New York stands virtually alone among states in allowing teenagers to be tried as adults and sentenced to adult prisons. Amid a wave of juvenile justice improvements, these children seem…
A new version of the Willets Point redevelopment plan envisions a shopping mall in what is now a parking lot—on what is technically parkland. The city and some advocates disagree…
The city hopes EarlyLearn will make for higher-quality city-funded daycare. Despite funding shortages and doubts about the way contracts were awarded, some agencies and advocates believe the program has promise.
The online payday loan surge is driven in part by online lead generators who sweep cyberspace for prospective borrowers and, for a fee, steer them to Internet lenders.
Of the 18 states that ban or strictly regulate payday loans, New York’s is the toughest. But that hasn’t stopped online lenders from finding customers in the Empire State and…
The Bloomberg administration has rolled the dice on a major rezoning and costly infrastructure upgrades in Coney Island. Will the hoped-for development ever appear?
In the ’60s it was an ambitious experiment in progressive education. Today John Dewey High graduates its final class after being closed as a failing high school. What led the…
