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The City That Never Sleeps Is Dreaming of Something New: New York at a Crossroads

From the corridors of City Hall to the studios of Bushwick, a generation of New Yorkers is reimagining what this city is for — and who it belongs to.

By Jordan Osei · November 5, 2026

The Investigation That Changed Everything: How a Single Document Rewrote the Story of Power in This City

It began with an anonymous envelope and ended with three resignations, two federal inquiries, and a question that no one in New York's power structure has yet been able to answer.

Nathaniel Voss, Investigative Correspondent · October 31, 2026

The most consequential piece of journalism we have published in five years.

Breaking

The City That Never Sleeps Is Dreaming of Something New: New York at a Crossroads

From City Hall to the studios of Bushwick, a generation of New Yorkers is reimagining what this city is for — and who it belongs to.

Jordan Osei · November 5, 2026

Investigations

The Investigation That Changed Everything: How a Single Document Rewrote the Story of Power in This City

It began with an anonymous envelope and ended with three resignations, two federal inquiries, and a question no one has yet answered.

Nathaniel Voss · October 31, 2026

Analysis

The Housing Crisis Is Not a Crisis of Supply. It Is a Crisis of Will.

Every serious analyst agrees on the diagnosis. The disagreement — the real, consequential disagreement — is about who is allowed to say so out loud.

Celeste Marchetti · October 29, 2026

Culture

The Return of the Public Intellectual: Why New York's Thinkers Are Leaving the Academy

A generation of scholars is abandoning tenure for newsletters, podcasts, and the kind of influence that peer review cannot confer.

Simone Adeyemi · October 27, 2026

Breaking

The Transit Reckoning: What the MTA's Next Decade Will Actually Look Like

The plans are ambitious. The funding is uncertain. The politics are, as always, impossible. A clear-eyed assessment of what is coming.

Jordan Osei · October 25, 2026

Analysis

The Inequality Map: How New York Became Two Cities Sharing One Zip Code

The data has been available for years. What has been missing is the willingness to read it honestly and say plainly what it means.

Nathaniel Voss · October 23, 2026

Investigations

The Contracts That No One Was Supposed to See

A year-long investigation into how the city's most lucrative public contracts are awarded — and to whom — reveals a pattern that is difficult to explain and impossible to defend.

Celeste Marchetti · October 21, 2026

Culture

The Restaurant as Argument: How New York's Dining Scene Became the City's Most Contested Cultural Space

A table at the right restaurant was always a statement. Now it is a position. A dispatch from the front lines of the city's most delicious culture war.

Simone Adeyemi · October 19, 2026

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