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Opinion: Disinvestment Deepens the Impact of COVID-19 and Racism in the Bronx

‘The pandemic has spared no one—but in The Bronx the virus found a host community that has long been left to fend for itself without the resources to do much…

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Opinion: Stop Echoing Industry City’s Bogus Math on Jobs

Industry City’s ‘Plan for 20,000 Jobs’ included jobs that already exist, jobs that it expected tenant companies to generate, and jobs that murky projections said would be spurred off site.

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Opinion: NY State Prisons Must Relax Rules on Visits

‘Those regular visits were like heartbeats, helping to sustain, energize and strengthen our relationship until, exactly 13 years later, the last prison in which Joe resided disappeared from view as…

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Opinion: New York’s Billionaires Can Afford to Help Save CUNY

‘While I and many other CUNY employees are enraged at the chancellor’s handling of the crisis, he is also administering a system that was slashed in 1975 and gradually bled…

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Opinion: The Truth About Homeless Hotels and the Upper West Side

‘I’m appalled at how homeless advocates have lost sight of the needs of this vulnerable population and have turned against a community that spoke out against human suffering.’

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Opinion: How the Gowanus Rezoning Could Push NYC Forward on Racial Equity

‘The proposed Gowanus Neighborhood Rezoning asks a whiter, wealthier community to absorb new growth in order to create new, permanent affordability in a high-opportunity neighborhood with strong transit access.’

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Opinion: Lessons Must be Learned from NYS Experiment in Mental Healthcare Funding

Barriers and cliffs have surfaced in a five-year pilot program for managed care of Medicaid mental-health spending.

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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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