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CityViews: NYC Ought to be Fighting for More Than Just 140 Speed Cameras

‘We should pass a state law authorizing and requiring the city to install traffic cameras wherever a person has been killed, where people have been injured, or where violations have been issued.’

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CityReviews: The Days of Crack and Killing, Revisited

‘In five years of research, apparently endless interviews with citizens of the Bronx, devoted police officers and some of the worst people on the face of the earth.’

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CityViews: Achieving Water Quality in the Bronx Means Looking Upstream

‘Bronx communities can no longer shoulder the burden of upstream negligence.’

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CityViews: The Time is Now For Commercial Waste Reform

‘It is high time that we hold the private sanitation companies responsible not only for their awful practices when collecting waste, but also when dumping and processing waste.’

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CityViews: Black, Female and Neglected, 19th-Century Hero Became Students’ Cause

‘Now the nation faces an issue of preserved history through the debate over the removal of Confederate statues. My class decided that we should not minimize history but instead add…

Health Opinion

CityViews: Dear NYC, Here are 10 Ideas for a Fairer, Healthier Future

‘New York City, known as one of the cultural epicenters of the world, modernizes with the times, but often at the cost of smaller, community-based initiatives.’

NYCHA Opinion

CityViews: Don’t Just Fix NYCHA – Reenergize It with Private Resources

The reality is that, no matter how streamlined its management nor how transparent its spending plans may be, NYCHA just does not have the resources it needs.

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City Views: City’s Commercial Waste Zone Proposal Would Threaten my Second Chance

‘The de Blasio administration is advancing a proposal that it knows will lead to job losses in commercial waste carting – including for second-chance workers like myself.’

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CityViews: Squeeze on Regulated Rents Puts Vital Housing Source at Risk

‘We clearly understand their plight, but landlords should not be asked to shoulder the burden of income-challenged tenants. That’s government’s job.’

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CityViews: Tackling Vacancy is Key to Saving NYC’s Small Business

‘The city must adopt a penalty on commercial vacancies to hold unscrupulous landlords accountable … and discourage further displacement of neighborhood small businesses.’

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