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Fiorello La Guardia and the making of modern New York

Books & the Arts / How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City Michael Kazin Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War is the third and final volume of the most ...
The New York Times

Charting the History of New York’s Middle Eastern Community

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...
The New York Times

Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers?

Ms. Phillips-Fein has written extensively about the politics and history of New York and is the author of “Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics.” As Zohran Mamdani ...
Washington Monthly

How New York City Got Safe

New York, 1981: A graffiti-covered subway car before the turnaround. Credit: Jamie Kalikow © As he is sworn in today, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office ...