To answer that, one has to decide what it means to be a progressive mayor and how well the current one has matched that description in both intention and delivery.…
It’s not Bill de Blasio. It’s not even his critics. It’s everyone who’s treated the index-crime count as a barometer of mayoral leadership for 20 years.
We’ve been talking about mandatory inclusionary zoning since candidate de Blasio proposed it more than two years ago. Finally, public review—and a defining policy battle for the administration—begins.
Watch NYU education expert Pedro Noguera, Students First New York organizer Tenicka Boyd and City Limits reporter Ruth Ford discuss the city’s schools, the mayor’s leadership and the battle over…
A veteran advocate digs through the available statistics to find a fuzzy answer on how many homeless there are, let alone whether their numbers are increasing.
Tabloids say there’s a surge in street homelessness. The de Blasio administration disagrees. With only a much maligned, once-a-year survey to go by, it’s hard to say who’s right.
The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.
Brooklyn Independent Media’s Bk Live looks at the mayor’s plan to create an alternative system that will use supervision rather than money to get people to come to court.