Nicole Gelinas
New York Post
New York, NY, United States
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With gambling, marijuana, NYC’s new vice economy is set up for failure
New York City is counting on a post-pandemic economic-development strategy that revolves around gambling and weed — but can the city survive on vice? → Read More
Manhattan Institute Scholars React to 2022 Midterm Outcomes
Charles Fain Lehman reacts to the role public safety played in key races: "Though many results are still outstanding, the balance of last night's results suggest that voters' persistent fears about public safety—they routinely ranked it as a top concern in polls—played a significant role in... → Read More
MI Responds: Scholars From the Manhattan Institute React to Governor Kathy Hochul’s $216 Billion Budget Plan
Scholars from the Manhattan Institute react to Governor Kathy Hochul’s $216 billion budget plan Transit: It is notable that Governor Hochul appears to be proceeding on the assumption that she'll formally approve congestion pricing at the end of this year. In that light, the governor... → Read More
MI Responds: Scholars From the Manhattan Institute React to Governor Kathy Hochul’s $216 Billion Budget Plan
Scholars from the Manhattan Institute react to Governor Kathy Hochul’s $216 billion budget plan Transit: It is notable that Governor Hochul appears to be proceeding on the assumption that she'll formally approve congestion pricing at the end of this year. In that light, the governor... → Read More
Soaring inflation means yet more troubles for NYC’s next mayor
Add one more headache to the next mayor’s growing pile: inflation. → Read More
MTA leadership should be on the same page
The end of Albany’s legislative season on June 10 only heightened the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s state of suspended animation. → Read More
Data Proves It: Pandemic Is No Excuse for NYC’s Rising Tide of Violent Crime
Last Thursday into Friday, four New Yorkers were shot dead, in four incidents, within 24 hours — followed on Saturday by a triple shooting in Times Square. This is 1980s-level crime, and the city is getting used to it with alarming alacrity. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s answer to this is... → Read More
Safety, Comfort: How NYC’s Next Mayor Can Lure Back Commuters Who Left
Thanks to COVID, most New Yorkers are no longer captive to a five-day-a-week commute. How does the next mayor lure people back without choking the city on traffic?The pandemic altered Gothamites’ transportation habits on a scale not seen since the subway opened in 1904, or since the... → Read More
A Transportation Plan for NYC’s Next Mayor
The Covid-19 pandemic last year altered New Yorkers’ normal transportation habits on a scale not seen since the subway first opened in 1904—ushering in an era of underground mass transit—or since the Triborough Bridge opened in 1936, and the city entered the automobile age.A year into the... → Read More
De Blasio’s latest budget barely rises to level of whistling past graveyard
For all of de Blasio’s gushing over “very good news” concerning the city’s $95.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year, the real news came during the question-and-answer session. → Read More
MI Responds: New York’s 2021 State of the State Address
Manhattan Institute fellows react to Governor Cuomo's four-part State of the State speech → Read More
Local COVID restrictions have turned states into the laboratories of inconsistent chaos
Every city seems to have wildly different rules on thresholds for indoor and outdoor dining, shopping, museums, in-person gatherings, and schools. → Read More
New York City's grim COVID outlook is looking even more miserable because of its terrible leadership
The pandemic shutdown had a horrific impact on New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership has only made things worse. → Read More
Paycheck Protection Program wasn’t perfect, but still a huge jobs saver
The Paycheck Protection Program was expensive, complicated, unfair and graft-prone. But it worked. → Read More
Bill de Blasio's rules for the Rock Center tree make absolutely no sense
Blas is bent on ruining Midtown’s Christmas. Did you really think 2020 couldn’t get dumber? On Wednesday, Rockefeller Center will light its Christmas... → Read More
It's past time the tax code faced the new home-office reality
Congress should update the tax code to reflect this new reality: The American home is no longer just a place for family and leisure, but also a place of business. → Read More
Soaring subway disorder is another knife at NYC’s throat
If Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials won’t let the NYPD do its job, the MTA will have to do it, unfreezing its hiring to secure the system. → Read More
MI Responds: New York City’s FY 2021 Budget
Manhattan Institute scholars on why Mayor de Blasio's budget deal avoids tough decisions and the pretense of planning. → Read More
Why the Fireworks Surge Is Truly a Scourge
New York is compressing all of the upheavals of the 1970s — job loss, population exodus, looting, rising crime, existential questions of what the city is even for — into a disorienting few months. Add another one: deteriorating quality of life. How the city addresses its fireworks scourage... → Read More
NYC Must Focus on Filling Empty Buildings Again — Not Profits or Tax Revenues
New York City’s government and real-estate industry have a common purpose: to keep real-estate prices high. But what Gotham needs right now may be the opposite: lower prices. → Read More