For the low-income communities who live along a waterway home to heavy industry and recovering wildlife, Exxon’s settlement with New Jersey has the potential to right old wrongs. But there’s…
The comptroller’s report found problems in handling controlled substances, maintaining facilities and managing finances. Some findings echo our 2012 report on the agency.
A century and a half ago this afternoon, the surrender that effectively ended the Civil War took place. For a city that rioted against the draft and had a Southern…
As repositories of information available to anyone who walks through the door, libraries have always helped foster transparency, accountability and democracy. Their boards, however, struggle on all three counts.
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The lower-income, working-class people along the Jerome Avenue corridor are among the New Yorkers most in need of affordable housing. So why is there so much skepticism about the mayor’s…
School officials have talked for years about improving special education. The de Blasio administration is trying a new approach. Does it go deep enough?
The state is considering setting new, tighter rules on pollution in New York City rivers and streams. The goal is to make more of them open to full human contact.…
Millions of New Yorkers have mistakes on their criminal “rap sheets” that are extraordinarily difficult to fix. But what is a RAP-sheet? Who gets to see it? How do you…