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Opinion: As AI Looms, Ensuring NY’s Human Service Workers Earn a Living Wage

“One of the best ways to protect and center workers is to ensure that jobs that will never be automated pay enough for workers to live comfortably.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: New York City Has a Chance to Plan for Everyone. Will We Take It?

“New York City currently operates without a comprehensive plan to guide its growth and development—making it an outlier among major American cities, which routinely use such frameworks to balance citywide…

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

Opinion: Corporate Mega Warehouses Also Deliver Air Pollution. But Solutions Abound.

“New Yorkers deserve policy that responds to the urgency of diesel exhaust clouding neighborhoods and matches the bold action of similar successful policies across the country.”

Education Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NYC’s Homeless Families Face a Childcare Catch-22

“Often standing in their way are unmet childcare needs, which make it difficult for them to obtain and maintain permanent housing and hold full-time jobs, perpetuating a devastating cycle unlikely…

ARTS and CULTURE Economy Government Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: The Quiet Erosion of an Agreement Granting New Yorkers Free Admission to Park Museums

“Residents were never supposed to be customers purchasing tickets. They were the constituents the museums existed to serve.”

Economy Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: Aspiration and Hardship in NYC’s Hottest Borough

“I’ve seen how Brooklyn has grown in prosperity and desirability, and I’ve also seen that access to opportunity—the hallmark of a just and healthy society—has not kept pace.”

2025 Elections Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Meeting the Moment? Mamdani’s Shift from Insurgent to Mayor

“In the coming months, the mayor will face new tests, and we will better understand what he is willing to fight for.”

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion

Opinion: False ‘Design-Build’ Advertising and How It Hurts NYC Apartment Owners

“The problem is not merely terminology. It is the promotion of an unauthorized delivery method and, often, the suggestion that professional architectural services are included when the advertiser is not…

Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Fixing New York’s Home Care Chaos

“What we need is a return to the original intent of CDPAP. Run by responsible non-profits, with input from disabled people themselves.”

Economy Government Health Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: Mayor Mamdani, Drop the City-Run Grocery Store

“The mayor deserves high praise for making food affordability a priority—but the approach is wrong. There are better, proven, and far less costly solutions that would help many more New…

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