Crews in North Bergen, New Jersey, have begun assembling two bespoke German-designed tunneling machines—at $25 million a pop—to carve the first new Hudson River train tunnels since 1910, part of the $16 billion Gateway Program. When welded together,…
Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill promises stricter Medicaid rules, so New York officials are busy dreaming up ways to shield residents from potential coverage losses. The state, ever fond of a bureaucratic work-around, argues that nearly 7 million New Yorkers depend on this safety net. If both sides dig in, we might witness the rare spectacle of local ingenuity outpacing federal inventiveness—at least until the next regulation drops.
The Trump administration will break ground on the Northeast Supply Enhancement gas pipeline off New York City’s coast, with Governor Kathy Hochul’s permits clearing a project long stalled by environmental concerns. Officials say the Williams Companies’ pipeline, serving 2.3 million homes, will bolster grid reliability and save $6 billion over 15 years, though “energy dominance” may ruffle more than just seabeds among New York’s climate-minded citizenry.
Over a million New York renters may soon be forced to double as janitors and doormen, as 32BJ SEIU—whose members handle garbage, security, and maintenance in thousands of buildings—will vote Wednesday on whether to strike, walking out as soon as April 21. Given labor’s flair for last-minute deals, we may see more bargaining chips than garbage bags lining city sidewalks yet.
As New York state applauds fresh developments like the 14-unit Homes for Heroes Veterans Apartments in Tappan, we note that permanent supportive housing—a blend of capped rents and voluntary help—remains one of the few empirically successful antidotes to chronic homelessness. Washington’s potential policy pivot threatens to unravel gains just as data keep piling up in PSH’s favour; perhaps the bureaucracy’s love of reinventing the wheel is truly, well, permanent.
New York’s famously porous job market is rather less so these days: according to the Deportation Data Project, arrests of undocumented immigrants tripled in early 2026, with over 1,200 detained, though only about 16% were deported—down from previous years. Authorities now cast a wider net, targeting even first-timers using fake papers. In a city of half a million undocumented hopefuls, the odds are not, as they say, improving.
A ProPublica probe reports that, since Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, immigration authorities have detained parents of over 11,000 American-citizen children—more than 50 kids daily facing parent loss, with many placed in foster care or with strangers, and deportations now outpacing the prior administration by a factor of four. Officials insist families remain united, but Washington seems keener on wordplay than reunions lately.
Drew Warshaw, a candidate for New York state comptroller, contends that your high electricity bill owes less to aged wires or stormy skies and more to the nearly 9.5% profit margin regulators guarantee utility investors—much higher than, say, the state pension fund’s 5.9% target. He proposes pensions bankroll infrastructure directly, lowering costs for all; a plan that could leave our wallets, if not our lights, less shocked.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s bid to redefine “serious injury” and cap damages in New York accident lawsuits has trial lawyers, and their friends in the legislature, crying foul—accusing her of peddling fiction and harming victims. The data-laden governor retorts that these claims are themselves a stretch, promising lower insurance costs in a state where drivers now pay over $4,000 a year. Budget deals, evidently, can be hazardous intersections.
