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America's Cities Shaped (and Mishaped) by Rules

Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Homeowners Must Be Wary of Lien Sales

The city allows private companies to collect on overdue water and property tax charges. It’s a sensible way to maximize public revenue, says this author, but it comes with dangers…

Economy In Depth Opinion

Half of Recovery Jobs Offer Low Wages. So Raise Them!

‘It hurts the young. It helps too little. It boosts unemployment.’ There are plenty of myths about the minimum wage. The reality is, more and more workers are working at…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

NYC's Comeback Was (Partly) Foreign-Made

In an excerpt from his new book, noted business writer Greg David looks at the unheralded role immigrants played in fueling New York City’s late-20th Century resurgence.

Government Opinion

NYC Needs Paid Sick Days, Not Lame Excuses

Thousands of New Yorkers face an impossible choice when they get sick: Go to work and get yourself and others sicker, or stay home and risk losing pay or your…

Education Government Opinion

A History Lesson as NYC School Tests Near

Next month, city students take the standardized tests on which their progress, and perhaps the fates of their teachers and schools, depend—all amid a debate over testing that, this writer…

Economy Education Opinion

The GED: Public Good or Private Sector Trove?

A private corporation has just taken over the test that millions use to attain credentials outside of high school. Amid talk of rising fees, it’s time for the city to…

Economy Opinion

Two Sides of the Green Story

The environmental progress New York City—and Brooklyn especially—have made reflects federal legislation and local infrastructure. But it’s also been a story of community groups working to make their neighborhoods healthier.

Opinion

Go Green. Fight Poverty.

Even in poor neighborhoods not home to power plants, waste transfer stations or the other egregious environmental offenders, physical conditions sustain not just ill health, but poverty as well.

Opinion

Let's Streamline the Weatherization Process

While the establishment of programs like Green Jobs Green New York has certainly helped scale up programs that use weatherization to attack a set of urban ills, there remains work…

Opinion

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