Errol Louis

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Articles

The New York Governor's Race Just Got a Lot More Interesting

2 days ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado's abrupt announcement that he will challenge Governor Kathy Hochul in next year's Democratic primary defies all the usual rules of political timing and calculation. Normally, politicians wait for a relatively quiet news cycle to announce their campaigns in order to gain maximum public attention.
Charlie Rangel Was a True Harlem Original

1 week ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Rep. Charlie Rangel ate and slept politics, and was always ready to whip up a story from his vast catalogue of insights, anecdotes, alliance, rivalries and little-known deals that reveal how power works in New York and Washington. In nearly all of his accounts, Rangel portrays himself as a plain but street-smart Everyman from Harlem trying to make sense of the world.
A Decade of Failure, Futility, and Violence on Rikers Island

2 weeks ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

The recently announced federal-court takeover of Rikers Island was a long-overdue attempt to remove a stain on the soul of New York that shames all of us. The jail is being placed under the control of a "remediation manager," with all major decision-making taken away from city officials who have squandered one opportunity after another to quell the out-of-control violence in our jails.
New York City Street Vendors Have Been Treated Poorly for 300 Years

3 weeks ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Upon hearing that the City Council is preparing, once again, to fix New York's broken system for regulating street vendors, my first thought was, Here we go again. For literally centuries, creating a fair deal for street sellers has been one of those mysterious New York problems that never changes and somehow never gets fixed. Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council are currently negotiating help for the city's 23,000 street vendors, most of whom are selling goods without legal permission.
Cuomo's Rivals Want to Use One of His Supposed Strengths Against Him

1 month ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

With only seven weeks to go until Primary Day, ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo holds an enviable lead in the race for mayor. His desperate adversaries, looking for some way to compete, are focusing more and more on what is arguably the city's single most important political issue: New York's affordable-housing crisis. The latest Siena College poll shows Cuomo with support from 34 percent of registered Democrats, nearly 20 points ahead of his nearest competitor, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.
What Will It Take to Stop Politicians From Insider Trading?

1 month ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Once upon a time back in 1996, the Center for Public Integrity published a startling exposé, " Fat Cat Hotel," that named dozens of big-money Democratic donors who had spent the night at the White House in exchange for writing big checks to the party and/or the campaign and legal-defense funds of then-President Bill Clinton. It was considered scandalous, and Clinton felt compelled to issue denials to reporters. "I did not have any strangers here.
Why Hochul Is Picking a Fight Over Criminal-Justice Reform

1 month ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Governor Kathy Hochul sometimes reminds me of my first teachers, the mostly Irish nuns from the Dominican Sisters order who ran the Annunciation School on West 131st Street in Harlem in the 1960s. I remember the nuns as happy and kind as they rushed around in their plain black-and-white habits, with an underlying no-nonsense energy rooted in the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience the women had taken.
New Yorkers Deserve a Mayor With Good Character

2 months ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

Not long after a federal ruling dismissed criminal charges against him, a visibly relieved Mayor Eric Adams summoned the press to the entrance of Gracie Mansion where he thanked two people - his $2000-an-hour celebrity lawyer, Alex Spiro, and Jesus Christ - for steering him out of a case that could have sent Adams to prison for decades. The very next day, Adams dropped out of the June primary for mayor, vowing to run as an independent in November against whichever Democrat wins.
Who Will Be Our John Lindsay?

2 months ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

During a raucous city-election season 60 years ago, nearly everybody in New York agreed on two things: The city was going to hell in a handbasket, and something needed to be done about it. "I'm running a campaign that calls for change because change is needed," liberal Republican congressman John Lindsay thundered in a debate against his Democratic opponent, comptroller Abe Beame. "There is one murder in this city every 14 hours, one rape every six hours, one theft every three minutes ...
Columbia University Must Choose Between Courage and Cowardice

2 months ago | nymag.com | Errol Louis

The leaders of America's top universities should have realized long ago that no amount of cowering and capitulation or attempts to hide will save them from the attack being unleashed and orchestrated by the Trump administration. It seems the leaders of these fine institutions do not understand the crude and lawless nature of their opponents or the focused, all-out war on higher education that the White House and its allies have launched.