New York’s Medical-Only Vaccine Rule Creates a Backstop Other States Lost—But It’s Under Constant Pressure
New York’s refusal to grant religious or philosophical exemptions to school vaccine requirements stands as a rare bulwark against the immunization erosion spreading across the country, but the policy’s durability…
Why the MTA’s Substation Crisis Will Keep Stranding Your Commute
The MTA’s electrical substations are not receiving the preventive care they need, and the consequences will continue rippling through the five boroughs until the agency fundamentally changes how it budgets…
Jaxson Dart Has Drip
The Profile · Big Blue’s Young Gun Jaxson Dart Has the Drip and the Arm. Year 2 Is About to Tell Us How Far Both Go. He took the Giants…
The Real Question About New York’s School Bus Crisis: Why Aren’t Contractors Being Held to Their Contracts?
New York City’s school bus operators are warning of a potential shortage days before classes resume, but the actual mechanics of how this shortage develops—and why the city hasn’t already…
The Citi Bike Friction Device Won’t Fix Gentrification—But It Exposes Something Real About How We Ignore It
An artist in Brooklyn has built a mechanical device that increases pedaling resistance on Citi Bikes when they enter neighborhoods experiencing rapid rent increases, forcing riders to literally feel the…
NYC For-Hire Vehicle Fleet: Who Actually Owns the Cars
Of the roughly 104,500 active for-hire vehicles licensed to operate in New York City right now, more than three out of every four are registered to a single company. Based…
The OMNY Card Outage Exposes a Bigger MTA Problem: Dependency on a Single System
The MTA’s physical OMNY card system crashed this week, leaving commuters unable to reload fares at thousands of vending machines across the five boroughs—a failure that reveals how thoroughly the…
NYC Eviction Data: Where Evictions Are Actually Happening
Nearly 19,000 evictions were actually carried out across New York City in the past year, and the Bronx alone accounted for close to a third of them — a far…
How NYC School Zoning Actually Determines Where Your Child Goes
Two apartments on the same block can zone into completely different elementary schools, and the line drawn between them isn’t always where families assume it is. NYC’s school zoning system…
Caleb “Iceman” Williams and His Smooth Post-Rookie Recovery
The Profile · Chicago’s Cold-Blooded Answer They Called His Rookie Year a Bust. One Season Later, They’re Calling Him the Iceman. Seven game-winning drives. A franchise passing record. A trademark…