As officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development celebrate 35 years of fighting housing discrimination this month, the city’s headquarters for investigating fair housing has lost its funding and closed up shop.
While Mayor Bloomberg touts the importance of business improvement districts for keeping shopping areas clean, the city’s recent property tax hike has turned a group of businesses in Flushing against a proposed district in their community–another tax, they say, could kill their already suffering profits.
By challenging a City Council law meant to give New Yorkers on welfare more education and training opportunities, the mayor is squandering the only time the legislation could be enforced-without costing the city a dime.
The CDC announced a new focus for its HIV prevention strategy that some advocates worry is dangerously close to mandatory testing.
Chief Judge Judith Kaye appointed a commission to study ways to “reaffirm public trust in our judiciary.”
The city’s campaign to build a water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park, despite community opposition, is slowly moving forward.
Pennsylvania has shut down a landfill that takes 10 percent of New York’s garbage.
New York City lost nearly 58,000 jobs last year while the city’s six closest suburbs gained almost 39,000.
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