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“A group of radical activists took over a tiny park near Wall Street and did the seemingly impossible: They got thousands of disaffected, cynical, frustrated people—including me—to believe that a…

ByMaria Luisa Tucker 0Comments

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Jun 2021

Economy Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Addressing New York’s Systemic Inequities Will Be Core to its COVID Recovery

‘We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, where recoveries after the Great Recession, the Sept. 11 attacks, and the early 90s recession exacerbated systemic inequities rather than addressing them.…

ByBarika Williams

ByJose Ortiz, Jr.

ByTom Wright 0Comments

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Sep 2020

Health Opinion

Opinion: Disinvestment Deepens the Impact of COVID-19 and Racism in the Bronx

‘The pandemic has spared no one—but in The Bronx the virus found a host community that has long been left to fend for itself without the resources to do much…

ByWes Caines

ByDesmon Lewis 3Comments

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Sep 2020

Education Health Investigations

Delayed School Start Doesn’t Resolve Worries About Disparities

From school to school and district to district, differing infection rates and resource levels will make for disparate experiences this fall.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jul 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Must Heed COVID-19 Lessons & Offer Racial Justice

‘The de Blasio administration must recommit to advancing its first rezoning in what is now a majority white, middle-income neighborhood and ensure that the vision of a thriving, inclusive, and…

ByAndrea Parker 4Comments

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Jan 2019

Opinion

CityViews: Mayor’s Progressive Agenda does not Equal Economic Inclusion

‘The glaring omission in Mayor de Blasio’s 2019 State of the City address was what the city would do to support marginalized New Yorkers who are unemployed and not in…

ByJoey Ortiz 1Comment

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Jan 2019

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Call for City to Assess Racial Impact as it Reviews Impact of Real-Estate Development

Proponents wonder why an environmental impact study that explores so many facets of a neighborhood—its workforce, open space, traffic, housing market and even shadows—cannot also look at racial impacts.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Nov 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Amazon Will Deliver More Displacement to NYC’s Working Class

‘De Blasio and Cuomo are introducing a giant mechanism for displacement into communities that government already fails so shamefully.’

ByShekar Krishnan

ByLina Lee

ByGregory Louis 1Comment

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Apr 2018

Education Housing and Homelessness News

Council Report Lays Out Agenda to Address NYC’s Segregation

The report interrogates the meaning of integration in a gentrifying city and sets out 12 policy recommendations related to housing, schools and infrastructure.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 9Comments

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Feb 2018

Government

The Mayor’s Message: A Look Back at De Blasio’s States of the City

A review of the mayor’s four previous annual addresses finds ideas that lived and others that died, common themes and changes of emphasis. Watch videos and read transcripts!

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

Opinion: 15 Years After Occupy, We Must Remember the Power of Collective Action

Opinion: Addressing New York’s Systemic Inequities Will Be Core to its COVID Recovery

Opinion: Disinvestment Deepens the Impact of COVID-19 and Racism in the Bronx

Delayed School Start Doesn’t Resolve Worries About Disparities

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Must Heed COVID-19 Lessons & Offer Racial Justice

CityViews: Mayor’s Progressive Agenda does not Equal Economic Inclusion

Call for City to Assess Racial Impact as it Reviews Impact of Real-Estate Development

CityViews: Amazon Will Deliver More Displacement to NYC’s Working Class

Council Report Lays Out Agenda to Address NYC’s Segregation

The Mayor’s Message: A Look Back at De Blasio’s States of the City

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