You never know what lies around the corner. Case in point: Zohran Mamdani, an obscure New York State Assembly member who had kept a low profile until very recently, pulled off a resounding and ...

In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, not far from where I live. The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the ...

One can see this constituency as economic parasites on Manhattan's wealth, though they prefer to see themselves as cultural ...