Mapping the Future
De Blasio & Senior Housing: What Was That Promise That He Made?
Jarrett Murphy |
The problem isn’t that the mayor isn’t doing what he said in 2018. It’s that he didn’t say much of anything.
bikers
Can the City Change Course on How a Key ‘Vision Zero’ Law is Enforced?
Mykel Barrett, Hadiya Diallo, Jeanmarie Evelly, Sokhna Fall, Fariha Fawziah and Robert Pena |
Forcing cops to attend hearings? Letting victims be part of the process? Reforming the law itself? We asked experts and advocates to weigh in on how to fix flaws in the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law exposed by a City Limits investigation.
bikers
‘Vision Zero’ Failing to Stick? Many Drivers Escape Penalties for ‘Failing to Yield’
Mykel Barrett, Hadiya Diallo, Jeanmarie Evelly, Sokhna Fall, Fariha Fawziah and Robert Pena |
A majority of summonses issued under the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law end up getting dismissed after hearings, a City Limits investigation found, and victims rarely learn the outcome of those cases.
CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC
See Which NYC Schools Eat Lunch Before 10 a.m.
David Brand |
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
Alain Gaillard |
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
Art Langer |
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
Tara Klein |
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?
Jeanmarie Evelly |
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
Jarrett Murphy |
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
Henry Kanengiser |
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.
