CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Hotels Save Homeless Lives
Kathleen Alvarez |
‘I’m enormously grateful that my patients are safer now with private rooms and bathrooms in what would be an otherwise empty hotel.’
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Opinion: By Design and Democracy, NYC Must Move Toward Equitable Waterfronts
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin |
‘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.’
City Council
Opinion: Luxury Rezoning Will Displace Flushing Residents, and Our Politicians Know It
Fiona Zhao and Joseph J. Jung |
‘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 pushing for development that will displace us.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Why We Organize For Police-Free Schools
Leah Moise |
‘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 support us as many suggest.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Remember Workers Whose Past Prevents Reaching Potential
Vivian Nixon |
‘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.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Schools Can Learn From ‘Open Streets’ & ‘Open Restaurants’
Deborah Morris |
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.
canners
Opinion: Canners Shouldn’t Be Blamed for Gaps in Recycling Capture
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei |
‘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 community to canners. ‘
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: On the UWS, a Privileged Rage Greets the Homeless
Meg Sullivan |
‘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 others, and have always mattered more than the lives of others.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The Window is Closing to Rezone for a More Equitable SoHo
Jessica Katz |
‘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 any longer.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: COVID-19 Showed us Life Without Grand Juries. It Was an Improvement.
Dan Curbelo Zeidman |
‘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 it to be relegated to the trash heap of history.’
