John Ketcham

1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · John Ketcham

   NYC can make more housing available for the poor — if we don’t shun the rich (opens the original)

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   See more of our coverage in your search results. New York needs more housing. Nearly everyone recognizes that, from across the political spectrum. In 2024, the City Council approved City of Yes, Gotham’s most significant zoning-code overhaul since 1961. And last November, voters approved — by comfortable margins — three City Charter amendments that make it faster and easier to build housing. That’s why the council made the right call Thursday to confirm John Mangin to chair the Board of St

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2. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · John Ketcham

   Mamdani’s taking over NY institutions to push his agenda —testing the law’s limits (opens the original)

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   See more of our coverage in your search results. Mayor Zohran Mamdani may be an ideologue, but he’s also what Niccolò Machiavelli deemed “a sensible man”: One who will “will base his power on what he controls.” And he’s using his time in office to exert greater control over city institutions — sometimes even testing the bounds of the law — to build a political machine that can persist beyond his tenure. As the recent congressional primaries revealed, the mayor’s grip on the city cha

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3. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · John Ketcham

   NYCHA’s $465,000-a-year plumber is just a taste of its massive dysfunction (opens the original)

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   See more of our coverage in your search results. Want to make banker money without stepping foot on Wall Street? Try plumbing for the New York City Housing Authority. From July 2024 through June 2025, NYCHA plumber supervisor Jakub Markowski earned $465,000, including $332,000 for nearly 2,600 hours in overtime — more than the mayor and City Council speaker make combined. While he collected these checks, Markowski also operated two private plumbing companies. The Buildings Department is now inve

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4. Article · Jul 5, 2026 · John Ketcham

   Mamdani fancies himself a financial whiz — he’s in for a NYC budget surprise come January (opens the original)

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   See more of our coverage in your search results. On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin reached a record $125.8 billion budget deal for fiscal 2027 that began the following day. The mayor boasted: “Socialists not only understand economics just as well as the capitalists who came before, but . . . we can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles.” Spare us the propaganda, Mr. Mayor. The city budget isn’t in great shape. Lest anyon

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