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‘Stop and Frisk’ is Over, But Low-Level NYPD Encounters Now Raise Concerns
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‘Low level’ police interactions in historically overpoliced neighborhoods can escape scrutiny altogether, since they don’t have to be reported.
class
What Role do Middle Schools Play in Deciding Who Gets Into NYC’s Elite High Schools?
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It is clear that most students get on – or off – the track to go to a specialized high school long before they sit down to take the SHSAT in September of 8th grade. See how the middle schools rank.
de Blasio
Many City Agencies Devote Skeleton Staff to Making Records Transparent
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In many agencies with headcounts into the tens of thousands, only a handful of people are dedicated to the task of complying with Freedom of Information Law requests.
Aging
They Say Legal Guardians Ripped Them Off—and the State AG Let Them Down
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Alleged victims of guardianship abuse and trust fraud have come forward to say that Eric Schneiderman’s office refused to investigate their complaints.
BRONX BUREAU
City Residents Riding Commuter Rail Pay More Per Mile than Suburbanites
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This existing fare structure leaves many New York City residents who live in areas served by LIRR and Metro North lines unlikely to use the systems.
Affordable Housing
De Blasio Emails Shed Light on how ‘Affordable Housing’ is Packaged for the Press
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The emails show a developer scripting quotes from a grateful new tenant; a mayoral aide transforming a corporate press release into a governmental statement; and a lack of support from affordable housing advocates who once strongly backed a Brooklyn megaproject.
at risk community services
Group Assisting NYCHA Tenant Leaders has a New Name but a Long History
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At-Risk Community Services, the nonprofit advising the Citywide Council of Presidents in its dealings with the mayor, Council and governor, was only founded in November. But its parent organization has trod a long and successful—if occasionally bumpy—road.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
The Gray Saga: A Two-Century Struggle to Preserve Black Wealth in Brooklyn
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Through the Civil War and Jim Crow, depression and boom, redlining and deregulation, one Black family near the historic Weeksville settlement managed to preserve its hold on the family property. Until it didn’t.
africa
Nairobi Slum Dwellers Feel Let Down by the ‘Promised Land’
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A scheme to replace shanties with newly constructed housing for the poor was undermined by bad economics and a lack of trust.
The Global Squeeze
Hijacked Buildings and ‘Shock and Awe’ Tactics in Johannesburg’s Low-Income Black Neighborhoods
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After apartheid, many Blacks left South Africa’s townships in a search for a better life in the big city. Now they see government, landlords and private-security firms banding together to drive them out.