Errol Louis

1 day 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.