CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Rick Cohen, 1951-2015
Tom Robbins |
The investigative journalist and advocate, a City Limits alum, devoted his career to holding the powerful accountable and keeping the powerless accounted for.
Affordable Housing
Does NYCHA’s Development Plan Vindicate John Rhea?
Batya Ungar-Sargon |
The former NYCHA chairman was vilified for his plan to develop housing-authority land. Now that the de Blasio administration has issued its own infill plan, is it time for another look at Rhea’s reign?
admissions
Manhattan Parents Press DOE on Middle-School Selection
Ruth Ford |
The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often an opaque, confusing and infuriating process into one of greater fairness and greater transparency, CEC members say.
