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Nicole Gelinas

Nicole Gelinas

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Why Are Many New York Apartments Empty? Rent Laws.

One in 10 buildings with rent-regulated apartments is losing money.

17.02.2026 150

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

How to Resist a Populist Mayor and a Populist President

Hochul can show how Democrats wary of a mayor-elect’s populist brand of socialism can push back against it.

21.11.2025 8

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

On Driverless Cars, New York Should Remember the Lessons From Uber

The city embraced new technology without much thought to the consequences — and regretted it.

03.09.2025 6

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Don’t Like Mamdani? Do Better.

Even if Mr. Mamdani is as awful as his opponents insist, campaigning against an opponent’s flaws works only if you don’t seem even worse.

01.09.2025 10

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Should Letting Their Child Cross the Street Make Parents Felons?

They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

06.08.2025 30

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

The Pesky Details Intruding on Mamdani’s Grocery Plan

How would — or wouldn’t — it work?

23.07.2025 7

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Candidates’ Shift on Crime Turned the Mayor’s Race Upside Down

With “defund the police” still in New Yorkers’ ears, getting traction in the mayor’s race was complicated.

21.06.2025 5

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Where Trump Might Find Success if He Gets Below the Surface

The future for Penn Station’s commuters and neighbors hinges not on aesthetics but on a wonky idea called through-running.

10.05.2025 3

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Why the Obvious Can Be Game-Changing for Democrats

Andrew Cuomo’s ideas for fighting subway crime plan aren’t new, but that doesn’t matter.

19.03.2025 10

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

A Simple Way to Check Police Corruption? Parking Tickets.

Cracking down on officers’ abuse of placards would signal an end to the culture of impunity that has suffused the department.

10.03.2025 10

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

DC plane crash had one deadly cause: official Washington’s willful blindness

Members of Congress and multiple presidents knew all the risks of Washington's overloaded airspace, poor infrastructure and troubled air-traffic...

02.02.2025 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Trump promised to kill congestion pricing — here’s how he can actually make it happen

President Trump could retroactively revoke the federal government’s approval of the toll — because the Biden administration let the MTA slide on a...

26.01.2025 8

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Hochul’s latest subway safety gimmick isn’t a fix for violence, crime

Kathy Hochul's pledge to put cops on every overnight train — her third enforcement surge in three years — doesn't deal with the system’s real...

22.01.2025 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Adams’ $650M plan for homeless mentally ill holds a mirror to his troubled tenure

On broad policy and plans for NYC, Mayor Eric Adams is often right. It’s just that he consistently bumbles the execution.

12.01.2025 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

New Orleans attack a wake-up call for NYC — get serious about vehicle terror

We’re nearly a decade into the age of Islamist terror via motor vehicle, beginning with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice, France, that...

06.01.2025 4

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Hochul’s subway-safety claim a cruel joke — as violence hit deadly high in 2024

If progressives don’t want people acting in self-defense or defending others on the subway, then the state has to keep us safe — but Gov....

29.12.2024 9

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

‘September 5’ film on 1972 Munich Olympics captures the truth about terrorism

It’s not cozy Christmas fare, but if you want to see a movie that gets the past half-century of Palestinian terror right, go to a movie theater and...

22.12.2024 5

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Alvin Bragg’s bizarre antics told Daniel Penny jury the trial was just a sham

The acquittal last Monday of Marine veteran Daniel Penny is a blow to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg: The jury came to the common-sense...

16.12.2024 5

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas