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John Gallagher Built a Career for the Moment the Story Gets Difficult
From rebuilding Lower Manhattan to advising leaders in a crisis, Gallagher has spent nearly three decades working where public decisions meet public judgment. In 2026, that long apprenticeship put him in Mercury's top job.
Todd Aydelotte Runs New York's History - Then Gives Technology a Story
By day, Todd Aydelotte turns complicated technology into a clear argument. After hours, he turns archives into ultramarathons - following Tesla, Poe, Whitman and New York itself, one address at a time.
Casey Neistat Still Wants to Make the Thing
He built a career by treating the city as a set, the deadline as an editing tool and the audience as a collaborator. Now the platform he helped define feels unfamiliar, so Casey Neistat is returning to his oldest advantage: making unmistakably human work.
Anthony Vigilante Built a Modern Business Around a 1927 Brooklyn Name
The Brooklyn operator inherited nearly a century of family history. His real work has been turning that inheritance into a system that can still answer when the boiler quits.
John Dantzler Took a Teenage Beer Mishap All the Way to Manhattan
A confiscated fake ID, an exploding homebrew kit and 250 rejected spaces became a brewery beneath SoHo. Now its finance-minded co-founder is testing what independent craft can build together.
Josh Wiener Learned to Sell the One Thing a Contractor Can't Show You: Trust
He wanted to act. He learned to plaster. Then he built SilverLining by asking architects for a chance - and discovered that the most expensive thing on any job is the promise.
Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Post columnist who has become one of the most-cited voices on how New York moves, pays its bills, and keeps itself safe. A Chartered Financial Analyst turned urban-policy writer, she translates municipal bonds, subway capital plans, and congestion-pricing math into prose ordinary readers can follow. Her 2024 book Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car won the 2025 Gotham Book Prize and reframed the century-long fight over the city's streets as a story with many heroes, not just one Robert Moses villain.