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The NYPD is reaching out to activists and young people to attend the Build the Block meetings meant to inform the Neighborhood Policing program. But that’s not the crowd who’s…

ByRoshan Abraham

ByAngely Mercado 34 minRead time

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Jul 2017

Justice

Major Impact Seen from Mayor’s Carve-Out of Deportation Defense Program

The mayor’s decision to omit people convicted of a list of 170 crimes from a program providing legal counsel to detained people facing deportation will affect the very cases where…

ByRoshan Abraham 32 minRead time

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Mar 2017

In Depth Investigations Justice

Opposition Grows to Cuomo’s Plan to Cut Prison Visits

Research shows—and inmate families insist—that visitation is key to prisoners successfully rejoining society and to limiting the damage of incarceration to children.

ByRoshan Abraham 21 minRead time

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Jan 2017

In Depth Investigations Justice

Reports Indicate City’s Progress is Slow on Mental Health Planning for Inmates

Thirteen years after settling a case over mental-health discharge planning for people leaving Rikers, New York is getting closer to the goals it agreed to. But looming changes in federal…

ByRoshan Abraham 27 minRead time

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Community Boards Play Bigger Role Within Tight Budgets

Funding for the bodies has increased steadily, if slowly, since 1996. But resources are still scarce for the entities that represent the city’s most local level of government.

ByRoshan Abraham 7 minRead time

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Aug 2016

Investigations

Community Boards Face Questions Over Demographics

Even as borough presidents have been offering incremental changes, like the appointment of several teenage board members in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, several Council bills to reform term limits…

ByRoshan Abraham 15 minRead time

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Aug 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Do New York’s Community Boards Need Veto Power?

Recent citywide projects like the mayor’s affordable-housing plan have reignited long-standing critiques of community boards—about the value of their advisory votes and how effective they are at reflecting the will…

ByRoshan Abraham 15 minRead time

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Aug 2016

Uncategorized

De Blasio Ferry Could Face Cost Challenges, but Offer New Resiliency

The mayor’s citywide ferry plan could face challenges dealing with operating costs and the development of a market, but supporters say its value to the city includes offering a more…

ByRoshan Abraham 24 minRead time

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Jul 2016

Justice

NYPD Critics Hope to Reassert Oversight Power with ‘Right to Record’ Proposal

The draft law emerged amid anger by many Councilmembers that a different suite of NYPD reforms was tabled by their speaker.

ByRoshan Abraham 5 minRead time

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Jun 2016

Economy

Ideas for Handling L-Train Shutdown Range from Fun to Far-Out

Thinkers are dreaming up engineering solutions to ease the impact or cultural events to capitalize on it, while businesses eye ferries and bus service as potential gap-fillers. See images of…

ByRoshan Abraham 7 minRead time

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NYPD’s Neighborhood Policing Meetings Aren’t Reaching Intended Audience

Major Impact Seen from Mayor’s Carve-Out of Deportation Defense Program

Opposition Grows to Cuomo’s Plan to Cut Prison Visits

Reports Indicate City’s Progress is Slow on Mental Health Planning for Inmates

City’s Community Boards Play Bigger Role Within Tight Budgets

Community Boards Face Questions Over Demographics

Do New York’s Community Boards Need Veto Power?

De Blasio Ferry Could Face Cost Challenges, but Offer New Resiliency

NYPD Critics Hope to Reassert Oversight Power with ‘Right to Record’ Proposal

Ideas for Handling L-Train Shutdown Range from Fun to Far-Out

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