A pilot policy to allow transgender people to choose between men’s and women’s shelters has reduced violence. But women’s shelters are safer for either identity.
In an excerpt from the City Limits magazine investigation of small businesses in New York, a look at the holdouts along increasingly chain-ganged 86th Street.
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island’s historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.
In this op-ed, the head of the City Council’s education committee lists the qualifications of a New York City schools chancellor—and argues that Cathleen Black does not meet them.
In the age of the Internet and an era of shrinking government budgets, are public libraries worth taxpayers’ dollars. A conservative policy analyst—and former library worker—says “yes.”
Officially, the city and national economies are out of recession. But in New York’s bodegas, the evidence—in lottery tickets, food stamps and reduced sales—suggests otherwise.
