De Blasio's latest school retreat sends clear message to parents: Give up on NYC What a disaster: For the second time, New York City has delayed the start of school. This leaves parents like me up a creek. And it cheats kids yet again...

I was pro-lockdown for NYC -- but now there's no excuse for continuing it What are we doing? Living in New York City continues to feel like we’re in the Upside Down. Our COVID-19 positive rates are astonishingly low. Yet attractions, businesses and schools...

Journalists' social-media snark about urban safety is grotesque gaslighting American cities are in trouble. In the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns and rising crime and disorder, residents are fleeing urban areas, particularly New York City. The continuing looting and...

The mayor, DOE and teachers' union are all failing NYC school kids How did New York City, with fewer than 1 percent of positive COVID-19 cases, make such a mess of school opening? Because American cities have largely put schools last. Faced...

Carranza wants to use COVID-19 as an excuse to kill standardized tests “Never waste a good crisis,” city Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said in April. Now, with parents distracted by the chaos of his reopening plan, Carranza and his boss, Mayor Bill...

'Compassion' isn't a fix for homelessness — it's just virtue signaling As Manhattan's Upper West Side continues to struggle with the fallout of hundreds of homeless men shipped into neighborhood hotels, some critics are offering a pat "solution": compassion.

Enough! Time to seriously loosen lockdown rules for restaurants and others Enough. Every day there’s a new story about the death of New York, how we’re so broken, we can never be rebuilt. And every day brings a new crazy piece...

Go all-out to enjoy the rest of the summer — fall’s horrors are coming all too fast I’m an eternal optimist but even I have to admit: Everything is pretty terrible right now. We are three weeks out from Labor Day. Schools aren’t opening in many places....

Sorry: A progressive fascist's threat isn't going to silence me I have security at my home. I am in contact with the NYPD. But my main response to this threat will be telling everyone about it and living fearlessly.