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CityViews: Project Labor Agreements Will Lower Costs and Improve Results for NYCHA

PLAs are certainly not the only solution, but they have a demonstrated record of meeting cost, quality, and scheduling challenges on the overwhelming majority of public building projects where they…

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CityViews: Fixing NYCHA Means Scrapping Project-Labor Agreements

When implementing a design-build system, Governor Cuomo simply cannot tie that to a project labor agreement as a means to appease his politically-connected friends.

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CityViews: Why City Cyclists Should Support Congestion Pricing

They don’t sit in traffic. They don’t depend solely on the MTA to get them to work or home. But the people who commute on two wheels have plenty of…

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CityViews: New York City’s ‘Serious’ Crime Problem

Few argue that a murder conviction should not be followed by a term of incarceration, but, accepting for now the reality of prison, what does that mean in years?

Opinion

CityViews: When Developers Threaten Bad ‘As of Right’ Projects, Rezoning Becomes Ransom

‘At worst, the developer’s pitch had all the elegance of a ransom note during a hostage-taking: Give us what we want … or we’ll do something you want even less.’

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CityViews: Gov. Cuomo, Don’t Pass a Budget on the Backs of Our Children

‘At a time when the number of children in foster care continues to grow in the rest of the country, New York is a model for keeping children safe.’ Will…

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CityViews: The Sims Statue Debate Might be Over but the Issue of Health Inequity Remains

Only blocks from the statue’s new home in Green-Wood Cemetery, where Sims is buried, is a hospital where unequal care for childbearing black women is starkly evident.

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CityViews: The Antidote to School Violence Isn’t Armed Guards or New Laws. It’s Locked Doors.

Arming teachers is ridiculous. Additional gun control is unlikely to prevent all shootings. Investing in rigorous controls for access to school buildings is the most practical way to protect our…

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CityViews: New Data Makes Clear That NYC Needs Even More Affordable Housing

The latest data shows that the city has accomplished much already – but that more needs to be done to ensure that everyone who wishes to call our great city…

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CityViews: City’s Prosecutors Enable Misbehavior by Bad Cops

‘Just like the police, the true allegiance of prosecutors is to the law-enforcement system itself, one where the status quo has become indefensible.’

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