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Opinion: SoHo/NoHo Zoning Debate is Over Builders’ Windfall, Not Affordable Housing

‘When business groups engineered the recent SoHo/NoHo ‘re-envisioning’ process, many neighbors pushed back, aware of this administration’s miserable track record on developer-driven, community-unfriendly rezonings.’

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Opinion: When Families Protest, Kids Learn

‘Protests are collectives of practitioners, connected by common cause and interest. As such, they are fertile grounds for learning.’

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Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives

‘I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel.’

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Opinion: By Design and Democracy, NYC Must Move Toward Equitable Waterfronts

‘Whether we like it or not, we need to adapt our city to manage the mounting risks that sea-level rise and climate change pose to New York’s waterfront communities.’

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Opinion: Luxury Rezoning Will Displace Flushing Residents, and Our Politicians Know It

‘Just as the pandemic has laid bare long-standing societal issues, not created them from thin air, the Special Flushing Waterfront Project is tied to a long legacy of corporate real-estate…

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Opinion: Why We Organize For Police-Free Schools

‘I have come to see police, surveillance and harsh punitive measures in schools as a way to disproportionately target vulnerable students, primarily Black and Latino, and not to protect and…

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Opinion: Remember Workers Whose Past Prevents Reaching Potential

‘Rather than promote the pathways to success that fair and equitable employment offers for those with criminal justice histories, the current system bars opportunities at every turn.’

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Opinion: NYC Schools Can Learn From ‘Open Streets’ & ‘Open Restaurants’

As politicians quibble over schedules and temperate checks: parents, teachers, principals, custodians and children could learn from the City’s most recent attempt to better use the public space of streets.

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Opinion: Canners Shouldn’t Be Blamed for Gaps in Recycling Capture

‘The city ought to clarify that canning is legal, revoke the obscure laws that occasionally levy fines against canners, and provide support to organizations that provide water, shelter, advocacy, and…

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Opinion: On the UWS, a Privileged Rage Greets the Homeless

‘What we are witnessing on the UWS is a group proudly boasting their shared belief that their perceived safety and protection of property values matter more than the lives of…

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