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To Stop Pedestrian Deaths NYC Must Change How it Builds Streets

Vision Zero is edging us closer to a pedestrian-safe city. But New York won’t get anywhere near that goal until we reverse decades of street design intended to make the…

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Op-Ed: Beaten Back By Conservative Critics, is De Blasio now Joining Them?

NYCHA is bringing back the “Not Wanted” list, more cops are being assigned to address street homelessness and—in the wake of a cop’s death—the mayor is faulting criminal courts…

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Op-Ed: In Defense of a Human-Scaled New York

The looming City Council debate about the mayor’s rezoning proposals should grapple with a deeper question: Should New York accept a future as a hyper-dense metropolis, or try to recapture…

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The Ten Craziest Things Said at the Las Vegas Republican Debate

Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate focused exclusively on foreign policy. City Limits knows nothing about foreign policy—meaning we’d have been very much at home on stage in Las Vegas.

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Op-Ed: Public Schools Lose when we Subsidize Private Education

It’s unfair to public schools that lack funding for art, music or updated books. It goes against the recommendation of the city’s security experts. And it might be unconstitutional. But…

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Why Support Small Businesses? It’s More Than the Economy!

Small Business Saturday is great. But that sort of push needs to happen more often, for it to generate a cultural, systematic shift, rather than a blip on the consumer…

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From Foreclosure to Homelessness, Now You Can Map NYC’s Problems

New York City displays progress, problems and a lot of data about both. A new tool helps users keep an eye on trends like foreclosures.

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New Cure for Health Problems: Clean Power

As world leaders gather in Paris for crucial talks about climate change, it might be time for U.S. residents to think about the issue in my personal terms.

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White Coats in a Diverse State: New York Needs More Doctors of Color

Roughly one in three New Yorkers is black or Latino but only about one in 14 doctors in the Empire State hails from those communities. With med-school trends indicating the…

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What History Tells us About Ben Carson’s Fear of Refugee Radicals

The presidential candidate says the Paris attacks should convince the U.S. to close its doors to Syrian refugees. But if the threat of a violent element justified blocking immigrants, a…

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