No matter what your take is on the public advocate’s signature plan, the attacks on it reveal how much more acceptable it has become to talk about haves and have-nots in the city.
New York is one of only two states that regularly tries 16- and 17-year-olds as adults. Efforts to reform the system have run into opposition.
A Foster has held the 16th district Council seat since 1978. Now term limits are forcing a change, and a crowded field is vying for the opening.
The havens from harassment and violence also serve other communities who aren’t comfortable asking the police for help, organizers say.
Incumbent Sara Gonzalez faces a challenge in a district where the Gowanus Canal is a big issue—and where the Jobs for New York PAC has laid down its largest marker.
Detecting a spate of shootings associated with basketball games—often involving pre-existing beefs—organizers in Brooklyn are teaching kids and coaches to “hold the ball” when violence threatens.
When the Democrats running for mayor debated, the merits of a proposed ban on profiling figured prominently.
As a large community has taken root, there have been conscious efforts to promote cross-cultural cooperation.
An effort to register homeless people for the 2013 election encountered dozens who thought they had lost their right to vote, and some who thought they’d lost it forever.
