George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, seen from the Bronx.
The Vernon C. Bain Center, a jail barge docked off the South Bronx.
The Brooklyn House of Detention. In the face…
The key question might not be whether the city should live without Rikers, or how it would do so, but whether it has the political will to finish the transformation…
In Bill de Blasio’s effort to create a more equal city, the housing authority—a successful Big Government program that now faces existential threats—is the ultimate test flight. And Shola Olatoye…
Initiatives to develop mixed-income housing on NYCHA land and move a substantial number of apartments from public housing to other programs have some advocates concerned. But they have Ritchie Torres’s…
The former NYCHA chairman was vilified for his plan to develop housing-authority land. Now that the de Blasio administration has issued its own infill plan, is it time for another…
The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often…
As many community boards around the city balk at proposed zoning changes, Commissioner Vicki Been cites research suggesting fears of displacement are overblown.
The five boroughs are outpacing the 50 states when it comes to output, and unemployment rates have fallen for all five boroughs. But there was also a record drop in…
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