea Weaver, right, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office via AP)

Mamdani’s tenant agenda has limits

By Ines Fahmi

May 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For the past 10 years, Cristal Calderon, a two-decade Brooklynite, has suffered harassment from her...

The Hudson River Tunnel site near W. 30th St. and 11th Ave. in Hudson Yards.

Let’s ensure Gateway funding continues

By Tom Wright

May 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A mid-April court hearing on the release of funding for the Gateway Hudson rail tunnel...

Speaker Julie Menin Rallies with Council Members and Advocates in Support of Fair Fares. (John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit)

Fare-minded: Fair Fares expansion is better policy than free buses

May 8, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Mayor Mamdani's glib campaign goal of abolishing the fares on buses for everyone makes a...

Protestors march across the Brooklyn Bridge holding a sign to "tax the rich" on March 5, 2021 in New York. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Readers sound off on taxing the rich, commencement speeches and Ted Turner

May 8, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: Mayor Mamdani was elected in part for his call to tax the very rich...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani releases the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Preliminary Budget at City Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)

Don’t wait on Albany for revenue options

By Jonathan Bowles

May 7, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The state budget is now more than a month late, and it’s not looking like...

Small businesses account for about 98% of the businesses in New York. Their survival is a central concern in policymaking. (Photos courtesy of Jimena Elmufdi and Su Jin Seo)

NYC small business hurdles remain high

By Jimena Elmufdi

May 7, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Karen Rodríguez sat in her empty shop with rollers on in Soundview, waiting for customers...

This March 28, 2017 image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Help Epstein’s trafficking victims: Albany should pass trafficked survivors bills

May 7, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

A lot of bad ideas come from the Legislature in Albany, but state Sen. Zellnor...

Readers sound off on battery storage, a redder New York and crosswalk rules

May 7, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

White Plains, N.Y.: Re "Battery storage is safe in New York" (op-ed, May 3): Former...

AILEY dancers perform onstage during the Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala on April 15, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Jazz At Lincoln Center)

Education for N.Y.’s creative economy

By Lola W. Brabham

May 6, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

New York’s creative sector is more than cultural expression — it is a defining pillar...

Street vendor carts in Midtown Manhattan. (Yuna Kim)

New street vendors & indebted old ones

By Yuna Kim

May 6, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For years, Carlos Morales’s cart in Jackson Heights has become “working for everyone” — a...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at the National Action Network during a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News)

Solving NYC’s mental health crisis isn’t about blaming the NYPD, it’s about undoing decades of neglect

May 6, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Mayor Mamdani seems to have picked the right person, Ayesha Delany-Brumsey, to run his new...

US Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson applaud as Britain's King Charles III arrives to address a Joint Meeting of Congress in the House Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Readers sound off on King Charles, saving racehorses and John Sterling

May 6, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

South Windsor, Conn.: To Voicer Michael P. Devine, who coyly asked about the Democrats' "No...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rides the subway on his way to City Hall in New York, Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Let New York City run its own subway

By Bradley Tusk

May 5, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In 2002, Albany gave control of New York City’s schools to the mayor. For decades,...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a May Day in Washington Square Park last week. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images)

Mayor Mamdani must put the city EDC to work

By Eric J. Gertler

May 5, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Since his inauguration, Mayor Mamdani has pursued an economic agenda centered on justice and affordability....

Dirty MTA bus (Kali Bomeli and Zoe Millán)

Free fares won’t save NYC’s buses

By Kali Bomeli

May 5, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A man boarded the M116 bus and raised his hand toward the OMNY reader —...

People take part in the reenactment of the Battle of Puebla, which commemorates the clash between Mexican and French troops in 1862, in Mexico City on May 5, 2023.

Readers sound off on the Battle of Puebla, teachers marching and Mets panic

May 5, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Jersey City: Like a lot of people, I had Cinco de Mayo all wrong. For...

Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Monday, May 18, 2026.

Bramhall cartoons for May 2026

By Bill Bramhall

May 18, 2026 at 8:14 a.m.

Take a look at the editorial cartoons from New York Daily News staffer Bill Bramhall...

Students from the class of 2025 attend the NYU commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium on May 15, 2025.

NYU’s pre-recorded commencement talks

By Aileen Favilla

May 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

New York University has a new policy for commencement this month. In pursuit of “more...

Redesign W. Houston St. to work for all

By Samara Karasyk

May 4, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Houston St. is one of Lower Manhattan’s busiest east-west corridors, carrying pedestrians, cyclists and drivers...

Governor Kathy Hochul announces proposals to bring down car insurance rates in New York in January.

Reform N.Y.’s auto insurance: Hochul has the right ideas to lower costs

May 4, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

The New York State budget, due more than a month ago on April 1, is...

Young people sing and chant during a demonstration at the courthouse in Selma, Ala., Feb. 5, 1965, protesting voter registration. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson, File)

Readers sound off on voting rights rollbacks, gawking bystanders and Dolly Parton

May 4, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Kearny, N.J.: The masks are off. The same radical, right-wing Supreme Court that overturned well-established...

Battery storage is safe in New York

By Tom Von Essen

May 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

I ran the FDNY for six years, and before that I spent 26 years in...

The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. (Shutterstock)

Making Grand Army Plaza grand: Bring the arch into Prospect Park

By Jonathan Timm

May 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In 2009, then-NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan put out some traffic cones and beach chairs...

The location of a new city men’s intake center at 8 E. 3rd St. in Manhattan is pictured in this undated image. (Google)

A shelter, yes; an intake center, no

By Niki Donohue

May 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The homeless crisis is one of our city’s biggest challenges, with no easy answers. Those...

Making Grand Army Plaza grand: A lost chance for Columbus Circle

By Lucius Riccio

May 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The mayor has advanced the city Department of Transportation's proposal to change the traffic pattern...

Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Race to the bottom: Supreme Court rewrites the Voting Rights Act

May 3, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Justice Sam Alito and his five colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court say that the...

Readers sound off on the president’s influence, energy rates and pedestrian safety

May 3, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

New Windsor, N.Y.: To Voicer Dave Kalin: You actually believe we can turn off President...

Rob Cekada, newly confirmed ATF director, attends a press conference on April 29, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Greene: Trump admin jumping the gun on weapons control rollback

May 2, 2026 at 2:05 p.m.

A guy with enough firepower to take out a small battalion storms an event, targeting...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a union rally on Park Avenue, in New York, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Override Mamdani’s veto to protect NYC schools

By Andrew Cuomo

May 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner reminds us once again how violent...

Rising healthcare costs harm workers

By Manny Pastreich

May 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Recently, thousands of 32BJ SEIU residential building service workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike...

James Comey and his controversial Instagram post. (Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images; Instagram)

Readers sound off on ‘86,’ a king’s visit and test technology

May 2, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: The other day, I was thinking about the once again trending term "86" after...

Hasan Piker (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Piker’s perfidy has no place in our party

By Alma Hernandez

May 1, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

On Wednesday, Congressmen Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced a bipartisan House resolution condemning the...

NYC homeowners need short-term rentals

By Jamie Smarr

May 1, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Home ownership in New York City has become increasingly out of reach — a consistently...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents patrol Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport on March 24, 2026 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Workers together to pass New York for All

By Sonia Lawrence

May 1, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Today is May Day — International Workers’ Day — a holiday started by immigrant and...

Cellphone video captures a violent arrest inside a Brooklyn liquor store. (Courtesy of Abelee Moran)

Readers sound off on NYPD policy, fixing Rikers and Mets leadership

May 1, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Opelika, Ala.: An alert civilian recorded NYPD Dets. Volkan Maden and Michael Algerio landing punches...

Drivers position their trucks on the loading docks inside the Hunts Point Produce Market on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in the Bronx. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Congress can stop cargo theft in N.Y.

By Chris Spear

April 30, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

From trucks crisscrossing the Bronx to freight trains moving through the Hudson Valley, New York is a...

Trying to frame Comey, again: Seashells indictment is a laughable charge

April 30, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is pleasing Donald Trump by supporting a ridiculous indictment of...

Police respond after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)

Readers sound off on dangerous turns, Melania vs. Kimmel and King Charles

April 30, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Brooklyn: Having read your paper for 30 years, I noticed that with all the pedestrian...

President Donald Trump speaks during a State Visit arrival ceremony with Britain's King Charles III on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

S.E. Cupp: Trump’s petty pursuit of his ‘enemies’

By S.E. Cupp

April 29, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

When the history books write about Donald Trump, they’ll have a lot to say —...

A Department of Correction bus is pictured next to the Rikers Island sign in Queens on Sept. 13, 2021. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

NYC should use our plan & close Rikers

By Jonathan Lippman

April 29, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

For decades, the unfixable Rikers Island has hurt New Yorkers — those inside the massive...

Cheese products in plastic packaging line the cooler at a grocery store in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. People are increasingly breathing, eating and drinking tiny particles of plastic, however, there are simple things people can do at the grocery store if they want to use less plastic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Plastic packaging laws harm small shops

By Francisco Marte

April 29, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Across New York, small grocery stores, bodegas, and neighborhood coffee shops are more than just...

The U.S. Supreme Court as seen on Feb. 20, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Not Trump’s call: Supreme Court must see that Temporary Protected Status is not up to White House whims

April 29, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Haiti these days is in terrible shape, but the Trump administration, so eager to expel...

Readers sound off on N.Y. health reform, street takeovers and the D.C. shooter

April 29, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Katonah, N.Y.: Caring for a loved one on Medicaid is a full-time job. My mother...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with reporters during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Hegseth’s flu reversal risks military’s health

By Arthur Caplan

April 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently announced that the Department of Defense will no longer mandate...

Teaching Tolerance Interactive Mobile Museums for all

Learning tolerance has to start young

By Samantha Hirsch

April 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Across New York, students are already encountering hate. By the time they step onto the...

Servicemen inspect a Ukrainian made FPV fibre optic drone at a military market place at an undisclosed location in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Drone warfare is much closer than we know

By Pat Ryan

April 28, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Starting on June 13, our region will host eight FIFA World Cup matches including the...

The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Readers sound off on birthright citizenship, D.C. gala shooting and stopping speeders

April 28, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: Although skimming about 1,000 online pages of “Mandate for Leadership” (i.e., Project 2025) yields...

President Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on April 25.

Trump acts without having a strategy

By Nick Akerman

April 27, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Donald Trump's Texas redistricting plan failed for the same reasons his war against Iran is...

‘Buffer zone’ needed beyond worship sites

By Elliot Cosgrove

April 27, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The news out of City Hall last week was a half-measure. Two “buffer zone” bills...

All of Penn must be fixed: Station needs passenger areas and train sections redone

April 27, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

There is much well-deserved anticipation surrounding the three bids for rebuilding Penn Station that are...

President Trump speaks in the Oval Office on March 31. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Readers sound off on fixation on Trump, super speeders and ads on the Moon

April 27, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Malverne, L.I.: I was genuinely surprised — and grateful — when I read last Monday’s...

America must take the path of peace

By William E. Lori

April 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In these fragile days of ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran — one marked by...

Hudson Yards cash is the key to Sunnyside

By Peter Peyser

April 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Mamdani administration is reportedly weighing whether to block a financing mechanism for the next...

The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Keep TPS for NYC immigrants: Supreme Court must uphold Temporary Protected Status

By Dr. Alister Martin

April 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

As a proud son (Alister) of a Haitian immigrant and daughter (Faiza) of Pakistani immigrants,...

Out of the way: Legislature must pass Super Speeders bill speedily

April 26, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is the one man in Albany blocking adoption of a bill...

Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas speaks during an event with President Trump in the Oval Office in February. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Readers sound off on environmental turnaround, Gaza restrictions and stripped cars

April 26, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.

Forked River, N.J.: Every day, we're bombarded with high prices, wars and a useless U.S....

Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in a scene from "Michael."

Greene: Critics down on Michael Jackson movie just Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’