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An interview with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is presented. Topics covered include de Blasio's personal approach and focus on economic inequality, his experience of working as a special assistant to former deputy mayor Bill Lynch, and his views with regards to being a movement leader and the mayor of New York City. Mayor de Blasio also talks about the status of progressive movement in New York, the Whiskey Rebellion, and capital spending.

The author looks at press coverage of the tenure of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, offering a critique of an analysis of de Blasio by reporter Noam Scheiber published in the "New York Times" newspaper in January 2015 which he says distorts de Blasio's record in areas including education and police stop-and-frisk practices. Topics include economic progressivism, identity politics, and liberal journalists' efforts to avoid being accused of liberal bias.

The article focuses on columnist David Brooks of the "New York Times" and his comments on the demographics of New York City in 2014. Topics include the number of people living in poverty in New York City in 2014, the number of people living in housing projects, and inequality in the U.S. Information is provided on the salary gap between executives and workers.

The article discusses businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and his media corporation Bloomberg News. Topics include Bloomberg's legacy as Mayor, such as an increase in inequality, housing costs, unused building repair funds, and median income; and a discussion of the corporate culture of Bloomberg News, such as the outlet's policy of never covering itself and decision to censor its coverage of China to protect its Chinese assets.

The author looks at Democratic politician Bill de Blasio, a candidate in the 2013 New York City mayoral race. The author lauds the de Blasio campaign's focus on addressing the rising economic inequality in the city through liberal policy proposals, contrasting him with both current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who he says is socially liberal but conservative on economic issues.

The article focuses on media mogul Rupert Murdoch's relationship with former Republican New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. It states that Giuliani called Murdoch "a very honourable, honest man" in an article concerning News Corp.'s involvement in voice mail hacking in a recent article in the journal "The Economist." It mentions how Giuliani continually pressured cable television provider Time Warner to carry Fox News in the mid-1990's despite having 30 applicants lined up before Fox News.

The author complains about the quality and lack of readership of the "New York Sun," a conservative daily newspaper based in New York City. The author accuses the paper of using underhanded tactics to make sales figures look good. In reality, the author states, no one is reading the newspaper. The author also asks why conservatives would open the paper in such a liberal city. The author notes the efforts of editor-in-chief Seth Lipsky at promotion by condemning other papers in the city.

Presents the author's view on the controversy surrounding remarks made Senate Democratic whip Richard Durbin regarding the American facilities at Guantánamo Bay and the reaction to Durbin's comments by presidential advisor Karl Rove. Review of how Durbin likened Guantánamo Bay facilities to Nazi camps and Stalinist gulags; View that Rove's reaction to Durbin's comparison termed every liberal a traitor; Analysis of a petition circulated by the Web site MoveOn.org mentioned in Rove's speech to New York's Conservative Party; View that American politics has become a game with no rules or referee.

The author raises questions about why some the "New York Times" fired a stringer named Jay Blotcher because he'd been a member of the anti-AIDS advocacy group ACT UP nearly fourteen years ago. The "Times" is making its case not on Blotcher's membership in ACT UP, which really would be McCarthyism, but on his role as a "public spokesperson for an advocacy organization." But Blotcher and his supporters point out that many "Times" staffers have relationships that could "confuse" readers. Dr. Lawrence K. Altman has many such professional associations with various medical establishments, public and private. Bernard Weinraub covers Hollywood for the paper, while his wife is a head honcho at Sony Pictures. These cases do not involve the "appearance" of conflict-of-interest but its essence. [T]he belief of some that Blotcher was singled out not for being gay but for being in ACT UP and Queer Nation continues to divide the paper internally. Even if one accepts the paper's argument that its only crime is a kind of post-Blair hyper-fastidiousness about appearances at the expense of fairness to one of its stringers, the story cannot be allowed to die there.

Provides information on a mural which decorates the entryway of the restaurant Le Cirque on Madison Avenue, New York. Painting of mural by Robert Cenedella; Description of mural; Owners of restaurant; What inspired the painting of the mural; Comments from Cenedella regarding the painting.

The author shares his experiences when he visited the Eldridge Street Synagogue, one of the earliest synagogue buildings erected in the U.S., particularly in New York's Lower East Side, by Eastern European Jews. He notes that there is still a congregation praying at Eldridge Street, but the building itself is now maintained by a foundation that recently completed a $20 million restoration. Being a Jew himself, he stresses that the experience made him felt connected from generation to generation.