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Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST I lead a double life. At home I rebut email and text messages from conservative friends in other states who have been taken in by right-wing propaganda. [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST FRIDAY AFTERNOON of Labor Day weekend, a breaking-news alert in my inbox revealed that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order intended to help small businesses [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Greg David has mellowed since he left the helm of our newsroom a decade ago. During his 23 years as editor, he insisted on expertise not only [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST SOME YEARS AGO Crain's began accepting op-ed submissions and publishing two to four each month. Now we receive that many every day, run as many as we [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Good journalism requires a healthy amount of skepticism. That was obvious to me when I started in this business in 1991, earning $6 an hour converting syrupy [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist A street acrobat recently jumped over six volunteers just outside City Hall. It was an impressive feat of athleticism, no doubt, but the real performance was the [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST There's an old saying in political circles that the most dangerous place to be is between Sen. Charles Schumer and a camera. The truth is, most elected [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist One of my sons, 16, just finished his summer job. As first jobs go, it was rather glamorous: He was a ballperson at the U.S. Open, on [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist The de Blasio administration's push to consolidate the city's carting industry has shifted into high gear. Two agencies released a report showing that designating one company to [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Is Vision Zero working? Are Bill de Blasio's housing goals realistic? u How'd the city collect $10 billion more in taxes without hiking rates? Is the hotel [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Another day, another taxi lawsuit. This time it's buyers of medallions to operate handicapped-accessible taxis who say they were ripped off by the city. Their suit charges [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist and Andrew J. Hawkins Taxis warn of industrywide collapse The conventional wisdom that Mayor Bill de Blasio sought to cap Uber's growth as a favor to the [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST JULY WAS SUPPOSED to be a big month for businesses that generate a lot of food waste: Composting was to be made mandatory for them, albeit with [...]

Byline: Andrew J. Hawkins and Erik Engquist De Blasio, Cuomo: They have issues You'd think Mayor Bill de Blasio would have hypothermia by now, given how much cold water Gov. [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist I took part in a panel discussion recently on discerning spin from truth when politicians speak. I estimated that 90% of what they say is spin. But [...]

Byline: Chris Bragg, Erik Engquist and Andrew J. Hawkins Times Square faces character issue When participants in a Times Square Alliance focus group are asked what bothers them about the [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped by our office six months ago, fielding questions on the record about a range of topics, such as his freshly disbanded Moreland Commission. [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST AND NICHOLAS WELLS THE STORY OF NEW YORK is inarguably one about its people: who they are, where they reside and work, how they live and die. [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist and Chris Bragg Check cashers try lending a hand Customers can do a lot more at check-cashing businesses than turn paper into greenbacks. They can pay utility [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist A decade ago, a friend visiting from Minnesota was taking the subway with me from Manhattan to my lifelong neighborhood of Park Slope. She's an urban planner, [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist The Dennis Walcott exit interview Dennis Walcott has been on newspapers' front pages fewer times in his three years as city schools chancellor than his predecessor, Cathie [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Since control of the city's school system was handed to the mayor in 2003, a bewildering array of statistics has been used to support or oppose the [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST For the dozen years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure, city government has been data-driven like never before. Seemingly every policy is associated with a statistical metric--and often [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Two years ago, Anupam Singhal got a rude awakening when he sat down to do his tax return. He had spent the year working in London and [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Rachel Sterne, 27 Chief digital officer CITY OF NEW YORK GROWING UP in Park Slope and Westchester County, Rachel Sterne and her three siblings got conflicting parental [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Charles Best, 35 Chief executive DONORSCHOOSE.ORG THE FIRST THING a visitor notices at the midtown headquarters of DonorsChoose.org is large rubber balls where office chairs would normally [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist, Daniel Massey and Jeremy Smerd Leader's conduct roils labor group WHILE NATIONALLY, unions have rallied against attacks on their rights, the New York City Central Labor Council [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist and Jeremy Smerd The $20M fight for Cuomo agenda ANDREW CUOMO, who has $4.9 million in his campaign war chest, is raising more money to counter the [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST The passage of the state budget last week elevated some and enervated others across the landscape of New York politics. WINNERS David Paterson: Accounts of his tumultuous [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST EDWARD I. KOCH, the mayor of New York City from 1978 through 1989, recently finished America's Mayor, a biography of one of his predecessors, John Lindsay, by [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST The Downtown Brooklyn partnership, a local development corporation formed by the Bloomberg administration in 2006 to reshape the city's third-largest business district, has run into financial and [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch was in his element as he worked the room last week at the Citizens Budget Commission's annual fundraising gala. At table after table, [...]

Byline: ERIK ENGQUIST Back in november, reports of former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr.'s interest in Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate seat caused nary a ripple. At the time, Mr. Ford was [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist NEW YORK STATE'S BUDGET The Legislature and the governor must close a structural deficit (or, in plain English, stop spending billions more than the state takes in) [...]

Albany postpones the inevitable The state budget saga, now in its third month, has gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. Facing a budget deficit estimated to be between $3.2 [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed two new commissioners to his administration Mondayand ushered one out. Caswell Holloway, chief of staff to Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler, was named the permanent replacement for [...]

Late one August night in 1998, as Charles Schumer was driving back to his hotel after a dozen campaign events in western New York, he spotted a minor league baseball [...]

For once, the pollsters are stumped. They have no idea who will win Tuesday's run-off elections, which will essentially decide the races for city comptroller and public advocate. Turnout will [...]

The mayoral race is getting a little tighter, according to a poll released Monday morning. City Comptroller William Thompson trails Mayor Michael Bloomberg by 11 points, 50% to 39%, in [...]

The wacky ways of the state Senate are resurrecting old grumbles about Gotham being too beholden to Albany. New York City has been waiting for the Legislature to approve nearly [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Jennifer E. Falk 37 Executive director Union Square Partnership When Jennifer Falk was preparing to speak at her bat mitzvah, the cantor wrote her a note: 'Go [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Alexander Felson 37 Ecological design consultant When the related companies proposed a 1,200-unit housing development that would double the size of tiny Tuxedo, N.Y., the marbled salamander [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist The governor is in free fall. The head of the state Senate is a rookie with a razor-thin majority. But one Albany leader is more powerful than [...]

Byline: erik engquist and matthew sollars Councilman takes the toll road Last week, state Sen. Hiram Monserrate became the first legislator in Brooklyn or Queens to openly endorse tolls on [...]

Byline: erik engquist Barack Obama is becoming president on Tuesday, but as far as elected officials and interest groups in New York are concerned, it's as if Santa Claus is [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist and Matthew Sollars How about sharing some of that? Normally, a liberal assemblywoman representing the West Side would have no problem getting people to buy $100 tickets [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist and Matthew Sollars Rep. Anthony Weiner (below) is casting himself as a new, improved version of Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he intensifies his campaign to win the [...]

Byline: Erik Engquist Crowned and then castigated in a frenzied first week as governor, David Paterson must now successfully run a gantlet of difficult decisions in the next fortnight or [...]

Byline: erik engquist In his senior year at Skidmore College, Gene Freidman intervened when two female students were being harassed at a bar. He took a beer bottle to the [...]

Byline: erik engquist As a high school wrestler, Joe Chan endured a grueling regimen of diet and dehydration to stay in his 119-pound class. The agony paid off with a [...]