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  • New York Restricts Workplace Speech and Freedom of Contract

    New York Restricts Workplace Speech and Freedom of Contract0

    New York has just passed legislation that will tighten restrictions on speech in the workplace by defining it as “harassment” even if it is not harassment as the term is defined in federal law. The new definition of harassment is unconstitutionally over-broad, especially as applied to college campuses. The legislation also amends New York State

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  • New York Makes Rent Control More Severe

    New York Makes Rent Control More Severe0

    Leaders of New York’s legislature have decided to tighten rent control in New York City. They also will change the law to make it harder for landlords across the state to get rid of tenants who don’t pay their rent, or violate their leases, if those tenants can’t find similar housing in the “same neighborhood.” Economists expect this legislation

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  • New York Lawmakers Want to Screen Gun Buyers’ Social Media History for Hate Speech

    New York Lawmakers Want to Screen Gun Buyers’ Social Media History for Hate Speech0

    A pair of New York legislators is drafting a bill that would make social media history checks part of the process of purchasing a gun. Under the legislation, gun purchasers would have up to three years of their social media history potentially scrutinized by authorities, New York outlet WCBS NewsRadio reports. The internet search history of prospective gun

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  • New York City’s Students Deserve School Choice

    New York City’s Students Deserve School Choice0

    Heloise Moxey does not want to send her four-year-old son Bentley to the low-performing, South Bronx district schools that he is zoned to attend. “I won’t send him to the local public schools. The scores are horrible,” she said, adding that older son Lamar, 8, is thriving at the Leader’s Institute Charter School in Harlem.

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  • New York City: The Front Line of Minimum Wage Misery

    New York City: The Front Line of Minimum Wage Misery0

    Surprise, surprise: minimum wage hikes are bringing unintended consequences to the Big Apple. They’re especially pronounced on the Upper West Side, where a neighborhood staple recently shuttered its doors due to the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage. At the end of September, Gabriela’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar officially closed after 25 years in business, citing sky-high labor

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  • New York City Ideologues Get Indigestion Over Chick-fil-A

    New York City Ideologues Get Indigestion Over Chick-fil-A0

    America’s fastest-growing food chain has come to New York City. But as Hunter Baker notes in this week’s Acton Commentary, the “company’s success sticks in the craw of some who find it to be an alien presence due to the Christianity of the family who owns the company and their traditional values.” A recent New Yorker piece refers

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