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East Side Resiliency Plan Faces Key Hearing
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Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.
Max & Murphy: Borough Jails Plan Enters Key Phase
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‘The plan that is in progress right now is the right plan, it’s one that is viable, it’s moving.’
Related: Opinion: The Unending Urgency of Closing Rikers
Max & Murphy: Leading Advocate for Transit Sizes Up MTA’s Progress
John Raskin talked about the big problem that unites all of the other challenges facing the subway, buses and commuter trains: The lack of accountability in the transit system as it now exists.
Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols
This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
Longtime Homeless-led Organization Says it May Shut Doors
Picture the Homeless, a homeless-led grassroots organization is raising money to keep the doors open.
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Opinion: Avoid Another Amazon by Learning from Essex Crossing
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‘Treating the Amazon HQ2 project as a proxy for all new development was an error in judgement.’
Age Justice
10 NYCHA Senior Centers to Remain Open
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Funding was restored to 10 senior centers at NYCHA buildings that were slated to close due to budget cuts.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Needs to Think Bigger—and Better—About Improving Infrastructure
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‘Infrastructure is a public good. And land value—commonly-owned, socially-created wealth—can be tapped to keep this public good alive and well.’
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Critical Voice for Ethnic Community Press Re-launches at City Limits News
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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and City Limits Announce Plan to Preserve ‘Voices of New York’
GOVERNMENT
ICE Raids Anticipated: Know Your Rights (Conoce Tus Derechos)
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Posters and information from legal advocates ahead of an anticipated wave of immigration enforcement actions.
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Councilmember & Taxi Drivers Call for Bailout, Citing City’s Role in Crisis
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Brokers and lenders convinced drivers to take out risky loans they ultimately could not afford. But drivers and their allies say the city, too, profited from the industry’s downfall.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Housing Update: New Worries About Children in Lead-Tainted Apartments
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The housing headlines you missed this week
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building
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The building at 299 Troutman Street has eight units with only four units being utilized. The other four units sit burned and empty on the third and fourth floors after a 2008 fire.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Decarcerating NYC Starts With Building Smaller Jails
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‘There are advocates who are staunchly opposed to building new facilities. While these advocates and I share many of the same values and goals, there is only one realistic and truly just pathway forward — the building of borough-based jails.’
Art at the Limits
What Bushwick’s Children Think About Trump’s Wall
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Among those who did come to the Brooklyn neighborhood from overseas, there are feelings of deep vulnerability.
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Max & Murphy: The Queens DA Race and the State of Police Reform
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The weekly WBAI public affairs show gets an update on the recount in the Queens Democratic district attorney primary and checks in with a top advocacy group about where criminal-justice reform stands.