A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and
Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.
Hoylman supports the campaign to remake
Fifth and Sixth
Avenues into complete streets, backs the MoveNY fair - tolling plan, and has expressed interest in introducing legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to secure cell phone records
after vehicular crashes.