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NYCHA Sees New Efforts Offering Less Fiscal Salvation
NYCHANYCHA's Olatoye (center, with yellow scarf) at a 2014 tour of the Queensbridge Houses. One bright spot for NYCHA -- a new plan to extend the hours during which tenants can get service visits --...
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NYCHA’s Financial Picture is Improving, if Still Dire
William Alatriste for the NYC CouncilPublic Housing Committee Chairman Ritchie Torres has raised questions about the city's tendency to treat NYCHA as separate from other affordable housing programs....
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Acting Out Their Demands, Advocates Take the Stage to Influence NYC Policy
Jarrett LyonsAfter their festival of legislative theatre, the actors took their case to City Hall. It's not often that those who have the experience of homelessness get to create laws that practically...
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CityViews: City Funding for the Arts Strengthens Our Social Fabric
Rob Bennett for the Office of Mayor Bill de BlasioMayor de Blasio at a 2014 reception in Reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur. "Can anyone get me tickets to Hamilton?" It's...
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City Plans Database to Track Promises Made During Rezonings
Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Mayor de Blasio has already promised to create a public database tracking the commitments made to each rezoning neighborhood. At a Land Use Committee hearing on...
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Trepidation Around Proposal for Regulating Store Rents in NYC
Adi TalwarBusinesses and store space for lease on East Gun Hill road between Hull Avenue and Decatur Avenue in the Bronx. In 2014 the Bronx led the city with a 30 percent increase in court-ordered...
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CityViews: City’s Arts Funding Ought to Be Shared More Fairly
AradFrom 2010 to 2014, the city directed more funding to Lincoln Center and the Met (above) than it did to the entire Cultural Development Fund, which provides programmatic grants for the remaining...
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NYPD Critics Hope to Reassert Oversight Power with ‘Right to Record’ Proposal
Roshan AbrahamThursday's rally saw as much talk about a bill that had been shelved, the Right to Know Act, as the one being proposed, the Right to Record Act. A bill that would strengthen...
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No BackSpace: The Case for Abolishing the Police
Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office.Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bratton host a press conference to discuss crime statistics at One Police Plaza. "Overseer, overseer, overseer,...
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Enthusiasm Seen for Far Rockaway Rezoning Plan
NYC EDCA section of the EDC map of the proposed Far Rockaway development area. At a packed information session for the Far Rockaway rezoning proposal on Wednesday night, there were no protest banners...
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