Closing Rikers
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.’
Heat Wave Could Preview What’s in Store for NYC as Climate Changes
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Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.
Related: Opinion: Put Food on the Green New Deal Menu
Opinion: Put Food on the Green New Deal Menu
‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’
Call to Shift NYC Development Away from Areas at Highest Climate Risk
The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.
Housing Update: Landlord Lawsuit Challenges Entire Stabilization System
The housing news you might have missed this week.
buses
Max & Murphy: Leading Advocate for Transit Sizes Up MTA’s Progress
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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.
Albany
Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols
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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.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Longtime Homeless-led Organization Says it May Shut Doors
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Picture the Homeless, a homeless-led grassroots organization is raising money to keep the doors open.
coastal resiliency
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.
amazon
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.
bailout
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