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The NYPD contends that its quality-of-life crackdowns respond to residents’ complaints. But there’s little evidence of a consistent link between 311 reports and police activity.

ByTheodore Hamm 2Comments

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Feb 2015

Uncategorized

De Blasio Speech Focuses on Big Ambitions

State of the city speeches follow a formula. The mayor tells a couple jokes, recounts his successes over the past year and runs down a laundry list of the new…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2015

Housing Court Sees Rising Pressure in Most Affordable Borough

The Bronx is the most affordable borough in the city, but its low-income families also have the hardest time affording the rents they’re charged—which are rising. Bronx Housing Court sees…

ByKate Pastor 0Comments

02

Feb 2015

Housing and Homelessness Investigations News

Tenants Battle Landlords and Bureaucracy in Housing Court

Reforms of housing court have done little to change the way business is done there: Via deals negotiated by landlord lawyers in the hallway with tenants who rarely get the…

ByKate Pastor 2Comments

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Jan 2015

Government

Law Would Permit Adoptees to Find Birth Parents

New York legislators are venturing into the delicate issue of connecting adopted children to the parents who gave them up—they’re considering whether to give all adopted children access to their…

ByEric Levitz 52Comments

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Jan 2015

Justice

From Selma to Municipal IDs, the Role of Faith in Black Organizing

“In our faith communities there has been an unspoken expectation that our religious leaders would also be community leaders, though sadly this is changing.”

ByOnleilove Alston 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Economy Opinion

Advocates Want Menu of City Policies to Address Hunger

They hope Mayor de Blasio will expand universal school meals and create a food policy council. But they also want action on wage rates, wage theft and jobs programs to…

ByMark Dunlea 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Justice

Before Bed-Stuy: What de Blasio Actually Said About Cops

Police unions say there’s blood on the mayor’s hands. What did the mayor say to earn such a charge?

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Dec 2014

Health

City Doing Better Than Most on Treating HIV

But it still faces a challenge keeping people on drug regimens that can prevent serious illness and reduce the risk of transmission, experts say.

ByGerard Flynn 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Justice

The Garner Decision: Read the Law

Criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter are two criminal charges that Officer Daniel Pantaleo might have faced. How does state law actually define those offenses?

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

Op-Ed: Few Links Between Complaints and Broken-Windows Policing

De Blasio Speech Focuses on Big Ambitions

Housing Court Sees Rising Pressure in Most Affordable Borough

Tenants Battle Landlords and Bureaucracy in Housing Court

Law Would Permit Adoptees to Find Birth Parents

From Selma to Municipal IDs, the Role of Faith in Black Organizing

Advocates Want Menu of City Policies to Address Hunger

Before Bed-Stuy: What de Blasio Actually Said About Cops

City Doing Better Than Most on Treating HIV

The Garner Decision: Read the Law

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