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Opinion: How Black and Jewish Brooklynites teamed up against a controversial housing bill
A broad coalition helped block the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act from winning a veto-proof majority.
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Opinion: How Black and Jewish Brooklynites teamed up against a controversial housing bill
A broad coalition helped block the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act from winning a veto-proof majority.
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Opinion: Stop abusing the environmental review process to block housing
The Sustainable Affordable Housing and Sprawl Prevention Act will reform the process to promote more housing development in walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods.
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Opinion: Lower LIRR and Metro-North fares for families make for a more affordable ride
Starting next month, kids under 18 years old traveling with an adult will pay just $1.
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Opinion: The Scaffold Law isn’t the problem. Unsafe construction is.
The law imposes a simple and morally obvious rule: if you control the work site, you control the danger.
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Opinion: The rise and fall of Elise Stefanik
Karma finally caught up with the MAGA acolyte.
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Editor’s note: A new era at City & State
Jeff Coltin takes the helm of the magazine ahead of a big year in New York politics.
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Opinion: New Yorkers deserve clean and affordable energy, not more fossil fuel greed
Despite what oil lobbyists claim, it’s not true that environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act are slowing down renewable energy projects.
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Opinion: Stand with tenants and put bad landlords out of business
After declaring bankruptcy, Pinnacle Group put its 5,000 rent-stabilized apartments up for auction – but the city can work with the Union of Pinnacle Tenants to find a better ownership model.
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Opinion: Universal child care is big business for small businesses
Providing free child care is a strategic investment that will deliver immediate opportunities and economic benefits for New York City’s small businesses.
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Opinion: New York City needs a new operating system
Here are six recommendations for improving the city’s IT strategy and management.
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Opinion: The IBX is a lifeline for Brooklyn College, CUNY and New York City
Connecting underserved neighborhoods across Brooklyn and Queens will make college more accessible to thousands of people.
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Opinion: City leaders must continue the work to protect and strengthen NYC’s nonprofits
For years, nonprofits have suffered from a complex municipal contracting and payment system that has made their work unnecessarily difficult.
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Opinion: Black and Brown New Yorkers deserve an immediate solution to the homeowner crisis
New York City’s ban on short-term rentals is inadvertently pushing Black and Latino homeowners towards financial hardship. The City Council must fix it.
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Opinion: What’s next for Mamdani’s criminal justice agenda?
His decision to retain NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch signaled a degree of capitulation, but there are issues and decisions to come that will reveal Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s commitment to criminal justice reform.
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Opinion: Task-sharing and the stepped-care solution to youth mental health care
What global mental health innovation can teach New York City about youth support.
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Opinion: The kids are alright
We need to follow data and best practices to address youth crime.
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Opinion: Affordability begins with food and New York must act now
The state needs a modern food system that can absorb federal uncertainties and withstand market shocks.
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Opinion: Jewish CUNY students still need support
The next mayor should keep that in mind as he appoints members of the CUNY Board of Trustees.
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Opinion: New York’s powerful combination of business, civic and academic partnerships will drive our next chapter
It’s incumbent upon every elected leader to help forge these powerful bonds.
