Councilman Jumaane Williams
Just last week, Mayor de Blasio said the city had in his first year of office financed 17,300 units of affordable housing toward his goal of preserving or…
A federally funded program in East New York will use extensive research to try to predict which domestic violence incidents augur a fatal end, and then employ coordinated efforts to…
Reports indicate the NYPD is under pressure to withdraw a 2007 report on radicalization. Defenders believe recent tragedies prove the report was prescient. But critics have long taken issue with…
An artist who is postering American cities with images of raised hands says conflicting evidence about the killing of Michael Brown hasn’t changed the power of his visual protest.
“In our faith communities there has been an unspoken expectation that our religious leaders would also be community leaders, though sadly this is changing.”
At a weekend forum, officials of the cash-strapped housing authority convinced some resident leaders that they were making real progress on repairs. Questions remain about NYCHA’s deeper issues.
