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CityViews: Rezoning Vote Confrontation Demands Community Board Reform

After a loud protest disrupted a community-board vote on the mayor’s proposed rezoning, confusion, charges and countercharges swirled. One of the protest leaders says the episode illustrates the need for…

Health Opinion

CityViews: Who Needs an HIV Test Today? You do.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV, and one in seven of those don’t…

Opinion Podcasts

Audio: The Day My Parents, and 4000 Other Strangers, Married Across Racial Lines

My mom and dad are among many thousands of couples who’ve wed in the 50 years since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loving v. Virginia. But they’re different from most:…

Opinion

CityViews: What’s Wrong With the Mayor’s School Diversity Plan

Whenever the mayor decides to take the promised second step in this journey, let it be a giant step, worthy of the greatest city in the world.

Opinion

CityViews: To Fund Arts Equally, City Must Spend Rather Than Cut

‘We do not want to see small and large organizations fighting each other over crumbs, creating more divisiveness in our already divided society.’

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CityViews: Firms Linked to Foreign Bribery Have Given Advice on Transit Crisis

Hoping to explain the rash of subway delays, the media often rely on a study funded by two corporations that later took contracts with the MTA to work on the…

Opinion

CityViews: ‘We are making good on the promise of a strong and sustainable neighborhood’

The city’s planning and housing commissioners review progress in East New York one year after the major rezoning there.

Opinion

CityViews: Kids With Special Needs Would Lose if City Wins Charter-School Closure

A mom who is suing the DOE writes about the role a threatened charter school has played in the lives of her two sons with learning disabilities.

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CityViews: Crackdown Against AirBnB Hurts Families of Color

‘The state and city of New York have instituted policies that threaten to stifle innovation and undermine efforts to grow our economy from the bottom up and from the middle…

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City-Views: Blocking Immigrants from Essential Services Hurts All New Yorkers

The Trump Administration is taking steps to deprive immigrants of essential services, including health care, and that would be bad for all New Yorkers, regardless of status.

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