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City Must Use .NYC to Create a Real Civic Commons

The arrival of .nyc gives City Hall the chance to build a vibrant online toolkit for democracy. But it will require work, money and vision for the de Blasio administration…

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Tips for Tenants Battling Rent Increases in Court

A tenant who has fought—and even won—against her landlord over Major Capital Improvements gives advice to renters facing similar disputes.

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Housing Discrimination Doesn’t Begin or End with ‘Poor Doors’

An advocate who has fought for fair housing catalogues the many subtle ways property owners and public policies lock out renters along lines of income, race, ethnicity, disability and more.

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Op-ed: Broken Windows, Topless Ladies and the New Times Square

The controversy involving a pioneering pedestrian plaza in a neighborhood famously transformed by quality-of-life policing is a clash between two dominant ideas in modern New York: One, that sanitized spaces…

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Maybe New York City Needs Older Cops for Community Policing

If the city wants cops who are more interested in solving problems than chasing bad guys, maybe it ought to start recruiting people with a few more years under their…

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Are There More Homeless People in New York City?

A veteran advocate digs through the available statistics to find a fuzzy answer on how many homeless there are, let alone whether their numbers are increasing.

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Consequences are Coming from NYS’s Lack of Clean Water Investment

Fifty years ago, New York voters approved the Pure Waters Bond Act, a predecessor of the Clean Water Act, which set the national goal of making all our waters safe…

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Annoyed by Activists Forcing Bernie Sanders Off Stage? Get Over It

White progressives, it’s OK to be offended by BlackLivesMatter activists drowning out Bernie Sanders in Seattle. But only if you get over it really fast.

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NYC Housing Community Responds to ‘Poverty Housing Industry’ Op-Ed

Critiques of the ill-effects of “concentrated poverty” and the location of subsidized housing are decades old. But they’ve been rejuvenated by recent research, court decisions and regulations.

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City’s Sewer Overflows are Your Problem, too

A coalition of water-quality groups outline ways that policymakers, city workers and individual residents can make a dent in the amount of untreated water that taints New York’s creeks, rivers…

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