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Since the 2014 death of Eric Garner, video has ignited an unprecedented debate about policing and race in the United States. Yet some who film the police in action have…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2016

Audio: Young Men in Harlem Grab a Second Chance After Arrests

One young man did time upstate for a crime he says he didn’t do. Another waited two years to have a case against him dismissed. Both got involved with a…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2016

Uncategorized

Open Letter to the Mayor: NIMBY Needn’t Block Plans to Replace Rikers with Jails that Work

A former corrections captain maps out a planning process that to create the community detention facilities New York needs.

ByDavid A. Fullard 1Comment

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Jun 2016

Opinion

Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

ByJosmar Trujillo 2Comments

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May 2016

Opinion

CityViews: Addressing School Inequities Means Admitting There’s a Shadow System for the Rich

Why is the New York City school system so diverse overall and so segregated on a school-by-school basis? You could blame residential segregation. But you’d be wrong.

ByEmmaia Gelman 7Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Advocates Wary of Lawsuit Over City’s Affordable Housing Preferences

A federal court is considering whether federal law prohibits the city’s policy of setting aside 50 percent of apartments in new, subsidized buildings for local residents.

ByJarrett Murphy 5Comments

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Apr 2016

Video

Video: Race and the Media in Campaign 2016

The 2016 presidential campaign has produced rather abundant and unusually blunt talk about racism, exclusion and privilege. But who’s really part of that conversation? What’s it missing? And what…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Uncategorized

Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn

Maps and data show South Brooklyn to be vulnerable to storm surges and challenged by poverty, the legacy of racism and more. What maps don’t show is how residents are…

BySabine Aronowsky

ByLaurie Mazur 1Comment

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Apr 2016

Uncategorized

CityViews: The Danger of Overhyping Danger in NYC Public Schools

One advocate argues that the people slamming Mayor de Blasio’s handling of school safety are employing faulty data and objectionable logic.

ByKesi Foster 1Comment

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory

In many ways, Bay Street is like corridors in other de Blasio administration neighborhood plans. One difference is the tensions over race, policing and ‘quality of life’ that have played…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

Video: Cops, Citizens and the Right to Record

Audio: Young Men in Harlem Grab a Second Chance After Arrests

Open Letter to the Mayor: NIMBY Needn’t Block Plans to Replace Rikers with Jails that Work

Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

CityViews: Addressing School Inequities Means Admitting There’s a Shadow System for the Rich

Advocates Wary of Lawsuit Over City’s Affordable Housing Preferences

Video: Race and the Media in Campaign 2016

Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn

CityViews: The Danger of Overhyping Danger in NYC Public Schools

City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory

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