CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York Needs Its Own Voting Rights Act
Timothy Hunter |
‘We have the opportunity to protect our democracy by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYCHA’s New Rescue Plan Must Wait for Resident Input
Marquis Jenkins |
‘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.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Open, Hybrid or Fully Remote, NYC Schools Need Aid, Not Austerity
Mohammad Ahmad |
‘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 and state governments are left to suffer from resource deficits.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Now More Than Ever, NYC Needs a Stock-Transfer Tax
Mary Ann Castle and Gene Grabiner |
‘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.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Budget Cuts to City Parks This Year Will Worsen Decades of Underinvestment
Roxanne Delgado |
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC School Children Deserve a Safe Route to School
Mary Majao |
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 more cars on the road will make the streets more dangerous, especially for children who cannot be driven to school by their parents.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Will the City Step Up for Black and Latinx-Owned Small Businesses?
Marva Babel |
‘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 is a racial and economic justice issue.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City’s Finance-Driven Approach to Managing NYCHA is Wrong for Tenants
Kristen Hackett |
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Industry City Tycoons are Exploiting Pandemic to Advance Rezoning
Brian Garita |
‘We agree that our community can benefit greatly from jobs and resources that prioritize local residents, regardless of their citizenship status. However, we will not rush into a plan simply because a few certain elected leaders have expressed their opinions on a district neither of them have lived in.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: BLM Protests Are Pivotal in Fight for Racial Justice, Despite NYPD Defunding Fumble
Nara Roberta Silva |
‘The protesters’ central demand—to cut at least $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget—was not met, although Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson insist on claiming otherwise. But as a social movement scholar, I can say that such a setback doesn’t invalidate the fact that meaningful social change only happens from the bottom up.’
