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Opinion: The Window is Closing to Rezone for a More Equitable SoHo

‘We need fewer barriers to access and more affordable housing. With just over a year left in this administration, rezoning SoHo is an important legacy that shouldn’t be pushed off…

Health Opinion

Opinion: COVID-19 Showed us Life Without Grand Juries. It Was an Improvement.

‘The grand jury—which one former jurist said would indict a ham sandwich—has long outlived its usefulness and instead acts as the prosecutor’s puppet. It is well past time for…

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Opinion: New York Needs Its Own Voting Rights Act

‘We have the opportunity to protect our democracy by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York.’

NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: NYCHA’s New Rescue Plan Must Wait for Resident Input

‘We expect that NYCHA and our local elected officials will embrace the opportunity to work with us. These are our homes and nothing will happen to us without us.’

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Opinion: Open, Hybrid or Fully Remote, NYC Schools Need Aid, Not Austerity

‘Without increased funding to make up for structural losses at schools, the institutionally racist chasm of inequity in education will continue to grow wider as students least served by city…

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Opinion: Now More Than Ever, NYC Needs a Stock-Transfer Tax

‘The lower the trading volume, the lower the tax. This would help diminish the wild and speculative volatility that caused many of Wall Street’s and America’s problems in recent years.’

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Opinion: Budget Cuts to City Parks This Year Will Worsen Decades of Underinvestment

All the recent news coverage and social media posts about New York City parks ridden with trash focus on the symptoms—not the system—which has historically underfunded our parks.

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Opinion: NYC School Children Deserve a Safe Route to School

The city announced earlier this month that it plans to reduce school bus capacity to adhere to social distancing guidelines, meaning more children will likely be driven to school. ‘Putting…

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Opinion: Will the City Step Up for Black and Latinx-Owned Small Businesses?

‘My businesses are just two of the thousands of small businesses in New York City run by women and people of color. The lack of government support for these businesses…

NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: City’s Finance-Driven Approach to Managing NYCHA is Wrong for Tenants

NYCHA’s new strategy to pay for repairs at 110,000 public housing units prioritizes finances and not tenants’ best interests, Justice For All Coalition member Kristen Hackett argues.

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