Erin Durkin is a reporter for POLITICO New York and the co-author of New York Playbook.

Before joining POLITICO, Erin wrote for The Guardian and was a City Hall reporter for the New York Daily News, where she covered the de Blasio and Bloomberg administrations and the City Council. She also reported on urban development and local politics in Brooklyn.

A native of Boston, Erin graduated from Columbia University and lives in Harlem.