The mayor’s housing plan will generate more than 1,800 new jobs for porters, maintenance workers, superintendents and other building service workers—which could provide life-changing opportunities, if they come with good wages and benefits.
CityPlate
See Which NYC Schools Eat Lunch Before 10 a.m.
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Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
Agenda 2019
Special Election Marked a Political Milestone Long in Coming for NYC’s Haitians
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When Farah Louis formally takes office, New York will for the first time have two Haitian-Americans in the City Council—a major milestone for the largest and one of the oldest ex patriate Haitian communities in the world.
amazon
Opinion: Amazon Deal’s Collapse Shows the Work Big Tech Must Do in NYC
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Big Tech can succeed here, but only if its presence benefits all New Yorkers.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Stop Pitting Home-Care Workers Against Employers
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State regulations force workers to accept dire wages, and it’s time for the state to take responsibility for covering these costs and rectifying a system it has neglected for decades.
cars
Should Motorcycles and Greener Cars Get a Pass on Congestion Pricing?
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Rewarding vehicles that cause less congestion or generate less pollution means reducing the amount of money congestion pricing will pump into the transit system.
Agenda 2019
How Often do Preferential Rents Rise? Rarely, But More Than They Used To
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One topic of profound disagreement between tenant advocates and property owners is preferential rents. Newly released data this week provides some important background on how those rent discounts operate.
Agenda 2019
In New York, Where You Live Can Determine How Hard it is to Vote
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In the 2018 election and many before it, New Yorkers faced a voting hurdle unlike voters in most other major cities: a relatively low number of polling places, scattered unevenly through the city.
careers
Are City Schools and Hospitals Doing Enough to Diversify Medicine?
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Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black and Latino kids know they have the right to dream.
Mapping the Future
On City Streets and in Wild Landscapes, the Fight for America’s Soul in 2020 is About Land
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From gentrifying urban neighborhoods to wild federal lands, it’s time for a unifying vision of how America’s fundamental asset can serve the public interest.
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New Federal Tax Program for Depressed Neighborhoods Stirs Hopes and Concerns
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A lack of regulations, and a dearth of information about what impact earlier place-based tax programs had, has some New York advocates and experts worried that Opportunity Zones offer as much peril as they do promise.