Health and Environment

Still No Deal Between UnitedHealthcare and Major Bronx Hospital

The impasse between UnitedHealthcare and Montefiore Health System continues, as both sides refused to agree to new terms.

By Liz Donovan

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: As Times Square Makes a Comeback, It’s Time to Help Those Still Struggling

By Lauren Curatolo, Tom Harris, Brenda Rosen and Ashwin Vasan

2021 City Council Races

Brooks-Powers Looks to Defend New Council Seat in Southeast Queens

By David Brand

2021 election

Opinion: Shaun Donovan Praises Atlantic Yards, But It’s No Model Housing Partnership

By Norman Oder

News

Election 2021

Four Takeaways From NYC’s Democratic Comptroller Debate

Although overall more tame than the most recent Democratic and Republican debates for mayor, Wednesday’s event was not without fireworks. Within the first few minutes, Caruso-Cabrera, who ran for Congress against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2020, attacked Council Speaker Corey Johnson for New York City’s swelling budget.
By Ese Olumhense
Health and Environment

Vehicle Pollution Caused an Estimated 2,000 New Yorkers’ Deaths in One Year: Study

42 percent of those estimated deaths were linked to vehicle pollution from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The findings support an argument for interstate vehicle emissions policies, researchers explained.
By Liz Donovan
2021 Mayoral Race

Eric Adams Offers Tour of Brooklyn Brownstone as Proof He Lives in NYC

With less than two weeks to go before Primary Day, the mayoral hopeful — who leads the large field in recent polls — is facing questions raised by reporters who have examined his financial records, his voting addresses and his late-night comings and goings.
By David Brand
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC’s Recovery Hinges on How We Treat Our Children. Our Next Mayor Must Focus on Their Future.

'Unless New York’s next mayor steps up to address the barrage of crises facing New York’s children, an already untenable situation is on track to become much, much worse.'
By Jennifer March
NYC Council

Advocates Urge NYC to Ban Criminal Background Checks for Apartment Applicants

The Fair Chance for Housing Act would bar landlords and brokers from conducting criminal background checks on prospective tenants, a barrier to housing for the formerly incarcerated and their families.
By David Brand

Mapping the Future

How the NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Housing Platforms Stack Up

‘If NYC’s leadership can commit to ending traffic deaths—not just to the tools they’ll use to achieve it but to the actual goal—then they should be able to do the same on the housing issues that shape our lives,’ housing advocates ANHD said in their analysis of the candidates’ written policies.
Will New York Make Good on Pledge to Convert Hotels into Affordable Homes?

The Assembly's Housing Committee is scheduled to vote on a measure Tuesday morning that would unlock $100 million in state funds to purchase unused hotels and convert them into affordable housing, what advocates say would serve as a template for future commercial-to-residential conversions.
Opinion: Use NYC’s Public Pension Funds to Supercharge Affordable Housing Production and Preservation

'The next mayor and comptroller can speed New York City’s recovery by working with public employee pension funds to increase investment in affordable housing, as they have in response to previous economic distress.’
Three Gowanus Rezoning Viewpoints Take Stage at Marathon Public Hearing

Reluctant supporters say the 82-block upzoning proposal is flawed, but will nonetheless create thousands of below-market rate apartments. Others are demanding the plan includes funding for nearby NYCHA demands, while a third group of critics is against the rezoning altogether.
Carlina Rivera to Face Sole Challenger for Lower Manhattan Seat

Because only two candidates are on the ballot for the June 22 primary election, voters in the district — which includes the Lower East Side, Kips Bay, and Murray Hill — will not be electing their next Council member using the city’s new ranked choice voting system.

Podcasts

► Decorative play icon links to post: Madres con bebés nacidos en Estados Unidos siguen siendo expulsadas a México
Madres con bebés nacidos en Estados Unidos siguen siendo expulsadas a México

El último caso se presentó hace dos semanas y según la organización Al Otro Lado, han tenido 12 casos de madres con bebés nacidos en Estados Unidos que han sido deportadas a México. Ocho de estos casos ocurrieron durante la administración de Donald Trump y cuatro durante la administración de Joe Biden.
By Daniel Parra
► Decorative play icon links to post: ¿Cuáles son las alternativas para aprobar alguna reforma migratoria?
¿Cuáles son las alternativas para aprobar alguna reforma migratoria?

Conversamos sobre las alternativas que existen con el presidente del Caucus hispano, Raul Ruiz, representante a la cámara de del distrito 36 de California, sobre las perspectivas que cada uno de los proyectos ley sobre inmigración tiene.
By Daniel Parra
► Decorative play icon links to post: Will NYC’s Changing Demographics Shape the 2021 Mayoral Race?
Will NYC’s Changing Demographics Shape the 2021 Mayoral Race?

It's not just a question of who's here and which candidate they favor, but whether they can and will vote.
By Jarrett Murphy

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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Vehicle Pollution Caused an Estimated 2,000 New Yorkers’ Deaths in One Year: Study

42 percent of those estimated deaths were linked to vehicle pollution from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The findings support an argument for interstate vehicle emissions policies, researchers explained.
Gowanus Rezoning Critics Highlight Impact of Climate on Future Flooding, As Public Review Moves Forward

With public review underway on the controversial land use application, plan opponents tapped a team of climate experts to poke holes in the city’s environmental assurances during a virtual meeting Tuesday. The city has pushed back on their claims, calling them an attempt to undermine an environmentally conscious development framework.
Opinion: Why Physicians and Public Health Leaders Should Support ‘Capping’ the Cross Bronx Expressway

Issues of public health, infrastructure and the environment are inseparable from one another. The Bronx has long been victimized by infrastructure projects that benefit the rich at the expense of marginalized communities, and the Cross Bronx Expressway is the quintessential example.’

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.
Max & Murphy on the Issues: Aging

A video primer on the challenges and opportunities that New York City's growing 65+ population will deliver, and the questions candidates should answer about it.

The Ride

Opinion: NYC’s Equitable, Low-Carbon Future Requires Subsidies for Micromobility

‘Micromobility has proven its value as an affordable, efficient, and equitable transport option and should play a prominent role as our cities reopen and residents head back to work.’
Trains, Plans & Automobiles: Transportation Issues in the 2021 Campaign

From subways and buses to bikes and ferries, the people who win this year's elections for mayor and other city offices will not only shape how New Yorkers get around, but also how public space and taxpayer money gets used.
City Needs More Bicycle Parking to Meet Surge in New Pandemic Riders, Report Says

There are 1.5 free on-street parking spaces for every car registered in the city, but just one bicycle parking space for every 116 bicycles, according to an analysis by the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.

Investigations

Housing and Development

NYC’s ‘Hollowed Out’ Enforcement Units Struggle to Keep Pace on Housing Discrimination Cases

Source of income discrimination constitutes the most common form of illegal housing bias in NYC. Yet the city has only a handful of attorneys and staffers at the two agencies dedicated to tackling the monumental problem.
By David Brand
nyc mayoral race

Ray McGuire’s Billions in Deals Triggered Thousands of Layoffs

The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Adams Embraces a Term Police Critics Have Targeted

The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

‘He’s a Bit of an Enigma’: What Eric Adams’ Development Record & Housing Plan Tell Us

He's raised big money from real estate, advocated for lots of development, and approved the majority of development deals he's considered—with a few important exceptions.
By Jarrett Murphy
2021 election

Andrew Yang Disrupts the Mayor’s Race, But Some of His Ideas Fall Flat

Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework?
By Jarrett Murphy

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