Affordable Housing

Amid COVID and Fiscal Woes, Mayor’s Housing Plan Enters Stretch Run

Mayor de Blasio’s initiative to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing seems to be on track. But is it on target?

By Sadef Ali Kully

COVID-19

City Council Hears From Immigrants Excluded From COVID Relief

By Fernando Martínez for El Diario

Age Justice

NYC’s Older Adults Find Community in Remote Art Programs

By David Brand

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: The Truth About Homeless Hotels and the Upper West Side

By Robert Mascali

News

elecciones

COVID-19 frena esfuerzos para aumentar la inscripción de votantes

El crecimiento en la lista de votantes está a la mitad del ritmo de 2016.
By Roshan Abraham
Economy

The Good News on NYC Poverty is Old News, Which is Bad News

The city's poverty rate fell in 2019. But the events of 2020 have all but certainly reversed that trend.
By Jarrett Murphy
arrests

New York Courts Accepting Requests to Destroy Marijuana Arrest Records

Arrests for two lower-level weed charges have been expunged and the records sealed, but if you want those records destroyed altogether, there's a form to fill out.
By Jarrett Murphy
Economy

Drop in Undocumented Immigrants Could Get Steeper Amid COVID-19

The number of undocumented New Yorkers has dropped for three straight years. It's a development with consequences for the local economy, some experts say.
By Ana B. Nieto for El Diario
Government

Lo que necesita saber sobre: las elecciones del 3 de noviembre en Nueva York

¿Quién puede votar? ¿Cómo y dónde registrarse para votar y cuáles son los plazos? ¿Cuáles son mis derechos como votante y qué hago si se me impide votar?
By Daniel Parra

Mapping the Future

A Call for Action to Ease Sunset Park’s Housing Crunch

The plan includes new tenant protections, repurposing government-owned land and isolated manufacturing parcels for housing, and a rezoning to generate both market-rate and income-targeted apartments.
What Opponents of the Flushing Waterfront Plan Say

A public hearing on the controversial Queens development proposal took place this week. Fans see a potential to connect isolated areas. Foes fear gentrification.
Sights & Sounds: Marchers Push Assembly Speaker to Cancel Rent

But Carl Heastie says the next move in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the federal government's to make.
Video: The de Blasio Rezonings, Revisited

So far, the city has approved six of the 15 rezonings Mayor de Blasio thought he'd accomplish, with one remaining on the docket. Here's a quick video tour through the communities that have been rezoned.
Tough Questions for Industry City in First Council Hearing on Rezoning Bid

Councilmembers scrutinized the promise of 15,000 to 20,000 jobs, which depends on hiring decisions that Industry City itself will not control.

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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Opinion: By Design and Democracy, NYC Must Move Toward Equitable Waterfronts

'Whether we like it or not, we need to adapt our city to manage the mounting risks that sea-level rise and climate change pose to New York's waterfront communities.'
Opinion: Want to Re-Think New York City? Start with Rikers Island.

'We can indeed come back stronger. But this moment at history requires more: It needs us to be better than our past self. Renewable Rikers is how we improve the soul of our city.'
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'Recent research shows that long-term exposure to particulate-matter air pollution increases the likelihood of severe COVID-19 outcomes. And people of color are disproportionately affected.'

Age Justice

Seniors’ Housing Needs are a Special Challenge

Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.
Aging in New York: City Wrestles with Poverty Among Seniors

Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one in five of them are poor.
NYC’s Older Adults Find Community in Remote Art Programs

Amid the fear and isolation of the pandemic, art discussions, history lectures and even new virtual ukulele lessons stimulate memory and keep older adults connected.

The Ride

Fear of Traffic and Crashes as NYers Skip Subway for Cars and Bikes

Driving, cycling and bus usage have all rebounded somewhat since the first two months of the pandemic, but subway and commuter rail ridership remain low.
Opinion: Why Crack Down on Revel, but not Cars?

'If safe streets are still front and center of the Vision Zero mayor’s mind, why not forward stricter policy and regulatory measures that makes similar demands of automobiles and their manufacturers?'
Opinion: COVID Gives NYC a Chance—and Urgent Reasons—to Redesign its Transit System

'What solutions can we implement now to provide the reliable transit that New York City needs for its recovery—especially its most underserved communities?'

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Economy

Fear of Traffic and Crashes as NYers Skip Subway for Cars and Bikes

Driving, cycling and bus usage have all rebounded somewhat since the first two months of the pandemic, but subway and commuter rail ridership remain low.
By Jeanmarie Evelly
Mapping the Future

No Longer a ‘Cluster Site,’ But Problems Remain for Tenants

Dead rodents, broken lights and missing smoke detectors are among the issues at one property moved out of the controversial housing program.
By David Brand
Coronavirus

Delayed School Start Doesn’t Resolve Worries About Disparities

From school to school and district to district, differing infection rates and resource levels will make for disparate experiences this fall.
By Jeanmarie Evelly
CIty Limits Investigative Internship Program

Even After a COVID-19 Vaccine is Approved, Distribution Will Be Challenging

If and when a vaccine becomes available, legislators and health officials will have to decide how to best distribute it across the city, as well as overcome public skepticism.
By Kate Griem, Lauren Pehlivanian and Arushi Talwar
car theft

NYC’s Rise in Auto Thefts Puzzles Experts

Since the beginning of the year, rates of reported car thefts in New York City have climbed by 60 percent—the biggest increase of any of the seven major felonies tracked by the NYPD
By Holly DeMuth

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Affordable Housing

Amid COVID and Fiscal Woes, Mayor’s Housing Plan Enters Stretch Run

By Sadef Ali Kully

COVID-19

City Council Hears From Immigrants Excluded From COVID Relief

By Fernando Martínez for El Diario

Age Justice

NYC’s Older Adults Find Community in Remote Art Programs

By David Brand

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: The Truth About Homeless Hotels and the Upper West Side

By Robert Mascali

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