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Corruption, cronyism—much was wrong with old-fashioned machine politics. But compared to today’s campaigns of sound-bites and surveys, yesterday’s ward heelers fused genuine relationships between politics and people’s lives.

BySteve Lilienthal 0Comments

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Oct 2012

Education

Obama + Romney = Lesson for Brooklyn Students

How do you get today’s high school students engaged in American democracy? One Brooklyn high school math teacher is campaigning to improve civic participation by turning pupils into pollsters.

BySamantha Winslow 0Comments

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Oct 2012

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Can NYCHA Be Saved?

Yes, says this writer, but it will require vision and renewed drive by the Bloomberg administration: Doing a few things better will not be enough.

ByJulia Vitullo-Martin 0Comments

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Oct 2012

Government

Brooklyn's Red Coast

In heavily Democratic Kings County, there’s little suspense in the presidential race. But Mitt Romney’s a heavy favorite in a few neighborhoods that favored GOP candidates in 2004 and 2008.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Uncategorized

Seeing Green at the City’s Farmers’ Markets

New York City boasts 138 farmers markets, and 58 news ones in the last six years. On a recent sunny Wednesday, a group of reporters from the CUNY Graduate School…

ByCUNY Street News Team 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Justice

Push for More Crime Data Stalls in Council

While it regularly publishes precinct crime statistics, the NYPD largely refuses to release data on crime at the level of smaller patrol sectors. It’s unclear if Council Speaker Christine Quinn…

ByJordan Moss 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Foreclosure Crisis: Buzz Fades, Protests Continue

Four years after the housing crisis transformed the presidential race, it’s barely mentioned on the campaign trail. But foreclosure is still an issue in New York, and some believe federally-chartered…

ByKeldy Ortiz 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Government

Primary Day, 2012: What One Race Was About

The primary battle between State Senator Martin Dilan and challenger Jason Otano was depicted as a referendum on the embattled Bushwick assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic powerhouse Vito Lopez, a Dilan…

ByPearl Gabel and Patrick T. Andrews 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Government

City Limits, CUNY to Highlight Immigrants' Role in '12 Elections

“The World Votes Here” aims to get a glimpse of the complex and interesting ways in which the city’s ethnic enclaves are participating in campaign 2012.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 2012

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Beyond Scandal, NYCHA Residents Seek More Power

Amid the controversy over the management of New York’s public housing, NYCHA officials are contemplating historic changes to how the agency operates. Tenants are looking for more ways to weigh…

ByCurtis Stephen 0Comments

What if Campaigns Put Out Aid Instead of Ads?

Obama + Romney = Lesson for Brooklyn Students

Can NYCHA Be Saved?

Brooklyn's Red Coast

Seeing Green at the City’s Farmers’ Markets

Push for More Crime Data Stalls in Council

Foreclosure Crisis: Buzz Fades, Protests Continue

Primary Day, 2012: What One Race Was About

City Limits, CUNY to Highlight Immigrants' Role in '12 Elections

Beyond Scandal, NYCHA Residents Seek More Power

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