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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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CityViews: Disney’s Move Shows Public-Private Partnerships Work, Especially in Hudson Square

‘While Disney’s move to Hudson Square was major news, it was also a reminder of the power of partnership and investment in an area with real potential.’

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CityViews: Why Quibble Over Who’s ‘Homeless’? We Can Afford Housing as a Right for All.

‘It’s scandalous that we would rather blow up homes (and you know, people) in foreign countries than supply them to anyone who needs them in ours.’

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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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