Matthew Hennessey

The NYPD has admitted that someone using an IP address registered to the department made edits to the Wikipedia page of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died last year after officers used a chokehold to subdue him

Jacob Meisel, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, is one of a new breed of online entrepreneurs who, armed only with Google, Twitter, and Microsoft Excel, are changing weather forecasting.

Candidate Bill de Blasio promised to ban Central Park’s iconic horse-drawn carriages on his first day as mayor. “I grew up with the romantic notion that this was part of New York City culture,” he said during the 2013 mayoral campaign. “I had not really thought honestly about the ramifications of it.”

Pundits, pollsters, and political parties keep trying to figure out what makes young people tick. Older people usually struggle to understand what motivates younger people, so it should come as no surprise that recent research on the habits and preferences of the so-called millennial generation—Americans between the ages of 18 and 33—has grownups across the country scratching their heads. Both major political parties recognize the urgency in crafting messages that appeal to a group making up nearly 25 percent of the voting-age population. Whoever figures it out first could conceivably dominate American electoral politics.

Mayor Bill de Blasio managed to reach contract agreements recently with New York City’s teachers and the massive public employee union District Council 37 (DC 37). The United Federation of Teachers secured 18 percent raises for its members over the life of the new nine-year contract. The DC 37 agreement included a 10.52 percent wage increase over seven years.