‘Chancellor Carranza must embrace a global multi-cultural curriculum that optimizes the study of groups that have been previously ignored. And our Sikh community must be included in such a curriculum. ‘
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: City’s Win in Court Won’t End the Need for Youth Shelters
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‘We must figure out a path for a right to shelter for homeless youth. Absent that right, young people will continue without the survival resources they need.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Council Can Foster Clean Water, Healthy Residents With Vote on Gowanus Tank
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‘The City Council vote is the first of a series of land use decisions for the neighborhood and provides an opportunity to thoughtfully plan for the future of Gowanus.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Trump’s Move to Send Liberians Home Causes Pain on Staten Island
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‘Instead of showing sensitivity to the needs of my community—and an appreciation for the contributions we have made to this country—President Trump has chosen to attack us.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Debate About NYC’s Commercial Waste Needs to Focus on Sound Data
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‘It’s too easy to believe the worst about the waste services industry, to blame it for not recycling the wastes we all generate and throw away, and to look past the real people that provide this essential service.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Government Can Close the Parole-to-Shelter Pipeline
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Rikers or a shelter? Neither is a good alternative. Not for community safety. Not for taxpayers. Not for anything. Surely there’s a better way.
capital projects
CityViews: Project Labor Agreements Will Lower Costs and Improve Results for NYCHA
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PLAs are certainly not the only solution, but they have a demonstrated record of meeting cost, quality, and scheduling challenges on the overwhelming majority of public building projects where they are used.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Fixing NYCHA Means Scrapping Project-Labor Agreements
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When implementing a design-build system, Governor Cuomo simply cannot tie that to a project labor agreement as a means to appease his politically-connected friends.
bike lanes
CityViews: Why City Cyclists Should Support Congestion Pricing
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They don’t sit in traffic. They don’t depend solely on the MTA to get them to work or home. But the people who commute on two wheels have plenty of reason to back a policy of charging cars to use the streets that many drivers think they own.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New York City’s ‘Serious’ Crime Problem
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Few argue that a murder conviction should not be followed by a term of incarceration, but, accepting for now the reality of prison, what does that mean in years?
as of right
CityViews: When Developers Threaten Bad ‘As of Right’ Projects, Rezoning Becomes Ransom
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‘At worst, the developer’s pitch had all the elegance of a ransom note during a hostage-taking: Give us what we want … or we’ll do something you want even less.’