A thickly layered commuter dressed in snow boots, maroon sweatpants and a long black overcoat covered his face with a big knit scarf as the grimy W train trudged along the tracks toward Herald
Square at 3:03 p.m. on Jan. 15. A horrible stench had overtaken the downtown-bound subway car. The smell of death? In fact, the beleaguered ...

The debate over term limits on last night’s Inside City Hall got so contentious that the guests--Esther Fuchs, Gene Russianoff and Bill de Blasio--had to make a public display of shaking hands at the end. Fuchs, a former Bloomberg adviser and now a professor at Columbia University, emerged as a ferocious, unapologetic proponent of the mayor’s ...