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Nicole Gelinas

Nicole Gelinas

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Hochul, Adams offer Trump a bogus olive branch — seeking not peace, just cash

Top New York Democrats cozied up to president-elect Donald Trump to get his help with their big-budget needs — but a reddening Empire State voted...

11.11.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

NYC’s migrant chaos exposed Democrats’ failures — and could cost them the election

When migrants swamped NYC in 2023, voters began to believe that Democrats are incapable of setting and executing responsible immigration policy.

03.11.2024 7

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Daniel Penny needs a subway-riding jury — and he may not get one

Lawyers parse potential jurors by race, age and gender. But in the Daniel Penny trial, the real divide in the jury pool is transit: who takes the...

27.10.2024 5

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

NY Prop 1’s flaws reflect Hochul’s and state Democrats’ failures

Because they're so ideologically confused, state Democrats and Kathy Hochul must hide behind something that’s popular to pass all sorts of other...

20.10.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Why public safety is the key to functioning NYC subways — crime hot spots for over 50 years

We’ve compressed a generation’s worth of killing into four years — and with nine murders on the subway this year, this danger is not abating.

19.10.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Trump’s secret fanbase: NY Democrats crave his win to take heat off their failures

Former President Donald Trump is gaining in swing-state polls — and you can bet one group is secretly pleased: New York’s elected...

13.10.2024 40

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Adams puts taxpayers on the hook for $1.6 billion a year on migrants — maybe through 2029!

Mayor Eric Adams is trying to ensure that one big feature of his mayoralty stays in office, even if he doesn’t: billions of dollars in taxpayer...

11.10.2024 100

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Biden’s forced end to port strike is a bad deal for consumers — and unions, too

Biden strong-armed the ports into a bad deal that in the long run will push up prices — and harm organized labor.

06.10.2024 100

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Hochul to the rescue? Here’s how gov can help NYC as Adams flounders

Gotham needs a strong governor to fill the power vacuum Hizzoner’s scandals have created — and Hochul has powers she can wield to the city’s...

29.09.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

A Great City, Such a Small Mayor

With all its talent, how did the city end up with a mayor accused of being an incessant petty grifter?

27.09.2024 6

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

MTA’s $68.4B capital program is pure fiction —unless Hochul steps up

Unless and until Gov. Hochul becomes a firmer leader, the MTA's massive infrastructure plan will remain unfunded — a lot of ideas, and no way to pay...

22.09.2024 9

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Scandal leaves Eric Adams at risk of irrelevance as NYC’s quality of life declines

This administration doesn’t even appear to grasp the seriousness of its predicament as Eric Adams slides into irrelevance.

15.09.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Adams’ laxity on City Hall corruption could wreck his public-safety agenda

Federal raids at the homes of the mayor's three top public-safety officials imperils Adams’ already-fragile claim to mayoral success.

08.09.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

How the MTA can defeat the bus-fare deadbeats — and reward the rest of us

With just half of riders paying, the only thing that will change people’s minds is if they know a penalty will be swift, certain and actually...

04.09.2024 40

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Hochul’s new plan: congestion pricing for thee, but not for me

Higher “prices” in the form of this new tax aren’t for everyone, of course: Only the private sector must pay.

24.08.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

NY prosecutors should follow UK’s lead and send disruptive protesters to jail

In Britain, prosecutors and judges are applying the law so that the illegal actions of demonstrators of all political stripes have real consequences.

20.08.2024 40

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

The Sweaty, Dangerous Labor of Making the Subways Safer

Opinion Guest Essay Credit... By Gus Aronson Supported by By Nicole Gelinas Ms. Gelinas is a contributing editor for the Manhattan...

14.08.2024 8

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Don’t romanticize Europe’s crowded, tardy, unreliable high-speed rail

One reason high-speed rail “works” in Europe is that its customers will put up with inconvenience and uncertainty that Americans would never...

11.08.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

What’s the real migrant crime rate in NYC? We have no idea

Last Monday, Venezuelan migrant Sandra Serrano was shot and killed outside the Randall’s Island migrant shelter, caught in the crossfire in what...

04.08.2024 80

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Adams’ e-bike boondoggle aids delivery apps but does nothing for public safety

City Hall is rewarding delivery apps' irresponsible corporate behavior by subsidizing it, spending taxpayer money to do what employers should do:...

28.07.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Adams has NYPD playing whack-a-mole as crime drops in subway, rises on the street

New York’s public-safety resources are stretched thin, something Eric Adams has never addressed with a long-term plan.

21.07.2024 3

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

City needs a jailbreak to escape de Blasio’s pricey plan to close Rikers Island

Mayor Adams should scrap de Blasio's flawed program to build “smaller, safer, fairer" borough jails — before it sucks up even more money needed to...

14.07.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

City’s migrant debit-card spending balloons — as no-bid vendor rakes in a fortune

According to the city's no-bid contract, more than $250,000 went in fees to the company providing the cards.

07.07.2024 100

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

NYC’s budget plane on a risky flight path as City Council takes Adams for a ride

Mayor Adams brandished a toy airplane to boast of his $112.4 billion budget agreement with the City Council — but the deal showed he'd had no flight...

30.06.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Adams’ budget quietly installs a permanent ‘migrant crisis’ spending spree

In his budget proposal, the mayor has finally admitted to reality — the migrant “crisis” is here to stay, to the tune of $4.7 billion next year.

23.06.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

How City Hall frittered away $41M on no-bid migrant shelter deal with dodgy DocGo

The secret no-bid contract with the dodgy company is paying $1,100 a day for a single social worker and $65 an hour to security guards.

16.06.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Calm down, the MTA won’t collapse without congestion pricing

Gov. Hochul’s cancellation of congestion pricing weeks before its start has thrown the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority into a crisis...

09.06.2024 5

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

How New York’s Congestion Pricing System Could Have Been Saved

Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Nicole Gelinas Ms. Gelinas is a contributing editor for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. New...

07.06.2024 8

The New York Times

Nicole Gelinas

Broadway sings New York’s blues as crime, costs slow post-COVID comeback

New York’s failure to control crime is slowing its tourism recovery, as new statistics from Broadway’s theater industry show.

02.06.2024 30

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Progressives’ next goal: normalizing sexploitation with legal ‘sex work’

New York will never eradicate prostitution. But that doesn’t mean New York should normalize and encourage it, as it is has done with marijuana.

29.05.2024 30

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Alvin Bragg can help end protest violence — by throwing the book at the perps

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has never been shy about being an activist prosecutor who uses the discretion his office affords him to...

13.05.2024 60

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Even the ‘peaceful’ campus protests are actually violent bullying

Students and other campus protesters are free to engage in nonviolent protests. But that’s not what they’re doing: This isn’t free speech via...

05.05.2024 40

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Adams’ new budget sets NYC (and him) up for big trouble in Summer 2025

By using city tax receipts to fund education and migrant spending, Mayor Adams' new budget is increasing the hole he'll have to close in his next...

29.04.2024 30

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

A Democrat’s last-minute maneuvering shows just how dysfunctional Albany is

New York has a $237 billion state budget, three weeks late. Lawmakers added $4 billion in spending above the $233 billion Gov. Hochul proposed in...

22.04.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Adams’ half-baked LockerNYC program gives for-profit companies taxpayer resources

The mayor Wednesday channeled a “universal concern” of New Yorkers: “When our packages are dropped off” at our houses, “they are taken. You...

14.04.2024 6

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

As NY lawmakers bust the budget, cash-cow Wall Street is moving to greener pastures

Nobody is asking: Where does the money come from?

08.04.2024 50

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Adams’ debit-cards-for-migrants scheme makes no sense

The Adams administration’s Roosevelt Hotel welcome center on Monday is finally handing out its first debit cards to migrants staying at hotels, to...

01.04.2024 100

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Enough talk, Mr. Mayor — you must act to stop shocking subway crime

Yet again, a commuter walks down the subway steps and is carried up in a body bag.

27.03.2024 80

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Mayor Adams’ administration is gaslighting NYC on violent subway crime

How “rare” is subway crime? It’s so rare, the Times has to keep reminding us so.

25.03.2024 70

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Solution to subway mayhem is simple — don’t send in National Guard, enforce farebeating!

Thursday’s self-defense shooting upon a rush-hour Brooklyn A train is emblematic of everything Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams are doing wrong on subway...

16.03.2024 50

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

NYC’s dangerous transit system is harming kids by putting their rite of ‘passage’ at risk

In today's time in New York City, parents face another headache: How should my growing kid get around town, whether on the transit system, on foot or...

08.03.2024 10

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Viral TikTok highlights the insanity of NYC rent regulations

TikToker Carla Badami just racked up 4 million views for explaining how a rent-stabilized New York City tenant can ask the state government for a rent...

04.03.2024 30

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Flaco’s life and death another example of NYC progressivism gone awry

So Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl is dead — killed in a collision with an Upper West Side building Friday, a year after vandals cut the wires on his...

26.02.2024 50

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Inside Mayor Adams’ migrant debit card boondoggle — no-bid bank gets $50 million, border crossers up to $10,000 each

Mayor Adams' debit-card program for migrants has the potential to become an open-ended, multi-billion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing,...

20.02.2024 1500

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Now it’s free cash: Hochul and Adams’ never-ending migrant-money spigot

Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams have been quietly handing out cash to thousands of migrants for nine months.

12.02.2024 60

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Don’t blame the left: ‘Moderate’ Democrats like Eric Adams are failing on the migrant crisis

Adams turned premier properties on both sides of Midtown into anchors of disorder and, as the Times Square migrant attack on NYPD officers last...

05.02.2024 40

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam’s traffic stunt jeopardizes public safety

We’ll see if the City Council lets a perfectly proper police stop of onetime Central Park Five defendant Yusef Salaam, now a Harlem councilman,...

29.01.2024 60

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

State of the City shows Mayor Adams is big on ideas, short on action

Mayor Eric Adams' State of the City address was big on ideas but he couldn't hide his failure to produce big results since taking office.

25.01.2024 9

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

With chronic absenteeism soaring, educrats still tell students school isn’t that important

As in the rest of the country, after missing 18 months of school starting in March 2020, kids without solid support systems at home got out of the...

22.01.2024 30

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

Governor Hochul’s only idea to solve New York’s budget problem is to spend more

In her presentation of the $232.7 billion state budget for the upcoming 2025 fiscal year, which starts in April, Gov. Hochul channeled St. Augustine.

17.01.2024 20

New York Post

Nicole Gelinas

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