With Presidential Primary Election Day coming up in less than a month, it looks like New York’s contest might be more interesting than we’d have expected it to be this late in the campaign calendar. If you want to get involved, here are some tips.
Prosecutor Ken Thompson says the cop who killed a man in a NYCHA stairwell shouldn’t do a day behind bars because he didn’t intend to hurt anyone. More than 200 people convicted of unintentional killings are serving time in New York.
New Yorkers who are murdered are more likely than murder victims elsewhere to be stabbed. And women are more likely to die from a knife attack than a gun assault. But gunshot victims are more likely to die than people who get stabbed.
It was the greatest UrbaNerd Trivia Challenge in our history. And also the first.
The deal on the mayor’s citywide Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals means the action now moves back to neighborhood plans—and the decisions by individual councilmembers and developers that will shape the housing that actually gets built.
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Three of the city’s district attorneys told the City Council of problems with accessing case files or tracking criminal cases.
City Hall unveiled statements of support from the Urban League and NAACP.
The group says it wants more certainty that housing for low-income New Yorkers will be produced and that the work of building the new apartments goes to local workers making good wages. UPDATE: Three major community groups have chimed in with a sightly different take.
The mayor told MSNBC that what the Democratic frontrunner promises in her platform is more important than what financial titans paid tens of thousands of dollars to hear her say behind closed doors.
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