John Raskin

John Raskin, founding executive director of bus and subway riders' advocacy group The Riders Alliance, offers his take on the newly announced reorganization plan.

Now that Gov. Cuomo won the Democratic primary, is #CuomosMTA likely to remain a mess, or would this be the term that the subway finally gets a fix?

Community organizers took it on the chin at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, when vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani berated Barack Obama for his experience as one. John Raskin is a community organizer with Housing Conservation Coordinators, and he ...

John Raskin, director of organizing for Housing Conservation Coordinators, and State Senator Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan, 26th district), discuss the report on the proliferation of apartments being converted to illegal hotel rooms.