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NY State Must Clear Up Mystery of Missing Test Items

A handful of questions on last year’s state ELA test seem to have disappeared from official tallies of students’ performance. Does that mean kids were forced to wrestle with bum…

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Slut Shaming Feeds the Sex Trade

“The sense of entitlement that enables boys to call a girl a THOT during 6th grade recess … is the same sense of entitlement that emboldens 50-year-old men to purchase…

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Op-Ed: UWS Straining Under Homeless Shelters

A resident takes issue with our story on the impact—or lack thereof—of shelters and supportive housing facilities on neighborhood quality of life.

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Pol: Schools Need State Help, Not Sensational Headlines

A Bronx legislator responds to coverage that linked him to the high number of failing schools in his district. Ignoring social factors or state funding won’t solve the problem, he…

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Neighborhoods Need the Livery Base Bill

If protecting neighborhood riders is more important that shoring up the profits of Uber and Lyft, two livery industry officials write, then the TLC should support a bill to regulate…

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Subconscious Biases Might Affect When Cops Pull Trigger

Research indicates that deep-seated stereotypes can affect snap judgments without police officers (or the rest of us) even knowing it. That means police reform has an even bigger challenge on…

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Cuomo Commission Offers Smart Way to Fight Youth Crime

The proposed reforms will help keep our communities safe, even as they treat young offenders fairly.

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Op-Ed: Mayor Must Reckon with St. Patrick’s Parade Legacies

“This is not a conflict between a religious group’s right to run a discriminatory parade and pro-LGBT advocates’ demand to enter it. It’s the encroachment of the religious right into…

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Is the End in Sight for Veteran Homelessness in NYC?

New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to end veteran homelessness by the end of 2015, an incredible achievement for a city that in 2012 had the…

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Op-Ed: Few Links Between Complaints and Broken-Windows Policing

The NYPD contends that its quality-of-life crackdowns respond to residents’ complaints. But there’s little evidence of a consistent link between 311 reports and police activity.

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