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CityViews: City’s Win in Court Won’t End the Need for Youth Shelters

‘We must figure out a path for a right to shelter for homeless youth. Absent that right, young people will continue without the survival resources they need.’

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CityViews: Council Can Foster Clean Water, Healthy Residents With Vote on Gowanus Tank

‘The City Council vote is the first of a series of land use decisions for the neighborhood and provides an opportunity to thoughtfully plan for the future of Gowanus.’

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CityViews: Trump’s Move to Send Liberians Home Causes Pain on Staten Island

‘Instead of showing sensitivity to the needs of my community—and an appreciation for the contributions we have made to this country—President Trump has chosen to attack us.’

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CityViews: Debate About NYC’s Commercial Waste Needs to Focus on Sound Data

‘It’s too easy to believe the worst about the waste services industry, to blame it for not recycling the wastes we all generate and throw away, and to look past…

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CityViews: Government Can Close the Parole-to-Shelter Pipeline

Rikers or a shelter? Neither is a good alternative. Not for community safety. Not for taxpayers. Not for anything. Surely there’s a better way.

NYCHA Opinion

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…

NYCHA Opinion

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?

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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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