Mayor de Blasio Archives

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‘Lynn Ellsworth’s Dec. 23 opinion essay (“It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives”) mistakenly calls the Mandatory program (MIH) a failure but does so based on…

BySandy Hornick 9Comments

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Dec 2020

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time to End Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. Here Are Some Alternatives

‘The fact is that MIH is just bad policy. In New York City’s housing market, it mostly enriches developers and real estate speculators while inflicting real harm to the neighborhoods…

ByLynn Ellsworth 22Comments

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Sep 2020

Education Health

City’s COVID-19 Testing Efforts for School Staffers Fall Short, Teachers Say

The city offer prioritized COVID-19 testing for DOE staff and students at 34 sites across the city. But only for seven days.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Aug 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Why Crack Down on Revel, but not Cars?

‘If safe streets are still front and center of the Vision Zero mayor’s mind, why not forward stricter policy and regulatory measures that makes similar demands of automobiles and their…

ByCody Lyon 5Comments

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Jul 2020

Government Housing and Homelessness

Council Softens but Doesn’t Stop Hit to Housing Budget

The final fiscal 2021 spending plan staved off cuts to smaller housing programs, but retained a shift of roughly a billion dollars in capital spending on the mayor’s affordability plan.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Jun 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Time to Fire NYC’s Bad Cops

‘The City of New York has constructed an elaborate procedure, from investigations to Board votes to trials, to obscure the disturbing fact that only the NYPD itself holds any disciplinary…

ByJohn Teufel 1Comment

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Jun 2020

Government Investigations

In State Where NYC’s Illegal Fireworks Can Be Bought, Some Want Tighter Laws

Pennsylvania legalized many fireworks in 2017. Several lawmakers there want to rein the sales in, citing noise, fires and ‘chaos.’

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2020

In Depth Investigations Justice

New NYPD Unit Will Crack Down on Drivers Who Fail to Yield — But Nearly Half of Those Tickets Are Still Tossed Out

In his State of the City speech, Mayor de Blasio announced a new NYPD Vision Zero Unit to crack down on dangerous driving behavior, like failure to yield. But data…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 5Comments

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Dec 2019

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