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Dismissed as “Sal Who?”, Sal Albanese notched a respectable third-place finish in the 1997 primary, then left public life. Now he’s back, with a different set of policies tooled to…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Nov 2012

Economy Justice

Protect Immigrant Work Rights—-By Making them Owners

Statistics show immigrant workers frequently suffer wage theft. One solution pioneered by a Brooklyn center is to launch cooperatives where the workers are also owners.

ByLorraine Boissoneault 0Comments

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Aug 2012

Justice

Bail Fund Aims to Free Poor Defendants

After a state law cleared a legal obstacle, Brooklyn public defenders are forming a fund to pay low-level bails that keep a surprising number of defendants behind bars before trial—with…

ByJamila Pringle 4Comments

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Aug 2012

Investigations

A Tale of Two Brownfields

Even as a city program for cleaning up contaminated sites shows promise, two tainted areas in Brooklyn reflect different challenges that remediation can face – like pricetags and politics.

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Jul 2012

Government Housing and Homelessness

Coney Island's Invisible Towers

The Bloomberg administration has rolled the dice on a major rezoning and costly infrastructure upgrades in Coney Island. Will the hoped-for development ever appear?

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Jun 2012

Education Investigations

Who Killed John Dewey High?

In the ’60s it was an ambitious experiment in progressive education. Today John Dewey High graduates its final class after being closed as a failing high school. What led the…

ByGail Robinson 3Comments

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Jun 2012

Justice

One Day in the Life of Stop-and-Frisk

On May 13, 2011, police made 56 stops in one sector of the 75th precinct. A minute-by-minute account of who was stopped, why and what happened.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Apr 2012

Economy In Depth Opinion

Half of Recovery Jobs Offer Low Wages. So Raise Them!

‘It hurts the young. It helps too little. It boosts unemployment.’ There are plenty of myths about the minimum wage. The reality is, more and more workers are working at…

ByMichelle Holder 0Comments

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Apr 2012

Economy In Depth

Living Wage as Soviet Plot: Da or Nyet?

We asked Soviet experts what they thought of the comparisons Mayor Bloomberg has been making between communist wage policy and a local living wage proposal.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn: A Developing Story

Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it’s just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.

ByJamila Pringle 0Comments

Sal Who?: Brooklyn's Albanese Explains His Mayoral Bid