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The State of New York

Exploring the most pressing issues of our City

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Exploring the most pressing issues of our City

New York City has always been at the forefront of culture, politics, and arts. After surviving a global pandemic, New York City faces looming budget deficits, concerns about quality of life, and a rapidly shifting economy. So we ask the question: what’s next for New York? The State of New York, part of the Newmark Civic Life Series, convenes conversations around the most pressing issues facing our City right now, giving you a chance to get to know the people making decisions about New York’s future.

Host

  • Seth Pinsky

    Seth Pinsky

    CEO, The 92nd Street Y, New York

    Seth Pinsky is CEO of The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY). At 92NY, Pinsky has developed an action plan for 92NY heading into its 150th anniversary, which includes a comprehensive upgrade of its Manhattan home begun this year.

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    Seth Pinsky

    Seth Pinsky is CEO of The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY). At 92NY, Pinsky has developed an action plan for 92NY heading into its 150th anniversary, which includes a comprehensive upgrade of its Manhattan home begun this year. Since helping to steer 92NY through the COVID pandemic, Pinsky has overseen a major rebranding of the organization, as well as an aggressive move online, which has now attracted a global audience to 92NY’s programming.

    Previously, Pinsky was an EVP at RXR Realty, where he led RXR’s efforts to invest in “emerging opportunities” in the New York region. Earlier, Pinsky oversaw the development of Mayor Bloomberg’s $20 billion plan to protect New York from climate change impacts and, from 2008 to 2013, was President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

    Pinsky started his career as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. He graduated from Columbia College and Harvard Law.

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    Brigid Bergin

    Senior reporter
    WNYC & Gothamist

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    Brigid Bergin

    Brigid Bergin is an award-winning senior reporter on the People and Power desk. She is fiercely committed to telling stories that help people engage and support democracy. In 2022, she hosted a live, ten-week call-in politics show ahead of the midterm elections called The People’s Guide to Power. Brigid’s reporting in 2017 included some of the first coverage of a political newcomer now known as AOC. In 2016, she broke the news of a voter purge in Brooklyn just days before New York’s presidential primary, triggering city, state and federal investigations. Brigid also guest hosts The Brian Lehrer Show and All Of It. She graduated from the University at Albany and the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism.

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    Errol Louis

    Political Anchor,
    Spectrum News NY1

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    Errol Louis

    Errol Louis is the Political Anchor of Spectrum News NY1, where he hosts Inside City Hall, a nightly primetime show about New York City politics.

    As part of the show, he interviews top political and cultural leaders, including an exclusive weekly one-on-one conversation with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Louis has also conducted interviews with ex-mayors David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg; Gov. Andrew Cuomo and ex-governors George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson; dozens of city, state and federal officials, and presidential candidates including John Kasich, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

    Louis has moderated more than two dozen debates between candidates for mayor, public advocate, city and state comptroller, state Attorney General and U.S. Senate. In 2016, he was a questioner in the final presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

    In addition to political leaders, Louis has interviewed iconic cultural figures including filmmaker Ken Burns, activist Gloria Steinem, and authors Robert Caro and Gay Talese.

    Louis was recently ranked #40 on the list of the 100 most powerful people in New York City politics. He is an adjunct professor of Urban Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where he has taught political and investigative reporting to more than 100 graduate students. He is co-editor of Deadline Artists, a two-volume anthology of America’s greatest newspaper columns published in October 2011.

    Prior to joining Spectrum News NY1, Louis was a Daily News opinion journalist from 2004 to 2010, writing a regular column and serving on the paper’s editorial board. He also hosted a weekday talk show on AM1600 WWRL, where he was twice named one of the “Heavy 100” top talk show hosts in America by Talkers Magazine, the bible of the news/talk radio industry. In 2010, he was named the city’s Best Columnist & Radio Show Host by the Village Voice.

    A graduate of New Rochelle High School, Louis attended Harvard College, where he graduated with a B.A. in Government. He also earned an M.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

    Louis lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett, and their son.

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    Nicole Gelinas

    Senior fellow,
    Manhattan Institute

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    Nicole Gelinas

    Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist at the New York Post. She writes on urban economics and finance. Gelinas is a CFA charter holder and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington (2011). Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Before coming to City Journal, she was a business journalist for Thomson Financial, where she covered the international syndicated-loan and private-debt markets. Gelinas holds a B.A. in English literature from Tulane University.

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