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Opinion: NYC Must Commit Public Funding to Expand Citi Bike

“In New York, bike share is our only mass transit network that does not receive public financial support. This limits where the system can expand, on what timeline, and how…

Government Immigration Justice Opinion

Opinion: NY Can Address Immigration Court Backlog by Funding Legal Services

“There is currently no right to public defense in immigration proceedings, but having a lawyer to navigate this notoriously complicated system advances the cause of justice.”

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Reining in the NYPD’s Use of Surveillance Technologies

‘Contrary to Mayor Eric Adams’ recent rhetoric, there is no technology that will de-bias and constitutionalize stop and frisk. Tech-washing harmful political strategies will not transform those strategies beyond their…

Economy Government Opinion

Opinion: New York Must Build Up Its Green Workforce as Offshore Wind Expands

‘The offshore wind industry is poised to create more than 10,000 jobs in New York. That number is only growing as federal, state and local investments fuel the expansion of…

Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Stop Hoping for Normal and Start Fighting for a Health Revolution

‘For the Black and Latinx communities in a constant struggle over their health, a return to normal is not good enough—they need a health revolution. Building this new vision of…

Climate and Environment Education Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Help New York’s Students Learn From the Past to Build our Climate Future

“We are proposing a bill to fund a Timbuctoo Summer Climate and Careers Institute that will give NYC students a chance to experience life and make career choices inside the…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Demanding Greater Accountability in Wake of Fatal Bronx Fire

‘The incident has sparked a national conversation about housing injustice and raised a critical question that we must all ask ourselves: Why must it take a high death toll to…

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: New York State Must Hold Nonpublic Schools Accountable on Secular Education

‘New York State allows millions of dollars to flow into private schools without any measures to ensure students actually receive a secular education. New legislation aims to fix this issue.’

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: A Slow But Accelerating Crisis—Preserving Affordable Housing for Up to 1.4 Million NYers

The same combination of streamlined pension fund investments and public subsidies that worked so successfully in the 1980s and early 1990s, needs to be reinvigorated to preserve the city’s enormous…

Justice Opinion

Opinion: DA Bragg’s Well-Intentioned Reforms Have Little Impact While Racist Policing Persists

‘Of the 33 cases we at PROP have seen this year, none entailing a serious charge, 30 involved New Yorkers of color—unsurprising since 90 percent of the more than 7,000…

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