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…
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…
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…
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…
Rewarding vehicles that cause less congestion or generate less pollution means reducing the amount of money congestion pricing will pump into the transit system.
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…
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…
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.
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…
