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Think Midtown Feels More Dangerous? You’re not wrong.

Serious assaults in Midtown have more than doubled since 2019.

Oct 23 • Liena Zagare

Fare gates work. Canal Street doesn’t.

And does childcare really cost $20K?

Oct 9 • Liena Zagare

The Mayor's To-Do List Skips the Classroom

On schools, sewer socialism, middle class families, and more.

Sep 25 • Liena Zagare

What We Remember

On 9/11, I was not yet a New Yorker, nor did I know I ever would be.

Sep 11 • Liena Zagare

New York’s Shadow Workforce

On Labor Day, a look at City Hall’s 80,000-person nonprofit workforce — and the political system it helped create.

Sep 4 • Liena Zagare

August Reading: Best of MI, from Basements to Schools

I’m on vacation this week, so I wanted to leave you with some of our stories and recent reports you may have missed: From socialists to education to…

Aug 7 • Liena Zagare

MI in the Times, Mamdani’s Groceries, and New Polling

Welcome to our new subscribers! Inside, our latest work on housing, welfare, and AI in schools.

Jul 31 • Liena Zagare

Penn Station, AI, and the $1.5 Billion Special Education Problem

Inside the Feds’ new blueprint for the city's worst transit bottleneck, who are NYC's 300,000 chronically absent students, and why more spending won’t…

Jul 24 • Liena Zagare

Ideas For Fixing New York City's Schools

More money won't solve the structural issues that need addressing.

Jul 17 • Liena Zagare

Mamdani Delivers Rent Freeze, More Seats for DSA

Mayor Mamdani had a very good June: the Knicks won, his endorsed candidates won the June primaries, and the Rent Guidelines Board this week approved a…

Jun 26 • Liena Zagare

Mamdani’s Machine Will Be Tested Tuesday

Red Rabbits, Workers Deserve More and The Race for 2028.

Jun 19 • Liena Zagare

New York City Has an Opportunity Crisis

Recent data on the city's job market shows a deep mismatch between the jobs the city is creating and the jobs its residents need.

Jun 12 • Liena Zagare

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