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Opinion: What Do We Owe the Generation That Doesn’t Remember 9/11?

“We owe them the truth. We owe them the stories. And we owe them an understanding of what happened, not simply on Sept. 11, but in the days, months and…

Health Justice Opinion

Opinion: How NYC Can Protect Consumers and Cannabis Shop Owners

“The illegal market violates the crux of our legalization system’s purpose: restorative justice,” the authors write. “If a business is found to be selling marijuana without proper licensing, this bill…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Protect NYC’s Short-Term Rental Rules

“What we don’t need are more speculative investors and private equity firms converting much-needed apartments into a revolving door of short-term rentals for tourists with no stake in our city’s…

Climate and Environment Education Government Health Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: We All Have a Role to Play in Water Safety

“Lasting change depends on the shared understanding that water safety is essential infrastructure and our shared responsibility—not just for one season, but year-round.”

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Justice Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Deed Theft Is a Wake-Up Call for Stronger Protections for Older Adults

“If we wait until an older adult’s home has been stolen to ask how they should be protected, we have already waited too long.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Manning Marable Was Right About the 13th Congressional District

What the 2026 Democratic primary reveals about demographic change, coalition politics, and unequal political participation.

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: New York Can Build More Housing Without Shutting Community Out

“Planning cannot be something government does to communities instead of with them. Local residents carry valuable knowledge that can’t be matched by planners sitting in a central office.”

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NYC Runs on Home-Based Child Care. We Now Have an Opportunity to Ensure it Thrives.

“As parents scramble to cover the costs of child care without financial assistance, family child care educators become the stopgap: the ones who keep the door open so that a…

Climate and Environment Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Don’t Let History Repeat Itself for NYC’s Basement Apartments

“The flooding crisis and the housing crisis are intertwined, trapping thousands of vulnerable New Yorkers. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of low-income tenants live in illegal basement apartments, which…

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Why Disability Access Must Be Central To NYC’s Housing Strategy

“People with disabilities deserve the same opportunity as everyone else to choose where they live, build relationships, participate in their communities, and remain connected to the places they call home…

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