“Setting our sights on the future, I am confident in the city’s ability to not only catch up with, but actually surpass Local Law 97’s next target: a 50 percent carbon emission reduction goal by fiscal year 2030.”
Government
More New Yorkers Are Struggling to Afford Public Transit: Report
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Transportation and anti-poverty advocates are pushing the Adams administration to provide an extra $55 million in the next budget to expand the Fair Fares program—through which low-income New Yorkers can qualify for half-priced MetroCards—to include people earning up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $60,000 for a four-person household.
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Opinion: NYC’s Subways Need Services, Not Soldiers
Robert Mascali |
“We can create a better environment for both the homeless and riders by setting up drop-in centers within some of the larger subway stations.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: In the ‘Year of Greenways,’ Let’s Insist on Equity
Hunter Armstrong, Sharon Pope-Marshall and EdMundo Martinez |
“This absence of unified design and management can compound inequality. Where some areas of the city have seen the lion’s share of the city’s attention, other areas have been and are in danger of continuing to be completely left behind.”
Government
Lawmakers Seek More Changes to NYC’s Street Vending Rules
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Two years after the passage of Local Law 18—intended to overhaul street vending regulations and add hundreds of additional licenses to the market each year—councilmembers are weighing another package of changes, including one bill that would lift the cap on licenses altogether.
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Opinion: To Boost Attendance, Make School the Place to Be
Lynette Guastaferro and Jacobē Bell |
“When schools take collective ‘ownership’ of chronically absent children and commit to finding out why they’re not in school, it makes a difference.”
Government
Initial Data on Forced Removals of People Deemed Mentally Ill Spurs Demand for Details
Emma Whitford |
“Every time you try to look at a piece of what’s being said here, it opens up a Pandora’s box of questions,” said Beth Haroules, director of disability justice litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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Opinion: Four Steps to End the Impasse at Penn Station
Sam Turvey |
“This is a once-in-a-century opportunity to raise New York and the entire region to new heights of greatness by getting Penn Station right. We can and must do better.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: TLC’s New Policy is a Wrong Turn for People with Disabilities and Drivers
Justin Wood and David Alexis |
“A free pass for Uber, Lyft, and other big corporations to add thousands more inaccessible vehicles to our streets, with drivers footing the bill, is a step in the wrong direction.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City Services are Tattered, and Mayor Adams is Prepared to Make it Worse
Harvey Robins |
“When Mayor Adams presents his budget Thursday, consider the choices he’s made and the impact on the working class and the services they rely on government to deliver. As a matter of leadership, he’s giving away the store. At some point, we need to begin a conversation finally about who pays what and who subsidizes whom?”
Government
To Cut Truck Traffic, NYC Looks to its Waterways
Mariana Simões |
City officials are reaching out to the private sector to help shift some of the delivery of commercial goods away from New York City’s busy streets and onto its waterways.