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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

What Does the City's Recovery Need? More Libraries

David Giles | January 9, 2013

Libraries perform a critical role in workforce development for low-income New Yorkers. But budget cuts have so curtailed service that Detroit’s libraries are now open more than New York’s.

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It’s a difficult moment to be middle class in New York City — but a new study shows how to keep these residents at home in the five boroughs.

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Blackout Insurance: Solar City Rooftops

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Last week’s brief electricity loss spotlights the stiff energy demands on Con Ed. The company’s load could be lightened – but that would require a few changes to its business plan.

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As city development projects requiring land other people are using gain momentum, some reformers advocate other routes toward fairness.

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Local affordable housing developers cite ways – more helpful than the national “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” standard – for government to promote green construction.

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New proposal would spruce up Riverside Park, adding new amenities for neighbors.

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A review of an exhibit that shows how to make the common space of cities into so much more.

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