That is what will make our city safe.” “Every violent crime is devastating, but scapegoating entire communities is not only misleading, it is unjust, and it is beneath us. So let me be clear.

Big cities are economic powerhouses. New York City by itself generates nearly 5 percent of America’s GDP with only 2.5 percent of the country’s population. But how much of New York’s success is ...

He was more measured on Wednesday, at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, as he and three other big-city mayors took criticism and barbed questions from a panel of hostile Republican ...