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CityViews: Letitia James’ Past Support for Tainted Ex-DA is a Concern

Despite growing evidence that his office had wrongfully convicted many Brooklynites, attorney general candidate Letitia James lent her support in 2013 to incumbent District Attorney Charles ‘Joe’ Hynes.

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Art at the Limits: The Makers Behind the Messages in Political Art

We invited artists from a current (and very political) show at one New York gallery to talk about what their art meant or tell us about the person behind…

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CityViews: New York’s 18th State Senate District Deserves an Experienced Lawmaker

Sen. Dilan, who is facing a primary election challenge in September from Julia Salazar, recounts his record in the State Senate.

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CityViews: The Lessons We Learned From Saving Parkchester

‘Parkchester’s rebirth reflects the best of New York and stands as a lesson for communities throughout the country seeking to preserve and enlarge their stock of affordable housing.’

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City-Views: Making NYC Schools Just Will Take More Than Anti-Bias Training

‘NYC schools perpetuate racism and other injustices in many ways that don’t make the news, like white-centric curriculum and small, everyday acts of implicit bias that diminish students.’

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CityViews: A Call for Art Asks, Can Propaganda Promote the Public Good?

‘Given the diverse purposes of propaganda in history and at present to mislead, instill fear, or defend interests, how do artists consider wielding this device?’

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CityViews: Death Highlights Need for the Right Kind of Bike Lane

The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane…

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CityViews: NY Desperately Needs More Advocates in Office

‘Too often, as we all know too well, Albany is a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, cut off from the public eye, prone to ugly backroom dealing and corrupted…

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CityViews: Citizenship Census Question is an Attack on Immigrant Healthcare

‘It is no surprise that members of immigrant and other marginalized communities will not be eager to reveal their citizenship status to government workers knocking on their doors.’

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CityViews: Restricting For-Hire Vehicles Will Hurt New Yorkers When They Most Need Help

‘I’ve been reliably stingy most of my life, opting to take a train and/or bus to get where I need to go. But on a few occasions recently, I folded…

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