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Albany
Amid Fireworks, the Senate Stalemate Continues
July 2009
Albany
After the Deadlne
July 2009
Albany
Can the Senate be Saved?
June 2009
Senate Turmoil Puts Everything in Doubt
June 2009
Albany
Eye on Albany: Bottle Bill Bottleneck
June 2009
Albany
A New Power in Albany
June 2009
Gun Battle
May 2009
Jailing Women, Punishing Children
May 2009
Albany
MTA Rescue Plan: Out of Service?
April 2009
Albany
A New Era in Fighting Drugs
April 2009
Albany
The State, the City and Same-Sex Marriage
April 2009
Albany
The Legislature Takes on Election Reform
April 2009
Albany's Pork Feast
April 2009
What the State Budget Means for the City
April 2009
Stealth Budget
March 2009
Save the MTA -- Before It's Too Late?
March 2009
A Tough Fight to 'Drop the Rock'
March 2009
Clean-Up Money
March 2009
MTA Bailout on the Ropes
March 2009
Big Budget Cuts for Open Space
March 2009
How Upstaters Decide
March 2009
Tax the Rich?
February 2009
Ethics in Albany: An Oxymoron?
February 2009
Albany
A Renewed Effort to 'Drop' New York's Drug Laws
February 2009
Albany
How to Balance the State Budget
February 2009
Cuts for the City
February 2009
The Senate Looks at How It Operates
January 2009
The Democrats Take Albany
January 2009
Albany
Advancing Rights
December 2008
Albany
A Permanent Democratic Majority?
November 2008
Albany
The Other Power Shift
November 2008
Albany
Election Results 2008 - General
November 2008
Albany
Staten Island 24th Senate District: Seeking Re-election in a GOP Stronghold
November 2008
Bronx/Manhattan 28th Senate District: A Serrano in the Seat
November 2008
Staten Island 60th Assembly District: A Swing Seat
November 2008
Staten Island 61st Assembly District: Titone Tries for a Full Term
November 2008
Longtime Incumbent Seeks Two More Years
November 2008
Brooklyn/Staten Island 24th Senate: Red Borough, Blue District
November 2008
Queens 12th Senate District: 25 Years in Albany
November 2008
Queens 23rd Assembly District: Running Against Albany
November 2008
Queens 26th Assembly District: A Low-Budget Race in Bayside
November 2008
Queens Assembly District 28: A Republican Tries Again
November 2008
Queens 30th Assembly District: Running from a Flower Shop
November 2008
Bronx/Manhattan 31st Senate District: Surviving in a Different District
November 2008
Bronx/Manhattan 31st Senate District: Surviving in a Different District
November 2008
Bronx 32nd Senate District: Running from Both Sides of the Fence
November 2008
Staten Island 62nd Assembly District: Going for a Full Term on the South Shore
November 2008
Staten Island 63rd Assembly District: Running on Four Lines
November 2008
Bronx 82nd Assembly District: A Three-peat in the Northeast
November 2008
Bronx 84th Assembly District: Arroyo Seeks Another Term
November 2008
Challenger's Campaign Fades
November 2008
Veteran Challenges Former Teacher
November 2008
More than $1 Million for an Easy Race
November 2008
Businesswoman Challenges Incumbent
November 2008
Party Activist Looks for Upset
November 2008
A Three-Way Race in Sunset Park
November 2008
Schools, Environment Issues in Brownstone District
November 2008
Challenging the Party Chief
November 2008
A Familiar Contest in Bushwick
November 2008
Former Councilmember Seeks to Remain in Assembly
November 2008
Jeffries Seeks a Second Term
November 2008
Party Leader Runs Again
November 2008
GOP Hits Snags in the Silk Stocking District
November 2008
Kavanagh Seeks to End the Turnover
November 2008
A 22-Year-Old Seeks to Topple a Veteran
November 2008
A Third Round in Highbridge
November 2008
Bronx Assembly District 78: Rivera's Easier Contest
November 2008
Bronx 80th Assembly District: Rivera Faces Two Opponents
November 2008
Bronx 81st Assembly District: A Challenger Hangs On
November 2008
A GOP Incumbent Seeks to Turn Back a Democratic Tide
October 2008
Looking for a Landlside?
October 2008
Sampson Seeks Another Term
October 2008
Adams Seeks Re-election
October 2008
A Republican Tries to Beat the Odds
October 2008
Brighton Beach's $1.8 Million Man
October 2008
Duane Faces Little Known Challenger
October 2008
Espada's New Clout
October 2008
Klein Goes for Three
October 2008
Rematch in the Bronx
October 2008
A Second Round in Northern Brooklyn
October 2008
Going for Three Decades in Office
October 2008
Trying for a Full Term in Crown Heights
October 2008
Longtime Incumbent Faces a Party Activist
October 2008
New Incumbent Seeks a Full Term
October 2008
A Former Nadler Aide vs. a Former Nadler Opponent
October 2008
Powell Faces Two Challengers
October 2008
A Frequent Candidate Tries Again
October 2008
Former Staffer Challenges an Incumbent
October 2008
Guide for the Last Minute Voter
October 2008
Cash Campaigns
October 2008
Recognizing Same-Sex Marriages
September 2008
Running Under Indictment in the West Bronx
September 2008
Taking on the Brownsville Dynasty
September 2008
A Second Chance in Canarsie
September 2008
The Organization Chases A Rainbow
September 2008
Going Head to Head in Morrisania
September 2008
A Factional Split in the Southeast Bronx
September 2008
Filling a Last-Minute Vacancy
September 2008
22nd State Assembly District
September 2008
Guide for the last minute voter
September 2008
In Queens, a Race to Control the Senate
August 2008
August 2008
A Battle Over Reform in Manhattan and Brooklyn
July 2008
Challenging Silver
June 2008
October 2004
October 2004
October 2004
July 2004
July 2004
July 2004
July 2004
July 2004
July 2004
July 2004
Arts
Lights, Action, Tax Credit
May 2009
Tuning Up for Summer Concerts
April 2009
Bracing for Tough Times
December 2008
Arts
Vanishing Culture
September 2008
Arts
The Battle Over Street Art
March 2008
After the Theater Strike
December 2007
Bigger Media, Less Democracy
February 2007
Arts Funding, Transformed
January 2007
Artist Displacement
November 2006
Fringe Benefits
August 2006
Foreign Artists
May 2006
How To Make It In NYC As An Artist
April 2006
Proposed Arts Budget, A Destabilizing Déjà Vu Dance
March 2006
The Cartoon Crisis
February 2006
Space Woes
January 2006
Gifts For The Disabled: Accessibility To The Arts
December 2005
Arts Education
November 2005
Is New York The Cultural Capital Of The World?
October 2005
9/11 And 'Inappropriate Art'
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Long-Term Issues Facing the Arts in NYC
August 2005
Arts Funding 101
July 2005
The Show Must Go On (But Will You Get In To See It?)
June 2005
Kindred Spirits: Art And Money
May 2005
1 Percent For Art
May 2005
Culture and Construction
April 2005
Has The Music Scene Died In New York?
December 2004
Accountability For Non-Profits
May 2004
Another Museum Boom
April 2004
The Arts Community Of St. George -- Hot and Homegrown
March 2004
Arts Groups Look to Congress to Ease Cultural Exchanges
February 2004
Artists' Fight To Sell On The Sidewalk
January 2004
Non-Union Tours of Broadway Shows
December 2003
The Future of the Philharmonic at Lincoln Center
November 2003
The Marketing Of Culture
October 2003
A National Theater at Ground Zero
September 2003
Lessons from Lincoln Center for the Ground Zero Cultural Center
August 2003
Arts Education
July 2003
A Downtown Cultural District Takes Shape
June 2003
Budget Battles In The Arts
May 2003
Cultural Diplomacy
April 2003
The Musicians' Strike
March 2003
Who Needs Art Criticism?
February 2003
"In spite of the most challenging economic environment for arts groups in decades, there are signs of continued cultural growth," Martha Hostetter writes. And indeed, it is to the arts that a new report looks to jumpstart the city's overall stagnant econ
January 2003
Hostetter
December 2002
Artists' Visas
November 2002
Artists And Health Insurance
October 2002
Building Community
9/11 Special
The Mostly Mozart Strike: Music, Money and Maybe Better Art
September 2002
The Arts and Albany
August 2002
Corporate Giving
July 2002
Hollywood East?
June 2002
Culture and the World Trade Center Site
May 2002
Collaborations
April 2002
Funding And The Arts
March 2002
Outlook From City Hall
February 2002
Epic: An Experiment In Arts Education
January 2002
Flailing After 9/11
December 2001
Culture Counts
November 2001
Heart of Brooklyn
September 2001
Budget Shenanigans
June 2001
Arts Budget
May 2001
Indecent: The New Ruckus at the Brooklyn Museum
February 2001
The Governor's Proposed Cut in the Budget for the Arts
January 2001
Making Art Matter: A Plan to Redesign the Department of Cultural Affairs
December 2000
The Arts are Apple Pie in New York, But The Candidates Have Been Silent on Specifics
October 2000
Has New York Become the Art of the Impossible for Young Artists?
September 2000
Funds for the Arts Go Up, but Remain Unfair
August 2000
Art for Politics: The Museum of Modern Art Strike
July 2000
Cattle Call: Summer Stampede Set for the Boroughs
June 2000
Board of Education Hosts Student Performers
May 2000
April 2000
Darkhorses Win International Competition for TKTS Booth
March 2000
"Sensation" Ruling
January 2000
"Sensation" Debate
December 1999
No loft lost
November 1999
Children
Going to Jail, Losing a Child
April 2009
A Place to Call Home
August 2008
Children
Obstacles to Psychiatric Help
January 2008
Children
A Treatment that Follows Drug Users
December 2007
Helping Abuse Victims Keep Their Children
November 2007
Police Limit ‘Hanging Out’
October 2007
New York’s Family Treatment Court
September 2007
A Report Card from Students
August 2007
When Students Need ‘Someone To Talk To’
July 2007
Foster Care System Gives Parents a Bigger Role
June 2007
Helping Foster Children Become Better Parents
April 2007
Children
Juvenile Injustice
January 2007
Children
Cops In High Schools
December 2006
Teen Court Days
November 2006
HIV 25 Years Later
September 2006
Asthma, Poverty and Pollution
September 2006
Teen Activists
August 2006
Helping Men Be Fathers
July 2006
Children
Childstat
June 2006
Children
Cell Phone Ban Angers Students
May 2006
Should 16-Year-Olds Have The Right To Vote?
May 2006
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
April 2006
Teen Curfew?
March 2006
Honoring Nixzmary's Memory By Avoiding A Panicked Response
January 2006
Daycare Workers
July 2004
Children and Insecticides
June 2004
Immigrant Children’s Illnesses and Access To Health Care
May 2004
Child Care For Welfare Recipients
April 2004
Foster Children With Mothers In Jail
March 2004
Children and Pollution: School Buses, Second-Hand Smoke
February 2004
The Flu; Abuse; Lead Paint
January 2004
Domestic Violence and Family Homelessness; Also: Frightening Facts From Ferrer
December 2003
After School Programs
November 2003
Parents Last? Also: The Lower East Side, Poor But Not Broken
October 2003
A Report On Violent Teen Relationships
September 2003
School Lunch Lack; Fixing Diesel-Fueled School Buses
August 2003
Summer Youth Employment Program . . . Indicators of Child Well Being. . . Poverty Among Asian American Children
July 2003
School Buses Can Be Dangerous to Kids' Health
June 2003
Asthma; Infant Mortality; Recruiting Foster Parents
May 2003
Talking To Kids About War
April 2003
When Farah Domond first got a job at Wendy's three years ago, she had two toddlers at home and was pregnant with a third child.
June 2002
Alternative Juvenile Court
April 2002
Children's Services
November 2001
Child Health Plus
October 2001
Law Guardians for Children
July 2001
Summer Jobs Threatened
June 2001
Foster Children Still at Risk?
May 2001
Child Care
April 2001
Attorneys For The Parents
March 2001
Fostering Writers
February 2001
The Governor's Budget
January 2001
National Survey on Child Poverty
November 2000
Election Special--Support for Children . . . In Theory
October 2000
The Teachers' Contract
September 2000
The Party Platforms
August 2000
NYC's New Budget and Kids
July 2000
Family Court Fiasco
June 2000
Elian Gonzalez: Whatever Happened to Legal Precedent?
May 2000
Marisol Update: Prospects are Grim
April 2000
Kids In Prison
March 2000
State of the State
January 2000
Private Child Welfare Agenices
December 1999
Better Late Than Never
November 1999
Civil Rights
Stonewall Revisited
June 2009
False Arrests Reviewed
May 2009
The State, the City and Same-Sex Marriage
April 2009
Civil Rights
Outrage over Arrests
February 2009
Civil Rights
Advancing Rights
December 2008
Term Limits, Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act
October 2008
How Free Are We?
July 2008
Civil Rights
Marijuana Busts -- and Bias
June 2008
Civil Rights
Welcoming Protests
April 2008
Gay Marriage, Death and Taxes
March 2008
Racial Divisions Persist
January 2008
New York Plays Key Role in Fight for Transgender Rights
November 2007
New Charges of Police Abuse
October 2007
Wins and Losses in Albany
August 2007
New ID Could Cost Immigrants Their Licenses
July 2007
Co-op Disclosure Bill Stalls in Council
May 2007
A Promise to Shake Up State Human Rights Division
April 2007
Where Is The Civil Rights Agenda?
February 2007
Civil Liberties and the Election
November 2006
Civil Rights
No-Fault Divorce: Feminists Clash
October 2006
Civil Rights
Parades, Permits And The Right To Protest
August 2006
Civil Rights
Pataki's Legal Legacy
July 2006
Civil Rights
Same-Sex Marriage Showdown
May 2006
London and NYC On Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Security, etc.
March 2006
Domestic Partners Bill –- Quashed In Court
February 2006
Christine Quinn and Gay Rights in NYC
January 2006
Same-Sex Marriage Loses
December 2005
Proposed Law Aims to Prevent Discrimination
November 2005
City Strengthens Human Rights Law
October 2005
Human Rights Law: Will It Become An Issue In The Mayoral Campaign?
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Civil Rights Issues Divide Bloomberg and Democratic Rivals
August 2005
Howard Beach Is Not Alone
July 2005
Civil Rights Restoration Act: Opposed by Mayor, Stalled in Council
June 2005
Bully
May 2005
Academic Freedom, Intimidation, And Mayoral Politics: The Case of Rashid Khalidi
April 2005
The Seven Year Suit; Also, Lynne Stewart’s Conviction
March 2005
Legalizing Gay Marriage In NYC
February 2005
Death Penalty
January 2005
Looking On The Hopeful Side For 2005
November 2004
Equal Benefits Law; Hearing Into Police Activity During Convention; New Sexual Harassment Charges in the City Council
October 2004
The Post-Convention State of Dissent in New York
September 2004
Protests; Mayor Rejects Shareholder Power; Anti-Bullying Bill Vetoed; Accessible Taxis
August 2004
Council Leads on Some Civil Rights Issues, Finesses Others
July 2004
Lagging Behind In The Fight For Gay Rights
June 2004
12,000 NYC Taxis; Five Are Accessible
May 2004
The Fast-Changing Status of Same-Sex Married Couples in New York
April 2004
The Right of Religious Groups to Discriminate
March 2004
Bill of Rights Resolution; Court Ruling On Banning Masked Demonstrators
February 2004
Debating the USA Patriot Act. Also: The Proposed Marriage Amendment To The Constitution
January 2004
Civil Rights Bills. Also: The Effect Of Gay-Marriage Ruling on NY
December 2003
Discrimination After 9/11; Also: Bill On Domestic Partnership Benefits
November 2003
Bias Violence On Staten Island
October 2003
Employing Non-Citizens
September 2003
The Harvey Milk School
August 2003
Gay Rights Advances
July 2003
Reactions to Police Killings of Unarmed Black New Yorkers. Also: Push to Repeal Patriot Act; Bishop Paul Moore
June 2003
Anti-Bullying Bills. Also: Push To Post Human Rights; Same-Sex Partner As Legal Spouse
May 2003
New York Coalition Formed to Defend the Bill of Rights
April 2003
Restricting Demonstrations
March 2003
Controversy at the Human Right Commission
February 2003
The Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act took so long to be voted on by the state legislature – 31 years! -- that the new law, Andy Humm writes, “is outdated and incomplete.” Also: Is There A Civil Rights Rollback? Survey Of Anti-Arab Discrimination.
January 2003
December 2002
The New Commissioners
November 2002
Discrimination at Brooklyn Eatery
October 2002
Civil Liberties since 9/11
9/11 Special
Feminist Summit
August 2002
The State and Human Rights
July 2002
The Disabled
June 2002
May 2002
The New Human Rights Commissioner
April 2002
Trying To Reverse the Decline Of The Human Rights Commission; Louima Convictions Overturned; The Death Of Sylvia Rivera
March 2002
St. Patrick's Day Parade
February 2002
The Civil Rights Agendas in 2002
January 2002
Under Assault And On The Ballot
October 2001
Asian New Yorkers
September 2001
Anti-Catholicism
August 2001
Transgender Rights
July 2001
Community Development
Gold from the Faucet
May 2009
Saving Stores
March 2009
Hatching New Enterprises
February 2009
Community Development
Greening Harlem
November 2008
Community Development
Sustainability in the South Bronx
August 2008
The Co-op Revival
May 2008
Placing Workers, Helping Employers
April 2008
Community Development
Fighting Foreclosure
March 2008
Community Development
Harnessing Change in Bed-Stuy
November 2007
Community Development
Housing and Neighborhoods – An Online Chat
October 2007
Community Development
Bigger Media, Less Democracy
February 2007
Community Development
Tax Breaks For Affordable Housing
December 2006
Community Development
New Bills – The 421-a and Affordable Housing Debate
December 2006
Stuyvesant Town, Queens West And The Debate Over Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
November 2006
BIDS
October 2006
Can Small Stores Survive in New York?
October 2006
Immigrant Organizing
April 2006
Redefining Economic Development
February 2006
Community Development Television
November 2005
Campaign 2005: Real Estate Boom; Corporate Developments; Immigrant Entrepreneurs.
September 2005
Block Parties, Street Fairs, Street Festivals
August 2005
Neighborhood Banking Is About To Change
June 2005
Community Development Funding Cuts Under The New Bush Budget
March 2005
Evicting The Vendors From The Bed-Stuy Market
January 2005
Community Development Under A Kerry Administration
October 2004
Opportunity Zones: An Empty OZ
September 2004
Community-Based Cooperatives
July 2004
Mobilizing Community Concerns Against Mobile Phone Antennas
May 2004
Public Subsidies Flowing Up the West Side
April 2004
Grassroots Community Organizing Is Malnourished
February 2004
Is Washington Looking To Get Out Of Subsidizing Low-Income Housing In NYC?
January 2004
The “Food Justice” Movement: Trying To Break the Food Chains
December 2003
November 2003
The Foundation Fundraising Blues
October 2003
The Death of the Community Reinvestment Act
August 2003
The Black Organizer Blues
July 2003
Trade Union/Public Housing Alliance; Reaction to Rezoning Of Brooklyn Waterfront; New Neighborhood Planning
June 2003
Legislating NIMBY
May 2003
BAM And Its Cultural District
April 2003
Crime
From Jail to Upper Manhattan
June 2009
Justice Denied
April 2009
A Renewed Effort to 'Drop' New York's Drug Laws
February 2009
The President's Prosecutors
October 2008
Crime
Cutting Prisoners, Keeping Prisons
June 2008
Crime
The Cost of Counterfeits
March 2008
The Murky World of Police and Informants
February 2008
Fighting Whistlers and Flashers
January 2008
Crime
Who’s Stopped? Who’s Frisked?
December 2007
The Fight Against Drunk Driving
November 2007
A Modern Slavery
October 2007
Crime
The Brave New World of Ticket Sales
July 2007
Taking Aim at Illegal Guns
July 2007
Crime
The Move to Expand DNA Testing
May 2007
Auxiliary Police
March 2007
Crime
Cell Phones To The Rescue
February 2007
Juvenile Injustice
January 2007
Crime
Bell
December 2006
Crime
After Prison
November 2006
Crime
Bias Murder -- The Death Of Michael Sandy In Context
October 2006
Mayor's Summit On Illegal Guns
May 2006
Crime
Budget: More Cops, More Surveillance; Less Crime?
April 2006
Crime
Terror, Not Terrorism
March 2006
The State Of the City's Crime Fighting
February 2006
Cop Killings -- Will The New Laws Do Any Good?
January 2006
High Profile Crimes Post Election
December 2005
Gun Control And The New Federal Law Shielding Gun Manufacturers From Lawsuits
November 2005
Death Penalty, NYC Style
October 2005
Rockefeller Drug Law Reform?
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Crime Declines, Public Safety Worries Continue
August 2005
Youth Justice Board -- Teenagers Studying (Not Committing) Crime
July 2005
Does Kendra's Law Work?
June 2005
Frozen Pay, Heated Rhetoric
May 2005
Abandoned Babies
April 2005
Protecting Whistleblowers: The New York City False Claims Act
March 2005
Home Invasion Robberies
February 2005
Rockefeller Drug Law Reform and Drug Courts
January 2005
Battling Gun Violence In The Streets And In The Courts
December 2004
Murdering Women
November 2004
Strip Searches
October 2004
Police Killed With Their Own Guns
September 2004
Operation Safe Housing
August 2004
The Stolen Lives Project
July 2004
Police Whistleblowers
June 2004
FDNY vs. NYPD
May 2004
Crime
Questioning Police Statistics For Crime and Cases Of Misconduct
April 2004
Crime
Aftermath of the Stansbury Killing
March 2004
Operation Impact And The Shooting Of Timothy Stansbury, Jr.
February 2004
Civil Liberties And Police Surveillance
January 2004
After Rikers
December 2003
Bank Robberies On the Rise
November 2003
The Racial Profiling Settlement
October 2003
Murder in City Hall
July 2003
Blackface Parodists Win In Court; Cops vs. Firefighters; Still No Dancing Allowed
July 2003
Things Go Seriously Wrong: Police Issue Report On Harlem Raid, Lemrick Nelson Gets Off Lightly, Murder Is Up Again. Also: Police Spying
June 2003
Murder and Rape On The Rise; A Look At Nightclub Mayhem
May 2003
The 9/11 Killer; The Public Hearings On 9/11; Moynihan On Government Secrecy
April 2003
The Anti-War Protest And The Police
March 2003
The District Attorney vs. the Police
February 2003
Julia Vitullo-Martin details the new effort by the police department to spy on New Yorkers. Also: Why should crime continue an 11-year decline in New York when it is on the rise elsewhere? And: the governor's Christmas clemencies.
January 2003
Vitullo-Martin
December 2002
Old Issues Are New Again: Parole, Central Park Jogger Case, Rape
November 2002
Two Heinous Crimes Unresolved
October 2002
9/11/01-02: Are New Yorkers Any Safer?
9/11 Special
Police Pay: What's Fair?
September 2002
Capital Punishment, Parole, And More
August 2002
Drug Law Reform Failed Again
July 2002
Operation Spotlight, etc.
June 2002
Back To The Bad Old Days?
May 2002
Aiming High-Tech, Ivy Recruitment
April 2002
Cutbacks and Checkpoints
March 2002
Crown Heights
February 2002
Crime Still Declines, But Why, And Will It Continue?
January 2002
New And Old Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
December 2001
Police Vs. Fire
November 2001
Making New York Safer, Not Slower and Poorer
October 2001
Security
September 2001
Jailing Demonstrators. Also: Police-Community Relations
August 2001
Police Potpourri: Murder, Drag Racing Down; Mayor's Dander Up; Desk Appearance Tickets Disappear; Council Speaker Swept In A Sweep; Condor Defended
July 2001
Marijuana
June 2001
Sanctioning Police Malpractice
May 2001
Presidential Pardons
April 2001
Comissioner Bernard Kerik and the three priorities
March 2001
Lessons and Legacy of Amadou Diallo
February 2001
School safety
December 2000
Election Special: Who's Tougher on Crime?
October 2000
Kerik's Recipe for Success
September 2000
National Night Out and Community Policing
August 2000
Red Hook Community Justice Center
July 2000
NYPD vs. Civil Rights Commission
June 2000
Stop-and-Frisk Searches
May 2000
Operation Condor
April 2000
DNA Redux
March 2000
Repeat Offenders
January 2000
City Journal
December 1999
What Goes In Must Come Out
November 1999
Strip Searches
0000
Demographics
Documenting the Undocumented
June 2009
New York and the 2010 Census
February 2009
A Permanent Democratic Majority?
November 2008
Demographics
Voting in New Rent Controls?
October 2008
Demographics
Changes Come to Harlem
August 2008
Harlem's Shifting Population
August 2008
The Elementary School Divide
June 2008
Affordable Housing -- An Oxymoron?
May 2008
City of God?
February 2008
The City vs. the Census
December 2007
The End of ‘White Flight’?
November 2007
Feeling the Effects of a Housing Bust
September 2007
No Quick Riches for New York’s Twentysomethings
June 2007
Women of New York City
March 2007
The Idle Rich
November 2006
Demographics
Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Then and Now
September 2006
What New Yorkers Are Like Now – First Results of the American Community Survey
August 2006
Demographics
Hitting the 9 Million Mark
June 2006
New York's Asians
May 2006
Undocumented Immigrants
April 2006
Transit Workers/Transit Riders; Rich Lawyers; 9 Million New Yorkers?
March 2006
Teachers In NYC's Institutions Of Higher Learning
January 2006
Hispanics and the Ferrer Candidacy
December 2005
Disabled in New York City; Also: Is The City Still Booming?
November 2005
Who Can Afford to Live in New York City?
October 2005
Can NYC “Profile” Young Muslim Males?
August 2005
Upstate And Downstate – Differing Demographics, Continuing Conflicts
July 2005
Living at Home After College
June 2005
Four Trends That Shape The City's Political Landscape
May 2005
High School Students
April 2005
New York’s Responders and Protectors
March 2005
Who Got The Death Penalty
February 2005
Wall Street Bonus Babies
January 2005
NEW YORK LAWYERS: A PROFILE
December 2004
Bush Does Better, and Other Election Results In NYC
November 2004
New York's Creative Class
October 2004
Portrait of Same-Sex (Married) Couples
September 2004
New York City Is a Non-Voting Town
August 2004
New York's Divided Afghans
July 2004
Flaws In The New School Tests
June 2004
Why Is There A Plunge In Crime?
May 2004
Estimating New York City's Population
April 2004
The Passion for Religion Ebbs
March 2004
Imprisoned In New York
February 2004
Who Are NYC's Republicans?
January 2004
Five Hidden Facts About Housing (An Analysis Of Data From The Housing and Vacancy Survey)
December 2003
Young, Graduated and in New York City
October 2003
Back To (Public and Private) School
September 2003
Counting Drop-Outs
August 2003
The Vanishing Jews
July 2003
The Affluent Of Manhattan
June 2003
How Different Is New York City From The United States?
May 2003
The Poor In New York City
April 2003
Eight Million New Yorkers? Don't Count On It
March 2003
Does Archie Bunker Still Live in Queens?
February 2003
Is There Still A New York Metropolis?
January 2003
Andy Beveridge gives a new portrait of foreign-born New Yorkers, based on newly released census results. Also: the census bureau starts defining what white means.
December 2002
Can The US Live Without Race?
November 2002
New York's Declining Ethnics
October 2002
A Demographic Portrait Of The Victims In 10048
September 2002
Manhattan Boom
August 2002
GOP Senate Majority Repeals Census 2000
July 2002
Changing New York City
June 2002
The Census Bureau's Bad Estimates
May 2002
The Boom 1990's?
April 2002
Segregation
March 2002
Non-Legal Immigrants
February 2002
Counting Muslims
January 2002
The Arab Americans In Our Midst
September 2001
A White City Council
August 2001
Counting Gay New York
July 2001
Redistricting
June 2001
Politics And The Undercount
May 2001
False Facts About Census 2000
April 2001
Eight Million New Yorkers!
March 2001
How many New Yorkers consider themselves multiracial? When the Census Bureau releases the first detailed results from Census 2000 in March we will begin to find out.
February 2001
Census Bureau Finds 830,000 "Extra" New Yorkers
January 2001
The Census
December 2000
Census Slackers
June 2000
New Vacancy Survey Data
May 2000
Welfare Reform's Aftermath
March 2000
In The News: Looking Ahead
January 2000
NYC's Latest Figures
December 1999
Albanian Immigrants
November 1999
Economy
Jobless in New York
June 2009
Economy
The Obama Stimulus: An $825 Billion First Step
January 2009
Economy
From Wall Street to Taxi Stand: The Recession Trickles Down
December 2008
New York After the Meltdown
November 2008
Financial Fiasco
September 2008
Where the City Can Find $200 Million
July 2008
More Losses than Katrina
March 2008
How to Stimulate Spending
January 2008
Could Wall Street’s Woes Be Good for New York?
December 2007
Wall Street’s Binge, Workers’ Hangover
November 2007
Neighborhoods and the Fiscal Boom
August 2007
Income Numbers Show a Changing City
June 2007
Economy
Behind The Low Unemployment Rate
May 2007
Economy
Jittery Wall Street, Calm City?
April 2007
Education
Debating Mayoral Control
May 2009
The Mayor's High Stakes Test
April 2009
The Foreign Language Gap
April 2009
Church, State and School
March 2009
Education
High-Stakes Test
November 2008
Classroom Crunch
September 2008
Education
A School for Jacob Cisco
August 2008
Education
The Autism Gap
June 2008
Education
Anger, Accusations Greet Budget Cuts
May 2008
A New Age at the Library
May 2008
Education
Reading, Writing -- and Running?
March 2008
Education
Controlling the Schools
February 2008
Teaching Kids About Sex
October 2007
Bringing Diversity to New York Elite High Schools
August 2007
Education
Poor Grades for a School ‘Contract’
July 2007
Education
Reorganizing the Schools (Again)
January 2007
Military Recruiters In High Schools
January 2007
The Last Word in School Funding?
November 2006
Education
Special Ed: Needs Improvement
October 2006
Education
Is Homework Necessary? Also: A Truce Over Teaching Math
September 2006
The Padlocked Playgrounds
August 2006
Power Shifts To The Principals
July 2006
Giving Principals More Control
June 2006
Hanging Up on Parents?
May 2006
Buildings, But How About Books?
April 2006
In Defense Of Big Schools
March 2006
New Schedule Sends Parents Scrambling
February 2006
Improving School Food
January 2006
School Choice, School Confusion
November 2005
The School Admissions Scramble
October 2005
The New New Math -- and The Old, Old Debate Over It
September 2005
Campaign 2005: After Mayoral Control, Rivals Call For More Changes
August 2005
Setbacks and Successes for Education Councils
July 2005
The 2006 Budget
June 2005
Money, Class Size and Mayoral Politics
May 2005
Teaching Fellows Make Their Mark
May 2005
Cell Phone Ban; Special Ed in Middle Schools
April 2005
Entering the Autonomy Zone; Poll on Schools
March 2005
The Latest Round on School Funding
February 2005
Real School Pests; School Funding
January 2005
Overcrowding Squeezes Learning; Also the Great Toilet Paper Debate
December 2004
Why City Students Don’t Learn Science
November 2004
Student Drug Use; Also: Middle School Confusion
October 2004
School Funding and the Special Masters
September 2004
Cloning A Charter School From Connecticut
August 2004
School Trips Go Commercial
July 2004
Flaws In The High School Admission Process
June 2004
Teaching Certificates Are Tougher To Get
May 2004
Will Third Graders Learn More Now?
April 2004
Adult Education Cuts
March 2004
Ending Social Promotion, Once Again
February 2004
New York's Children Left Behind?
January 2004
School Contracts: Do They Serve The Students?
December 2003
The New High Schools Admissions Process
November 2003
Class Size Limited By Law?
October 2003
Education
Judging School Reform
September 2003
Education
High School Push Outs
August 2003
Gearing Up For The Changes
July 2003
The School-Funding Victory
June 2003
Mayor's Education Plan Challenged; Also: School-Funding Case Continues
June 2003
Proposed Changes In Special Education
May 2003
Making The List
April 2003
The Governor's Proposed Budget And Its Effect On NYC Schools
March 2003
Shaking Up the School System
February 2003
Educating students with disabilities continues to be one of the public schools' biggest challenges – in part, according to a new report, because the school system is sabotaging its own policies. Jessica Wolff explains.
January 2003
December 2002
The new federal law, entitled No Child Left Behind, "sets welcome goals for the New York public schools," Jessica Wolff writes. "Yet, as the law goes into effect and details emerge, many New York City educators, advocates and parents have started to doubt
November 2002
Chancellor Klein So Far
October 2002
Chancellor Klein's Right-Hand Woman: Who is Diana Lam?
September 2002
The New Chancellor
August 2002
Albany's Sway Over City Schools
July 2002
School Deals Near
June 2002
Community School Boards' Uncertain Future
May 2002
To Test or Not To Test?
April 2002
In a school system whose resources are severely strained to provide an adequate education to children with average needs whose chances of graduating from high school are about 50-50, children with special needs face considerably worse odds of receiving qu
December 2001
The Edison Schools Controversy
February 2001
Environment
Eye on Albany: Bottle Bill Bottleneck
June 2009
Environment
Staten Island's Toxic Stew
May 2009
Environment
The Brooklyn-Queens Border: As Polluted as Ever
May 2009
Cleaning Up the Port
April 2009
Environment
Clean-Up Money
March 2009
Environment
The Gas Rush
January 2009
Obama, Climate Change and New York
December 2008
The Forgotten Crisis?
October 2008
Environment
Cutting the Soot
July 2008
Celebrating Bike Month
May 2008
Making Black Cars Green
April 2008
Environment
Clean Up on the Seas
March 2008
Environment
What's Next for Congestion Pricing?
January 2008
Environment
A Garbage Plan
January 2008
Recycling Stops and Starts
January 2008
The 'Nalgene' Threat
December 2007
Environment
Breathing Easier in 2030 and Beyond
November 2007
Environment
Good News About Asthma
October 2007
Environment
How Clean (or Dirty) Is Our Air?
September 2007
Environment
Latest Round in the Garbage Wars
June 2007
Environment
Going Green, Saving Green
May 2007
Energy-Efficient Appliances
December 2006
Green Construction
October 2006
Environment
Noise In New York
August 2006
Environment
Off the Farm and Into the Faucet
June 2006
Harvesting the Rain
May 2006
Green Is Gold (Though Not Yet In NYC)
April 2006
Wind Power In NYC
March 2006
Erin Brockovich in Greenpoint
February 2006
Online Shopping And Its Impact On The Environment
January 2006
Bio-diesel -- petroleum with...vegetable oil
December 2005
Cool(er) Roofs
October 2005
Wetland Restoration in Jamaica Bay: Will Katrina Threaten Its Funding?
September 2005
Campaign 2005: The Mayoral Candidates’ Views On Water Quality, Solid Waste, and Sustainability
August 2005
Hybrid Vehicles
July 2005
RECYCLING
June 2005
Putting A Price On Street Trees
May 2005
Taking on Carbon Dioxide In Defiance Of Bush; Also, Tracking Detectors For Carbon Monoxide
April 2005
Indicting To Clean Up Newton Creek; Also, Diesel Deaths
March 2005
Pataki Turns Green; Tsunami Speculation
January 2005
Saving Two Birds; Saving Staten Island
December 2004
Saving Oakland Lake
November 2004
The New Garbage Plan; New Worries About Flooding
October 2004
Recycling Food Waste
September 2004
Urban Forestry's New York City Roots
August 2004
Monitoring City Beaches
July 2004
Littering On Staten Island
June 2004
Dreaming Of A Jets Stadium (And Junkyard Cleanup) In Queens
May 2004
Recycling's Next Chapter
April 2004
Taking Action On Jamaica Bay
March 2004
Sludge and Scandal
February 2004
The Feds And Clean Air
January 2004
Carbon Monoxide, The Silent Killer
December 2003
Stopping The Truckers From Idling At Hunts Point
November 2003
Siting The Power Plant at Newtown Creek
October 2003
The Alarming Report About The EPA’s Response To 9/11
September 2003
Environmental Impact of Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
August 2003
Recycling Revived
July 2003
Suburban Sprawl, City Troubles
June 2003
A Letter About Lead Poisoning
May 2003
Recycling Hangs Tough
April 2003
The City's New Spending Plan For The Environment
March 2003
New Plan to Safeguard New York's Water Supply
February 2003
The Battles Of 2003
January 2003
December 2002
The Elections and New York's Environment
November 2002
After Fresh Kills
April 2001
Turbine Turmoil
January 2001
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Amid Fireworks, the Senate Stalemate Continues
July 2009
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Jobless in New York
June 2009
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The Next Foreclosure Crisis?
June 2009
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Doling Out Pork
June 2009
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Stonewall Revisited
June 2009
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From Jail to Upper Manhattan
June 2009
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The Citizen: Sotomayor's Impact
June 2009
Zoning Scam
May 2009
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Debating Mayoral Control
May 2009
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The Bailout Nobody Loves
May 2009
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Lights, Action, Tax Credit
May 2009
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Going to Jail, Losing a Child
April 2009
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Breaking the Feast or Famine Tax Cycle
April 2009
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Saving Stores
March 2009
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Learning English in City Schools
March 2009
Cutting Back Democracy?
March 2009
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
March 2009
Immigrants in Hard Times
February 2009
A Budget Expert Looks at the Numbers
February 2009
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Finding the Money
February 2009
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Congestion Pricing Plan
February 2009
Outrage over Arrests
February 2009
fea
How to Balance the State Budget
February 2009
fea
Scaling Back Free Parking Privileges
January 2009
fea
The Gas Rush
January 2009
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Renaming New York's Strait
January 2009
fea
Predicting 2009
December 2008
fea
Paying for the MTA
December 2008
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The Citizen
December 2008
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Looking for Stimulus Money
November 2008
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The Other Power Shift
November 2008
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And the Winner Is ...
October 2008
Strings Attached
October 2008
Brooklyn's Shopping Boom
October 2008
Comparing Proposals on Term Limit
October 2008
Going for Three
October 2008
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Immigrants and the Election
September 2008
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Financial Fiasco
September 2008
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Take Three
September 2008
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Vanishing Culture
September 2008
Responding to Air Quality
September 2008
The Rush to Rebuild
September 2008
2008 Primary Results
September 2008
Fiterman Hall
September 2008
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Meeting the Gray Wave
September 2008
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A Longtime Incumbent Faces Another Challenger
September 2008
10th Senate District (Queens)
September 2008
16th State Sentate (Queens)
September 2008
42nd State Assembly Distrcit (Brooklyn)
September 2008
The GOP's Last Stand?
August 2008
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The 80-Calorie Chocolate Doughnut
August 2008
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Composting in the City
July 2008
Signs of Slippage in New York
July 2008
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A Battle Over Reform in Manhattan and Brooklyn
July 2008
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Waste Not, Why Not?
July 2008
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Challenging Silver
June 2008
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In the Heights
June 2008
Another Special Election
June 2008
Greening the 'Highway to Nowhere'
May 2008
Citywide Shape Up?
May 2008
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Church and (Real) Estate
May 2008
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Grading New York's Public School
May 2008
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A More Secure Way to Feed to City
April 2008
Blocking the Sun: Solar in the City
April 2008
Reclaiming the City's Abandoned Land
April 2008
An Unknown Urban Forest
April 2008
Cleaning Up a Creek
April 2008
A Non-Renewable Resource
April 2008
Why a Bioheat Mandate?
April 2008
How to Fix Our Transportation Woes -- Without the Fee
April 2008
Delayed -- Not Dead
April 2008
Clearing New York City Streets
April 2008
Looking at Bias
March 2008
After the Crane Collapse
March 2008
Shuffling Senior Services
March 2008
Pushcart Wars
March 2008
The Great TV Turnover
February 2008
Ideas for '08
February 2008
Bringing Insurance to Small Business
February 2008
Punishing Times in School
February 2008
It's Your Party - and You're Stuck with It
January 2008
The Ferry Point Fiasco
January 2008
An Environmentalist's Wish List for 2008
January 2008
A Simpler Alternative to Congestion Pricing
January 2008
Next Year's Top Stories?
December 2007
Who’s Stopped? Who’s Frisked?
December 2007
Tackling E-Waste
December 2007
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Report Cards Flunk the Clarity Test
November 2007
Testing Fails the Arts
November 2007
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The Fight Against Drunk Driving
November 2007
Censored by Verizon
October 2007
Good News About Asthma
October 2007
fea
Adding Up: How Much Member's Spend on Ads?
October 2007
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A Modern Slavery
October 2007
Empty Sandboxes
September 2007
Too Few Jobs for Youth
September 2007
A Fair Deal for The New Workforce
September 2007
A Failure to Communicate
August 2007
Lessons from Deutsche Bank
August 2007
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State of Cycling
August 2007
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Bringing Diversity to New York Elite High Schools
August 2007
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A Divided Council Confronts Congestion Pricing
August 2007
Quinn’s Rule
July 2007
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Keeping Felons from Voting
July 2007
Moving Ahead on Immigration Reform?
July 2007
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Items
June 2007
Dividing the Wealth: Who Gets the Council’s Discretionary Funds?
June 2007
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Latest Round in the Garbage Wars
June 2007
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What the Campaign Finance Bill Would Do – and Not Do
June 2007
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May 2007
The Move to Expand DNA Testing
May 2007
Behind The Low Unemployment Rate
May 2007
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Data to the People
May 2007
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Catching Up On Recycle
April 2007
Noxious New York,
April 2007
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A ‘Customer’ Survey for the City
April 2007
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Change of Venue In the Sean Bell Case
March 2007
Auxiliary Police
March 2007
AUXILIARY OFFICERS ASSISTANCE PLAN
March 2007
The Price of Progress?
March 2007
Helping Fledgling Families
March 2007
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Nightlife, Pedicabs, and the N-word
March 2007
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City Council’s First Haitian Member
February 2007
GOVERNMENT’S ANNUAL REPORTS
February 2007
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Confronting the Congestion Crisis
February 2007
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Private Partnerships For Public Parks
January 2007
What Will He Do?
January 2007
PREDICTING THE BIG STORIES IN 2007
December 2006
Tough Times for Transit Workers
December 2006
After Prison
November 2006
What Does It Mean for New York?
November 2006
Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses And City Planning Today
November 2006
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Stuyvesant Town, Queens West And The Debate Over Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
November 2006
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City Council State Meeting, Oct. 25, 2006: Economic Incentives, for Council Members and Businesses
October 2006
The Detonators
October 2006
Putting Cars Behind
October 2006
October 2006
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Can Small Stores Survive in New York?
October 2006
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How the Estate Tax Helps New York
September 2006
Fast Track From Poverty?
September 2006
9/11 Health: Help at Last?
September 2006
A Low-Key Race for An Open Seat in Staten Island
August 2006
The 13th Senate District Debate
August 2006
Assembly District 22 (Flushing etc.) Debate Transcript
August 2006
August 2006
Senate 24
August 2006
State Races And Incumbency – How New York Is Not Connecticut
August 2006
Bringing the Money Back from Albany
August 2006
Assembly District 74 Debate Transcript
August 2006
Debating Health, Education, Reform and, Yes, Atlantic Yards, in Central Brooklyn
August 2006
Succeeding Green in Fort Greene – and Beyond
August 2006
NEW PARKS
August 2006
Confronting NYC’s Health Crisis
July 2006
Indefensible
July 2006
Pataki's Legal Legacy
July 2006
The Gay Marriage Ruling
July 2006
Fixing New York's Hidden Government
June 2006
A Unique Time And Place
June 2006
PICKING SUPREME COURT JUDGES IN NEW YORK
May 2006
Giving Voters Real Choices
May 2006
Selecting the Most Qualified Judges
May 2006
Conventions Create A Diverse Judiciary
May 2006
President George W. Bush
May 2006
Immigrants Photo Essay
May 2006
Cleaner Fuel, Cheaper Fuel
May 2006
Mafia: Rise, Fall and Resurgence
May 2006
The City’s Resistance to Cutting Class Size
April 2006
Finding Space for a Million More New Yorkers
April 2006
Harlem's Heyday
April 2006
Rockefeller Drug Laws: An Ex-Prisoners View
March 2006
The Rockefeller Drug Laws: A Prosecutor’s Perspective
March 2006
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Behind the Dropout Rat
March 2006
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Regulating Rickshaws
March 2006
Keeping New Teachers From Dropping Out
February 2006
The Works: Anatomy of a City
February 2006
State Of The Neighborhood
January 2006
January 2006
Rating the City
January 2006
Keeping the Economy Growing
January 2006
A School Spending Plan
January 2006
More for Human Services
January 2006
Segregated Schools: Shame of The City
January 2006
State of the State Governor George Pataki January 4, 2006
January 2006
The Assembly Majority Response to the State of the State Address
January 2006
Pater Vallone
January 2006
Transit Strike
December 2005
What Will the Big Stories Be in the New Year?
December 2005
The Need for Healthier Schools
December 2005
Transcript
November 2005
Speaker Candidates Speak
November 2005
Ed Koch’s Legacy
November 2005
The Fine Print on the Ballot
November 2005
Transcript of Final 2005 General Election Mayoral Debate -- The Final Debate
November 2005
Ethics Code for Administrative Judges Vote No
October 2005
Ethics Code for Administrative Judges Vote Yes
October 2005
Ethics Code for Administrative Judges
October 2005
Debating Proposition 1
October 2005
Transcript of First 2005 General Election Mayoral Debate
October 2005
Nursing New York City Back to Health
October 2005
Underfunding City University
October 2005
The Transportation Bond Act: Vote Yes
October 2005
The Transportation Bond Act: Vote No
October 2005
How the Irish Built an American Icon
October 2005
Island of Dreams
September 2005
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September 2005
September 2005
Mayoral Debate Transcript - September 8, 2005
September 2005
9/11 Plus Four
September 2005
August 2005
Mayoral Debate Transcript: August 21, 2005
August 2005
St. Stephen's Church -- Will It Ever Be A Landmark?
August 2005
Mayoral Debate Among Democratic Candidates
August 2005
NY's Ports Booming, But High Costs Of Security Are Eroding Gains
August 2005
Saving Staten Island's Showcase
August 2005
Giuliani – Savior Of The City, Or Its Enemy?
August 2005
Mayoral Forum on Poverty
August 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidates on Historic Preservation and Landmarks
August 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidates on Historic Preservation and Landmarks
August 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidates on Historic Preservation and Landmarks
August 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidates on Historic Preservation and Landmarks
August 2005
The Race for Public Advocate
July 2005
Think Locally, Act Regionally
July 2005
A Trust Fund For America
July 2005
Boss Tweed
July 2005
Surrogate's Court And Why It Should Go
July 2005
The Citizen
June 2005
Restoration on Eldridge Street
June 2005
The Real School Security Problem
June 2005
The Lost Children Of Foster Care
June 2005
The Citizen
May 2005
Preserving Social History on Roosevelt Island
May 2005
Charge Or Release!
May 2005
Rethinking Rebuilding
May 2005
That 70s Show
May 2005
The Citizen
May 2005
The Mayoral Candidate on Education
April 2005
Women and Work in New York City
April 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues
April 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues
April 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues
April 2005
Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues
April 2005
The Citizen
April 2005
A Cop Looks Around
March 2005
NYC Jobs: A History
March 2005
Latinos and the Mayor
March 2005
NYC in Fiction
March 2005
The Citizen
February 2005
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The Citizen
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The Citizen
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An Axe Not A Scalpel
February 2004
A Bill That Helps End Lead Poisoning
February 2004
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A Field Of Schemes
January 2004
Netting the Nets
January 2004
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Reflecting Absence, by Michael Arad
January 2004
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Linda Stone Davidoff, 1941-2003
January 2004
The Citizen
January 2004
New Year's Predictions for NYC
December 2003
Lead and Landlords
December 2003
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Club Comeback
November 2003
The 'Tina' Habit
November 2003
Andrew Haswell Green, Shot and Forgot
November 2003
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Fundraising for the Future
November 2003
Yes on 4
October 2003
Ballot Proposals of 2003 (and 2005)
October 2003
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Ballot Proposals of 2003
October 2003
Vote No on Ballot Proposal Number 4
October 2003
Cooking With Gas
October 2003
Learning from L.A.
October 2003
Suing for Gun Control
September 2003
My Own Private Blackout
September 2003
Blackout Revisited
September 2003
Guide to the Last Minute Voter
September 2003
Should Non-Citizens Be Allowed To Vote?
August 2003
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The Power Broker Revisited
August 2003
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Keeping People Out of School
July 2003
Ban Car Alarms!
July 2003
Landlord Court
June 2003
Partisan Man To The Rescue
June 2003
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Subways Are Not For Everyone
April 2003
An Alternative to Suicide By Budget
April 2003
Leaving School
April 2003
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A Western Expert Denies Iraqi Arson In Oil Fields
March 2003
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City Council Or Security Council?
March 2003
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Critiquing Bloomberg's Housing Plan
March 2003
Waterfront Housing For Everyone
March 2003
To Be Young, Gifted and Broke
February 2003
Barred from the Ballot
February 2003
Putting College Out Of Reach
February 2003
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Abortion In New York
January 2003
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2003 State of the State Address
January 2003
Bush Plan Doesn't Add Up
January 2003
How Should the City Close It's $5 Billion Budget Deficit?
January 2003
2003 Economic Stimulus Plan
January 2003
Mark Green, former public advocate and former Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, explains what he thinks Mayor Michael Bloomberg should have done to avoid the city’s current fiscal crisis, and what he (and other officials) can still do to solve it.
December 2002
Is Gangs of New York Historically Accurate?
December 2002
Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan that would create more housing than the city has built at any time since the 1980s, as Rebecca Webber reports in the Housing Topic Pa
December 2002
Read "A Show of Respect Can Avert A Transit Strike" by Robert Snyder.
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Gotham at War
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"I am a guy who is about good news and bad news," writes Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. "The good news is, I will empower you. The bad news is, if you screw up, I will fire you." The goal of this approach: to "break a little china," he says, and bring swe
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Have Tax, Will Travel
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Getting Control
June 2002
Money, Not Mayors
May 2002
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Naming for Dollars
May 2002
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The New York State Legislature: How Albany Controls the City
January 2001
Polling Hell
October 2000
Best Books About New York
September 2000
Community Planning Boards
September 2000
Term Limits
September 2000
City Council Senior Class
August 2000
Rats: Pest or Pet?
July 2000
Free Sleep
July 2000
What Government Does Well/What Government Does Badly
June 2000
New York City Council Term Limits Chart
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The Coming Fiscal Crunch
June 2009
The Mayor's Tax Plan
May 2009
Mysteries of the Property Tax
April 2009
How to Plug the Growing Budget Gap
March 2009
Finding the Money
February 2009
Finance
The Bad News Gets Worse
January 2009
Rating Government Spending
December 2008
Finance
The Mayor’s Strategy
November 2008
The Great Tax Debate
October 2008
Finance
Looking for Accountability
September 2008
Finance
In the Face of Fiscal Uncertainty, the City Stays Calm
August 2008
Budget Winners and Losers
July 2008
The Politics of Surpluses
June 2008
Keeping an Eye on City Spending
May 2008
Hard Times, Easy Budget
April 2008
Tough Budget Choices
March 2008
Prescriptions for Tougher Times
February 2008
The High Cost of Lost Taxes
February 2008
A Bleaker Outlook for 2008
January 2008
After the ‘Financial Emergency’
December 2007
Managing Billions in City Contracts
November 2007
The Mayor Offers a Barrage of Numbers
October 2007
Reviewing Federal and City Tax Cuts
September 2007
Looking at the Four-Year Financial Plan
August 2007
Mixed News in a ‘Good News’ Budget
July 2007
Questions Remain About the 2008 Budget
June 2007
Fiscal Impacts of PlaNYC 2030
May 2007
The Many Ways to Spell ‘Tax Relief”
April 2007
Tax Cuts For Tenants And Other Budget Debates
March 2007
Tax-And-Spend No More
February 2007
Tax Cuts
January 2007
Property Tax Reform -- NOT
January 2007
Finance
High Revenue, Obscure Spending
December 2006
Finance
Hundreds Of Millions Of New Dollars To New York?
November 2006
Finance
Using City Tax Policy To Help The Working Poor
October 2006
The Mayor's Legacy: Educational Improvements and Poverty Reduction, Or Bold Budgeting and Economic Development
September 2006
After The Adopted Budget, Some Tinkering
August 2006
2007 Budget Has a Familiar Look
July 2006
Building Stadiums, Losing Revenue
June 2006
2007 Executive Budget -- The Mayor Expands His Budget Powers
May 2006
Brighter Budget = Unique Opportunity
April 2006
Finance
Hiding Behind the Numbers
March 2006
Finance
The Mayor’s Underwhelming Budget For 2007
February 2006
Happy New Year Budget
January 2006
Good News For The Budget, For Now
December 2005
Tax Reform In Bloomberg’s Second Term?
November 2005
Finance
Mayor’s Management Report for 2005: Thinner, Less Useful
October 2005
Finance
Ballot Proposal (And Candidate Suggestions) 30 Years After Near-Bankruptcy
September 2005
Campaign 2005: 10 Budget Choices Facing The Next Mayor
August 2005
$50 Billion Budget -- A Shortsighted Use Of Surpluses
July 2005
Budget Transparency After The West Side Stadium
June 2005
The Mayor’s Budget Has No Big Ideas; The Council’s Does
May 2005
State Budget, On Time But Imperfect. Also – City Budget; City Performance
April 2005
The Social Security Debate
March 2005
State Debt + Federal Debt = City Budget Trouble
February 2005
Good News, Bad News
January 2005
A New Stadium Authority Will Add to City Budget Woes
December 2004
Fiscal Monitors Check And Balance The Mayor
November 2004
Finance
The Mayor’s Management Report Skimps On Information About Education And Everything Else
October 2004
Finance
The Mayor's West Side Gamble
September 2004
Big Trouble Ahead, Say Budget Monitors
August 2004
Small Victories, Big Questions In The New Budget
July 2004
The Mayor’s Latest Budget: Political Expediency, Future Deficits
May 2004
The City Council's Alternative Budget Choices
April 2004
Budget Surplus Obscures Uncertainties
March 2004
A Budget With No Soul
February 2004
Bush Tax Cuts and New York
January 2004
The City Modifies Its Budget and Searches for Cash
December 2003
Finance
Lessons From the Voters and the Comptroller
November 2003
Finance
Shrinking Accountability: Proposed Changes To The Mayor's Management Report
October 2003
Three Actions By Governor Pataki That Dim City Budget Prospects
September 2003
The Fiscal Monitors Assess The Budget
August 2003
Summing Up the 2004 Budget; Looking Ahead in Education
July 2003
The City Budget: Avoiding Fiscal Meltdown
June 2003
The MTA's Funny Numbers And Smug Attitude
May 2003
Renters and The New Property Tax Hikes
April 2003
Uncertain Billions In Mayor's Budget Plan
March 2003
Preliminary Budget Seeks to Avoid Spending Cuts
February 2003
Billion Dollar Questions About Next Year's Budget
January 2003
Pasanen
December 2002
The Property Tax Proposal
November 2002
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Balance: The Budget Game
February 2009
The Budget Maze
May 2008
The Garbage Glut
November 2007
NYC Preservation Game
October 2005
Budget Quiz
July 2005
Campaign 2005 Quiz
June 2005
Voting Records Quiz
April 2005
September 2004
August 2004
June 2004
March 2004
December 2003
The Judges Game
August 2003
The Tour Guides Quiz
July 2003
Transportation in New York Quiz
June 2003
The Budget Game
May 2003
NYC Housing Trivia Quiz
February 2003
City Hall Quiz
January 2003
Rebuilding NYC's Ground Zero Planner
July 2002
Gotham Gazette's Summer Quiz
July 2001
Gotham Gazette's Interactive Quiz
March 2001
Health
Can HHC Be Saved?
May 2009
Health
Crafting a City Food Policy
March 2009
The Candidates' Prescriptions
October 2008
Health
Responding to Air Quality
September 2008
Health
The 80-Calorie Chocolate Doughnut
August 2008
Health
Rating Health Care Behind Bars
June 2008
Health
Putting Bodegas on a Diet
March 2008
Health
Health Care Behind Bars
February 2008
Health
Language Barriers at the Drugstore
February 2008
Health
Grading the City's Public Hospitals
October 2007
Health
Insuring New York's Children
September 2007
Health
Aging with AIDS
August 2007
Access to the HPV Vaccine in NYC
July 2007
Health
NYC V. Fast Food
March 2007
Health
In Danger: Men At Work
March 2007
Health
Charting New York’s Health
January 2007
Health
Health Problems Among Caribbean Immigrants
January 2007
Health
TWIN CRISES IN HEALTH CARE
December 2006
Health
The Challenge of Eating Healthy
November 2006
Obesity, Asthma, and Public Health: What Can Planners Do?
November 2006
Hospital Communication
October 2006
Health
9/11 Health: Help at Last?
September 2006
Health
Who Decides When The Patient Can't?
June 2006
Health Insurance -- Looking For A Model
May 2006
Diabetes in NYC
March 2006
A One-Two Punch To Hospitals: The Proposed Federal and State Budgets
February 2006
The Heroes Of 9/11 Are Getting Sick
January 2006
New York And The Bird Flu
November 2005
Health
Providing Fresh Food, and a Sense of Accomplishment
November 2005
Health
Saving Money -- And Saving Patients -- With Technology
October 2005
CAMPAIGN 2005: EXPANDING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
September 2005
Making Medicaid Cheaper
August 2005
AIDS IN NEW YORK CITY
March 2005
The Flu – An Ironic Season
January 2005
The World Trade Center Health Registry
December 2004
Food Borne Illnesses
August 2004
Andtidepressants and Children
June 2004
Smokers Quitting
May 2004
“Take Care New York” New Health Program; Old Diseases
April 2004
Homeless Children and Asthma
March 2004
Death In New York City
February 2004
The New Medicare Law - Will It Help or Hurt?
January 2004
Flu
December 2003
Mentally Ill, Chemically Addicted - And Stuck In Jail
November 2003
A Push For A National Health Service?
October 2003
World Trade Center Health Registry
September 2003
Obesity
August 2003
Court Overturns Current Lead-Paint Law
July 2003
How the 2004 Budget Is Shaking Out for Health Care
June 2003
Survey of Emotional Distress
May 2003
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
April 2003
Diabetes
March 2003
Health Care Changes Could Hurt New York
February 2003
Smallpox Vaccine
January 2003
December 2002
The Brooklyn Mental Health Court
November 2002
Housing
The Next Foreclosure Crisis?
June 2009
A Convenient Foreclosure?
April 2009
New Strategies for Tenants
March 2009
The Condo Glut
February 2009
Rent Control Goes to the Senate
January 2009
Private Methods in Public Projects
December 2008
Voting in New Rent Controls?
October 2008
Prevention is the Best Medicine
September 2008
On Track to Ending Homelessness
September 2008
Handing Out to the Homeless
September 2008
Fighting Homelessness in Miami
September 2008
Getting Families Out of Shelters and Into Homes
September 2008
Still Out on the Streets
September 2008
Cutting Construction Costs
September 2008
Protecting Public Housing
June 2008
From Bad to Worse
May 2008
Avoiding a Foreclosure Crisis
May 2008
A Pro-tenant Governor?
March 2008
Anxiety in the Housing Market
February 2008
Reforming Housing Laws
January 2008
Gains and Losses of 2007
December 2007
Housing as a Human Right
November 2007
Workers Speak Out About Homeless Program
October 2007
Housing and Neighborhoods – An Online Chat
October 2007
Hard Times in the Projects
August 2007
Programs for Safer Homes
July 2007
A Tough Month for Housing Advocates
June 2007
A New Program to Fight Homelessness
May 2007
Predatory Lending Fuels Rise in Foreclosures
April 2007
A Platform to Preserve Housing
March 2007
Housing’s Impact: Need For New Research
February 2007
The New Governor’s Mystery Agenda
January 2007
Housing And The Feds
December 2006
Looking for Government Help on Housing
November 2006
Tenant Organizing For 36 Years
October 2006
Housing Activists’ Fall Agenda
September 2006
Housing
The Homeless Pledge
August 2006
Counting The Empty Buildings
July 2006
Housing
Rising Rents Create Housing Needs
June 2006
Rent Regulation and The Division Of Housing and Community Renewal
May 2006
Housing
Homeless Prevention Programs A Year Later
April 2006
Housing
Subsidized Housing
March 2006
Blacklisting Tenants
February 2006
State Of The City Housing
January 2006
Hallway Settlements In Housing Court
December 2005
Housing Advocacy Wins, With One Exception
November 2005
Subsidizing Slumlords
October 2005
Campaign 2005: Who Would Do More About Homelessness, And For The Homeless?
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Candidates Vie Over Affordable Housing And Homelessness Prevention Plans
August 2005
Homeless Programs That Are Working, So Far
July 2005
The Latest Rent Increases
June 2005
Discrimination In Housing Is Rampant
June 2005
Pushing For A Rent Freeze
May 2005
The Homeless Count
March 2005
Avoiding Eviction; Also, Landlords Lose A Case, Sort Of
February 2005
Repealing the Urstadt Law
January 2005
The City’s New Housing Subsidy
December 2004
The Housing Problems Of Immigrants
November 2004
New Programs Aim To Prevent Homelessness
October 2004
Helping Pay The Rent: Section 8 Saved; Emergency Rent Coalition Created
September 2004
Anti-Tenant Suits By The Housing Authority
August 2004
A Ministry For Affordable Housing
July 2004
Rent Guidelines Board: Will It Hike The Rents?
June 2004
Back To The Fore?
May 2004
Rent Overcharges
April 2004
After Mitchell-Lama
March 2004
Decline In Tenant Organizers
February 2004
The Community Service Requirement In Public Housing
January 2004
"Illegal Threes"
December 2003
"Section 8" And The Single Landlord
November 2003
More Dilapidated Housing, Less Code Enforcement
October 2003
Abandonment In 2003
September 2003
The State Of Bloomberg’s Affordable Housing Plan
August 2003
New Housing Laws
July 2003
The Fate Of Rent Regulation
June 2003
Are Higher Rent Increases Justified By Rising Costs
May 2003
Rent Regulation Awaits Its Fate
April 2003
The State Of NYC Housing, According To The Census Bureau
March 2003
City Takes New Approaches to Solving Homeless Problem
February 2003
Homeowner Troubles
January 2003
Rebecca Webber outlines the mayor’s $3 billion plan to build 65,000 affordable new homes over the next five years.
December 2002
Possible Rise In Property Taxes (i.e. Rents); Rise In Homelessness
November 2002
Immigrants
Fighting Domestic Violence
June 2009
Immigrants
Chinatown Looks for a Way to Survive and Thrive
April 2009
Immigrants
Counting Immigrants -- and Jobs
April 2009
A Mutilating Practice
March 2009
Fading of the Wall Street Dream
February 2009
A New Generation of Asian Leaders
January 2009
Justice to Go
December 2008
Dealing with the Downturn
November 2008
Voting Before Citizenship
September 2008
English Learners Left Behind
August 2008
Immigrants
Translating at Hospitals
July 2008
Immigrants
The Search for Childcare
June 2008
Supporting the Olympics
May 2008
Pre-election Jam
April 2008
Immigrants
Pageant or Propaganda?
March 2008
Immigrants
Trouble on the Immigrant Express
February 2008
Language Barriers at the Drugstore
February 2008
Getting a Higher Education
January 2008
What Three Million Immigrants Do
December 2007
Latest License Plans Angers Almost Everyone
November 2007
Licenses for the Undocumented
October 2007
A City ID Card for All
September 2007
Immersed in English
August 2007
Immigrants
New ID Could Cost Immigrants Their Licenses
July 2007
Immigrants
New Yorkers and the Immigration Bills
June 2007
Immigrants
Immigrant Tenants
April 2007
Immigrants
City Council’s First Haitian Member
February 2007
Immigrants
Health Problems Among Caribbean Immigrants
January 2007
Drivers’ Licenses for Immigrants
January 2007
Small Schools Exclude Many Immigrants
December 2006
Back On The Spotlight
November 2006
Immigrants
Hospital Communication
October 2006
Immigrants
Good Government Speaks Many Languages
October 2006
Foreign, Battered and Denied Aid Unconstitutionally
September 2006
Housing Code Enforcement in Need of Repair
August 2006
Giving the Newest New Yorkers the Vote
July 2006
Regents Exams and English Language Learners
June 2006
Immigrant Services And Their Funding
May 2006
Legalization and De-Legalization
April 2006
Immigration Debate Heats Up in Senate
March 2006
School Translations
February 2006
The DREAM Act and Immigrant Youth
January 2006
The Citizen
November 2005
City Council Passes Bill to Establish Commission on Day Labor Centers
October 2005
Campaign 2005: Much At Stake For Immigrants
September 2005
Interpreters at Poll Site
August 2005
Sreet Vending Licenses
August 2005
Immigration Reform
July 2005
The Education Equality Act
June 2005
Immigrant Family Literacy Program
May 2005
Immigrants and Driver's Licenses
March 2005
Immigrant City
February 2005
Immigrants' Reaction To Tsunami Disaster
January 2005
2004: Shorter Lines, Just As Much Frustration
December 2004
No More Waiting?
August 2004
Regulating Immigration Consultants
July 2004
H-1B Working Visa
June 2004
Deliverymen
May 2004
Unemployed Immigrant Tech Professionals
April 2004
Deporting the “Bad” Immigrant
March 2004
Bush's "Temporary Worker" Program
February 2004
Unpatriotic Banking?
December 2003
The Dream Act
November 2003
A New Executive Order: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
October 2003
New Studies About Immigrants
September 2003
Executive Order 34 Revisited
August 2003
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
July 2003
Trying To Protect Undocumented Immigrants
June 2003
Immigrant Soldiers
May 2003
New Rule For Political Asylum Seekers
March 2003
Tracking Foreign Students
March 2003
The Special Registration Program
February 2003
Ritthichai
December 2002
A New Executive Order:
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After the Deadlne
July 2009
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Bringing Home the Bacon
June 2009
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What About the Issues?
June 2009
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Band-Aid Budget
June 2009
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Who Got What - FY 2010
June 2009
Endangered Community Boards
June 2009
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A New Power in Albany
June 2009
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Toxic Town
May 2009
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Gun Battle
May 2009
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The Underdog
May 2009
Bloomberg's Budget Revival
May 2009
iotw
Justice Denied
April 2009
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The Bronx's Family Feud
April 2009
iotw
A Convenient Foreclosure?
April 2009
iotw
Stealth Budget
March 2009
iotw
The Road to Recovery
March 2009
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Church, State and School
March 2009
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The Council IQ Test
March 2009
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How Upstaters Decide
March 2009
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The Condo Glut
February 2009
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Balance: The Budget Game
February 2009
iotw
Bloomberg's Lament
February 2009
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Plant in the Park
January 2009
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The Obama Stimulus: An $825 Billion First Step
January 2009
How Obama Can Help New York
January 2009
Using This Crisis to Prevent the Next One
January 2009
From Gas Guzzling Cars to Plug-In Busses
January 2009
Infrastructure Investments that Make Sense
January 2009
Paying Attention to Cities
January 2009
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The Democrats Take Albany
January 2009
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New Year Politics
January 2009
Top Stories of 2008
December 2008
iotw
From Wall Street to Taxi Stand: The Recession Trickles Down
December 2008
iotw
Avoiding Charities With Coal-Filled Stockings
December 2008
Budget Battle: Round 1
December 2008
2009 Project Budget Chart
November 2008
iotw
The Public Principles Police
November 2008
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The Council's Income
November 2008
iotw
Guide for the Last Minute Voter
October 2008
iotw
The Forgotten City
October 2008
The Fading of the American Dream
October 2008
Sad Times Call for a Bit of Optimism
October 2008
Beyond the Hype of Change
October 2008
What The Candidates Can't Do
October 2008
Educating Children with Special Needs
October 2008
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Cash Campaigns
October 2008
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The Economic Fallout
October 2008
Earthquake Zone?
September 2008
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Prevention is the Best Medicine
September 2008
On Track to Ending Homelessness
September 2008
Handing Out to the Homeless
September 2008
Fighting Homelessness in Miami
September 2008
Getting Families Out of Shelters and Into Homes
September 2008
Still Out on the Streets
September 2008
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Seven Years Later
September 2008
Reshaping the City
August 2008
A New New Yorker's Guide
August 2008
Finding Your Way Around New York's News
August 2008
August 2008
Invasion of New York
August 2008
When Foster Children Become Pregnant
August 2008
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A Place to Call Home
August 2008
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Beach Guide
July 2008
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A Little Privacy, Please?
July 2008
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Whistle While You Work
July 2008
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Coney Island's Latest Roller Coaster Ride
July 2008
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New York's Best and Worst Beaches
July 2008
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Beachers
July 2008
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Countdown to the Primaries
July 2008
The Council's Capital
July 2008
Who Got What
July 2008
A Bleaker Budget?
June 2008
Campaign 2008
June 2008
A House Divided in Washington Heights
June 2008
A Capital Controversy
June 2008
The Autism Gap
June 2008
New Rights for Incarcerated Youth
June 2008
Cutting Prisoners, Keeping Prisons
June 2008
Taking the Next Steps in Juvenile Justice
June 2008
Looking at Incarceration
June 2008
For Juveniles, Alternatives to Incarceration
June 2008
A Better Budget Outlook… To Some
May 2008
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The Budget Maze
May 2008
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Quinn Tries Again
May 2008
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Promoting Transparency, Protecting Non-Profits
May 2008
Bear News Budget?
May 2008
Real Estate Slump Hits New York
April 2008
Mystery of the Phantom Funds
April 2008
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A Kill Reborn
April 2008
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Musical Chairs: Shuffling Seats in City Government
March 2008
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Congestion Pricing: Stop or Go?
March 2008
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The Paterson Era Begins
March 2008
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Planning for the Deluge
March 2008
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Reading, Writing -- and Running?
March 2008
Beefing Up the Menu
March 2008
Putting Bodegas on a Diet
March 2008
Affordable Greenmarket
March 2008
A Thinner, Fitter City
March 2008
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Prescriptions for Tougher Times
February 2008
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Jim Brennan
February 2008
Preparing Now for Hard Times to Come
February 2008
Melinda Katz
February 2008
Solutions To A Recession
February 2008
David Yassky
February 2008
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Controlling the Schools
February 2008
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Health Care Behind Bars
February 2008
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Urban Issues in the Presidential Campaign
February 2008
Democratic Candidates on the Issues
February 2008
Republican Candidates on the Issues
February 2008
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Budget Blues
January 2008
State of the City
January 2008
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A Garbage Plan
January 2008
Recycling Stops and Starts
January 2008
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Filling New York's 'Vacancies'
January 2008
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City Council's Resolutions
December 2007
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Top Stories of 2007
December 2007
The Big Stories of 2007 that Did Not Happen
December 2007
Feeding the Holiday Economy
December 2007
New York Shopping: Chains and Bargains
December 2007
Blurring the Line Between Government and Charity
December 2007
Where The Funds Stand
December 2007
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November 2007
Pigeons
November 2007
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The Garbage Glut
November 2007
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Guide For The Last Minute Voter, 2007 General Election
November 2007
College Boom
October 2007
Cost of Living Shows No Signs of Stopping
October 2007
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Cleaning Up New York’s Buildings
October 2007
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New Charges of Police Abuse
October 2007
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The Failure of Civilian Oversight
October 2007
Gail's Story
October 2007
A Dwindling Police Presence
October 2007
Stop and Frisk – Who's Being Searched?
October 2007
NYPD Blues
October 2007
Bill
October 2007
A One in Five Shot: Passing City Council Bills
October 2007
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Storm Warnings
September 2007
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Guide for the Last Minute Voter
September 2007
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Insuring New York's Children
September 2007
Will the Sub-Prime Crisis Come Home to Roost in Manhattan?
September 2007
The Real Foreclosure Crisis
September 2007
Worrying About Wall Street
September 2007
New York’s 'Ring of Steel'
September 2007
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August 2007
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Hard Times in the Projects
August 2007
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Crumbling Systems
August 2007
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Police in Schools
July 2007
Taking A.C.T.I.O.N. at The Point
July 2007
Hanging Out and Hurting Business
July 2007
Trying to Break the Cycle of Violence
July 2007
Funding Cuts Threaten After-school Programs
July 2007
Teens in the Streets
July 2007
Compromising on Congestion and Campaign Cash
July 2007
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The Brave New World of Ticket Sales
July 2007
Taking Aim at Illegal Guns
July 2007
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Summer Reading: The Experts Pick Their Favorite Books About New York
July 2007
Summer Reading: Best Books About New York
June 2007
New Books About New York
June 2007
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BUDGET 2007
June 2007
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With Pizza, Pinball and Panache, Boardwalk Vendors Face Changes
June 2007
Change Comes to the City’s Edge
June 2007
Coney Island’s Summer of Reckoning
June 2007
Education’s Difficult Stage
June 2007
Name that Street
May 2007
Breaks for Big Business
May 2007
Reconstructing New York’s Building Code Overhaul
May 2007
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Debating a Greener Future
May 2007
Passing the ‘Do-Ability’ Test
May 2007
Making Growth Work for All New Yorkers
May 2007
What plaNYC Does Not Do
May 2007
Developing Brownfields The Right Way
May 2007
Building In The Wrong Places
May 2007
Waterfront Development or Neighborhood Displacement?
May 2007
On Energy, Consider the Alternatives
May 2007
The Hard Choices Ahead
May 2007
Taking on the Traffic
May 2007
The High Costs of Driving - and Parking
May 2007
Improve Transit Before Congestion Pricing
May 2007
Getting the Most from Congestion Pricing
May 2007
Planning for a Bigger, Greener City
April 2007
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Protecting New York’s Wetlands
April 2007
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Jittery Wall Street, Calm City?
April 2007
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Saving New York’s Middle Class
April 2007
The Council's Budget Response
April 2007
Criminal Justice Under Eliot Spitzer
April 2007
Staten Island’s North Shore: A Heated Three-Way Contest
March 2007
Central Brooklyn: A Not-So-Instant Replay
March 2007
Staten Island’s South Shore: Mulia, Tobacco and Tabacco
March 2007
Voting, Yes. Democracy, Maybe.
March 2007
Government by Contract
March 2007
NYC V. Fast Food
March 2007
BREAKING GROUND
March 2007
Putting Limits On Pay To Pay
February 2007
Is Albany Odious?
February 2007
Special City Council Elections
February 2007
It’s the Development, Stupid on Staten Island
February 2007
Many Issues, Many Nationalities in Central Brooklyn
February 2007
The Battle for Comptroller
February 2007
2008 BUDGET: ROUND ONE
January 2007
Agenda 2007
January 2007
Hillary, Rudy, And George, But Not Mike ( Or So He Says)
January 2007
Cracking Down on Corruption
January 2007
GOVERNOR ELIOT SPITZER
January 2007
Governor Eliot Spitzer's Inaugural Address
January 2007
Top 10 Stories of 2006
December 2006
The Big Stories That Did Not Happen in 2006
December 2006
TWIN CRISES IN HEALTH CARE
December 2006
Bell
December 2006
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The Last Word in School Funding?
November 2006
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The Challenge of Eating Healthy
November 2006
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Hundreds Of Millions Of New Dollars To New York?
November 2006
The Sheriff of State Street
November 2006
AFTER THE ELECTION – WHAT WILL BE DIFFERENT NOW?
November 2006
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Guide for the Last Minute Voter, 2006 General Election
November 2006
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GRID
November 2006
AT Grid
November 2006
CT Grid
November 2006
Contested Races
November 2006
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The Attorney General
October 2006
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THE POVERTY COMMISSION: MEASURING UP?
October 2006
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Special Ed: Needs Improvement
October 2006
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Green Construction
October 2006
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The Many Faces of Poverty
September 2006
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POVERTY
September 2006
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Housing in New York City
September 2006
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A Guide for the Last Minute Voter, Primary Election 2006
September 2006
Contested State Senate Seats
September 2006
Contested State Assembly Seats
September 2006
9/11 + 5
September 2006
Abortion in New York City
August 2006
Eradicating Homelessness?
August 2006
Summer Jobs
August 2006
Funding the Parks Boom
August 2006
Showing Its Age
July 2006
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Parents Grading Schools
July 2006
The Web Site, 311, Surveys and Focus Groups
July 2006
The Way in San Jose
July 2006
What Residents Can Tell Government
July 2006
Beyond 311: Listening to New Yorkers
July 2006
INTRO
July 2006
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Community Gardens
July 2006
Opening the Pork Barrel
July 2006
New York City's Tourism
June 2006
FIGHTING POVERTY AND A DECADE OF WELFARE REFORM
June 2006
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June 2006
Grading Students, Grading Schools
June 2006
Nursing Homes And Alternatives
May 2006
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Hanging Up on Parents?
May 2006
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Can Fathering Be Taught?
May 2006
Drawing the Line: Redistricting Reform
May 2006
Drawing the Line: Redistricting and Non-Competitive Elections in New York State
May 2006
New York on Capitol Hill
May 2006
U.S. Congressional District 10 – Taking On Ed Towns
May 2006
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May 2006
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Predicting The Unforseeable
April 2006
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Residency Requirements
April 2006
Stadiumania: Snapshot of an Obsession
April 2006
Following the Money
April 2006
BARS
March 2006
The Conflicted Past (and Present) of Christopher Street's Gay Bars
March 2006
Stem Cell Research: Medical Miracle or Moral Morass?
March 2006
New York's Port: Beyond Dubai
March 2006
Community Board Reform
March 2006
February 2006
HOW CANDIDATES GET ON THE BALLOT FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION
February 2006
Not-So-Special Elections
February 2006
Keeping Kids in School
February 2006
The Last Dance?
February 2006
The 2007 New York City Budget
February 2006
Ground Zero
January 2006
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Endless Traffic
January 2006
New York needs a “London Plan”
January 2006
Political Agendas, 2006
January 2006
Waiting For Albany
January 2006
Transit Strike
December 2005
Top Stories of 2005
December 2005
Eminent Domain Benefits Developers, Not the Public
December 2005
Eminent Domain is a Tool, Not a Conspiracy
December 2005
Eminent Domain Revisited
December 2005
New York's Uninsured
December 2005
Measuring Miller’s City Council
November 2005
NEW YORK’S GROCERY GAP
November 2005
Charter Schools
November 2005
The Ballot Questions
November 2005
A step-by-step guide to New York City’s General Election.
November 2005
City Council District 4 Candidate Debate - October 18, 2005
October 2005
City Council District 5 Candidate Debate
October 2005
2005 City Council Races to Watch
October 2005
The Real Issues in the 2005 Mayoral Race
October 2005
Josh's Story
October 2005
The NYC Preservation Game
October 2005
Hospitals in Crisis
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Arts
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Civil Rights
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Crime
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Development
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Education
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Environment
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Finance
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Health
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Housing
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Immigrants
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Jobs
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Parks
September 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Transportation
September 2005
Air Pollution
September 2005
Campaign 2005 Primary Day: Guide for the Last Minute Voter
September 2005
Vying for Endorsements
September 2005
Key Endorsements: Gifford Miller
September 2005
Key Endorsements: Anthony Weiner
September 2005
Key Endorsements: Michael Bloomberg
September 2005
Key Endorsements: Fernando Ferrer
September 2005
Key Endorsements: C. Virginia Fields
September 2005
New 42nd Street
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Parks
August 2005
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August 2005
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August 2005
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August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Jobs
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Mayoral Issue Grid: Immigrants
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The End Is Near
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Environment
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August 2005
Mayoral Candidates: Grid
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Education
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: CIVIL RIGHTS
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Crime
August 2005
Mayoral Issue Grid: Development
August 2005
The Mayor's Money
August 2005
Mayoral Candidate:Education
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311
July 2005
Being Borough President
July 2005
Freedom Tower
July 2005
Recycling
June 2005
Fees
June 2005
The Mayoral Candidates On Housing
June 2005
The Mayoral Candidates on Budgets, Taxes and Spending
June 2005
Real Estate
June 2005
Unfunded and Out of Control
May 2005
Nonsmoking New York?
May 2005
Bully
May 2005
Caution: Budget Pitfalls Ahead
May 2005
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Football Stadiums
May 2005
New York’s Proposed Stadiums and Arenas
May 2005
Baseball Stadium
May 2005
Hockey and Basketball Arena
May 2005
Urban Conversations: U.S. Mayors and Innovative Leadership
May 2005
Neighborhood Activists' Toolkit
April 2005
Still Unpreserved
April 2005
The Politics of Parking
April 2005
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March 2005
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The Social Security Debate
March 2005
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NYC Term Limits Revisited
March 2005
Politics and Prosecutors
March 2005
The Crime Rate: How Low Can It Go?
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The Last Remaining Newspaper Town
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Revisiting 9/11, Reworking 911
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Shooting In New York
February 2004
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The (Over)Development Debate
February 2004
The (Over)Development Debate
February 2004
Saving the Animals
February 2004
The Urban Agenda
January 2004
Making Schools Safer?
January 2004
Taxis
January 2004
Green Buildings
January 2004
Moving Foward
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The Top 10 Stories of 2003
December 2003
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Wall Street
December 2003
The Schools' Big Problem
November 2003
The Eight Memorial Finalists
November 2003
Rethink The Type Of Memorial We Want
November 2003
Let The Memorial Jury Do Its Work
November 2003
We're Being Shut Out Of The Process
November 2003
The Other Budget
November 2003
Catching Up With High Tech
November 2003
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Campaign 2003 - General Election
Guide to the Last Minute Voter
November 2003
The Real Nannies
October 2003
What Lurks Beneath The Gutters
October 2003
Co-Op City Blues
October 2003
Are All Systems Go?
October 2003
Leaving NYC
September 2003
A Frustrating Apartment Search
September 2003
Struggling With Strollers and Schools
September 2003
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Bad for Business
September 2003
To Keep People, Cut Costs
September 2003
Why New Yorkers Are Leaving: In Search Of Better Schools And Housing
September 2003
Charity for the City
September 2003
Bake Sales Are Not Enough Anymore
September 2003
The Road to Reform
September 2003
Put Class Size on the Ballot
September 2003
9/11/03 -- Rebuilding, Two Years Later
September 2003
A Brief History of Election Law in New York
September 2003
Terminator 2003: Ballot-Bumping in New York
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Fire Fight
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Compstatmania
July 2003
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A Reason to Tax
June 2003
Stomaching Bloomberg's Budget
June 2003
Summer of Summonses?
June 2003
Will NYC Children Be Left Behind?
June 2003
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It Happens Every Spring
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The New York City Budget Game
May 2003
Fix It
May 2003
Speed Bumps and Humps
May 2003
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Dark Streets
May 2003
Getting a Stop Sign
May 2003
Fixing a Traffic Light
May 2003
Filling In The Potholes
May 2003
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Stop the Rhetoric – Raise the Income Tax
April 2003
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Against The Grain
April 2003
Budget Pie In The Face
April 2003
Idea Factories
March 2003
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I Sell New York
March 2003
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More Than Token Changes
February 2003
Public Housing's Last Stand
February 2003
Not Enough Nurses
February 2003
9/11 Money Troubles
February 2003
The Temperature Of The City
January 2003
The Council's Plan
January 2003
Parent Engagement Boards: Five Principles
January 2003
Making Parents Partners
January 2003
Reaching New Educational Heights?
January 2003
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January 2003
As New York prepares to vie against international cities to play host to the 2012 Olympic Game, the plans are attracting more scrutiny. Does it really make sense to turn an old landfill on Staten Island into a showcase for equestrian events? Is NYC ready
January 2003
Comedian Alan King has one sure-fire prediction for the new year: "If we are lucky, it will be 2003." More than a dozen headline makers and former headline makers try to guess New York¹s New Yorkers welcomed the relative calm of 2002, after the trauma of 2001, and a return to what Mayor Michael Bloomberg called “the same old stuff” -- budget deficits, service cuts and threats of a transit strike. But the year also brought major changes in
December 2002
Last week, the mayor outlined his vision for lower Manhattan, an ambitious plan that includes the creation of two new neighborhoods, a network of large parks and leafy boulevards and a one-seat ride to the airport. This week, the Lower Manhattan Developme
December 2002
Pearson
December 2002
Care-less NYC
December 2002
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
November 2002
Reach Out And Slap Someone
October 2002
Power To The Elderly
October 2002
Grading The Mayor's Report Card
October 2002
The Culture Of 9/11
September 2002
Banning Bikes And Taxing Cell Phones
August 2002
The Next Test
July 2002
Talking Globally, Thinking Locally
July 2002
Til Death Do Us Part
June 2002
Damage Control
May 2002
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School Building
May 2002
Republicans
April 2002
November 2001
Remember Education?
November 2001
The Other Victims
October 2001
The school year begins next week, and among the 1.1 million returning schoolchildren will be some 150,000 identified as having what are now called "special needs." In the past, they would have been placed in "special education classes," and never seen nor
August 2001
New York's Secret Tax
August 2001
Ticket Scalping
June 2001
Disco Despair
May 2001
Anywhere But Here
April 2001
Positions of Power
April 2001
School Showdown
March 2001
The Real Gangs of New York
March 2001
Run-on Sentences
February 2001
Public Spaces, Private Boons
February 2001
New York vs. New York
December 2000
Going Private
November 2000
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School Boards
November 2000
Getting Out the Vote
November 2000
The Press and the Process
October 2000
The Courts of New York Explained
September 2000
School Funding
September 2000
Brownfields are generally defined as derelict urban properties -- most often vacant industrial sites located in low-income and minority areas like Hunts Point -- which have not been redeveloped, in part, because of real or perceived environmental contamin
August 2000
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Solid Waste
April 2000
Campaign Finance
March 2000
Civilian Complaint Review Board
February 2000
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Kensico Reservoir
January 2000
School Vouchers
January 2000
December 1999
The Trump Tower and the Eight Avenue Subdistrict or how huge buildings are erected in the City. Everything from zoning commish Joseph Rose to Walter Cronkite. Former General Counsel of the New York City Planning Commission Norman Marcus explains transfera
September 1999
Change Comes to the City’s Edge
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Land Use
Chinatown Looks for a Way to Survive and Thrive
April 2009
Road Wars
February 2009
The Deal for Willets Point
November 2008
The Candidates' Urban Policies
October 2008
Land Use
The Rush to Rebuild
September 2008
Land Use
Climate Change and Willets Point
August 2008
Land Use
A Little Privacy, Please?
July 2008
Coney Island's Latest Roller Coaster Ride
July 2008
Planning for Food Security
June 2008
Church and (Real) Estate
May 2008
Planning for the Long Term
April 2008
Land Use
Gondoliers on the Gowanus?
February 2008
Creating Greener Neighborhoods
January 2008
Land Use
Daniel Doctoroff's Legacy
December 2007
Land Use
Greening City Schoolyards
November 2007
Land Use
Burial Ground Serves Bears Witness to a Segregated City
October 2007
Land Use
Making Coney Island Green
September 2007
Land Use
The New Battle Against Gentrification
August 2007
Albee Square: When the Mall’s No Longer Home
July 2007
Land Use
Atlantic Yards and the Sustainability Test?
June 2007
A Sustainability Test at Willets Point
May 2007
Land Use
Sunnyside Fights Over What to Preserve
April 2007
Atlantic Yards: A “Done Deal?”
March 2007
Land Use
Plan NYC 2030: New York’s First Long-Range Plan?
February 2007
Land Use
Congestion Pricing: An Incomplete Solution
December 2006
Land Use
Obesity, Asthma, and Public Health: What Can Planners Do?
November 2006
Land Use
Long-Term Planning At City Hall
October 2006
Inclusionary Zoning
September 2006
The Waste Plan and the Neighborhoods
July 2006
Zoning Versus Planning in Manhattanville
June 2006
Jane Jacobs and New York
May 2006
Willets Point: A Defense
April 2006
Livable Streets (For People, Not Cars)
February 2006
Yankee Stadium Without Tears
January 2006
Bronx Terminal Market And The Subverting Of The Land Use Review Process
December 2005
Providing Fresh Food, and a Sense of Accomplishment
November 2005
Atlantic Yards: Through The Looking Glass
November 2005
Overdevelopment: Planning, Not Rezoning, Is The Answer
October 2005
9/11: Will The Lessons Learned Help New Orleans?
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Mayoral Candidates’ Plans On Planning
August 2005
Eminent Domain: What The Supreme Court Ruling Means To NYC
July 2005
NASCAR, The Largest Proposed NYC Sports Stadium Of All
June 2005
Zoning Instead of Planning in Williamsburg and Greenpoint
May 2005
The Anti-Moses And The First Community-Based Plan
April 2005
Big Projects And Bad News
March 2005
Not Ready for Wal-Mart
February 2005
Summit Calls For Community Planning Reform
December 2004
The Filtration Plant Deal in the Bronx: Flawed Planning, Environmental Injustice
November 2004
Rezoning Proposals Squeeze Out Affordable Housing From Both Ends
October 2004
The Governors Island Plan: Last Chance to Get It Right?
September 2004
Rethinking Environmental Impact Statements
July 2004
Ikea And Red Hook's Racial Divide
June 2004
Residential Segregation
May 2004
The Nets Arena Is Not The Real Issue In Development Of Downtown Brooklyn
April 2004
Long Commutes and Lost Opportunities for Planning
March 2004
Waterfront 'Access' May Actually Keep Public Out
February 2004
The Plans For Downtown Brooklyn Ignore Both People And Public Spaces
January 2004
The Sidewalks of New York
December 2003
The West Side Stadium: No Arena for Good Planning
November 2003
Variances: How To Undermine Zoning and Make a Profit
October 2003
Noise Pollution: A City Planning Problem
September 2003
The Lesson Of The Blackout Is NOT More Power Plants
August 2003
Greenpoint/Williamsburg Zoning Changes
July 2003
"As-of-Right" Development: An Invitation to Ethical Breaches?
June 2003
Zoning To Kill Manufacturing, and the Assault on Greenpoint
May 2003
Zoning To Protect Manufacturing
April 2003
New York City's Big Planning Projects: Avoiding the Public?
March 2003
Midtown West Side Story: A Conversation With Robert Moses
February 2003
Lots Of New Plans; Any New Visions?
January 2003
A bridge in Tom Angotti’s neighborhood needed fixing. The city went about getting it done in such a poor way that he agreed with his neighbors’ opposition to the project – and learned three lessons in what is wrong with the city government.
December 2002
Many neighborhood groups have complained for years that New York City's zoning law lets community facilities like hospitals, universities and
churches grow too big, and do so without their neighbors having a say.
November 2002
In the public discussions about rebuilding lower Manhattan, some housing advocates have proposed that the city use inclusionary zoning as a tool to insure that at least some of the new housing is affordable to low-income people.
October 2002
Laura Wolf-Powers details the land use rebuilding issues that New Yorkers should be watching to figure out where we are going to go from here -- the swap, the lease, the governor, the Olympics, etc.
9/11 Special
Nobody seems to be happy with New York City's 59 community boards, yet we can find some good things to say about them. Tom Angotti asks, "Just what should be done with community boards?"
September 2002
Why Zoning Reform IS Important
January 2001
Law
Undocumented -- and Suing
June 2009
A Smaller Safety Net
May 2009
A New Era in Fighting Drugs
April 2009
Pressure for a Plea
March 2009
Upholding an 'Inadequate' Allowance
March 2009
Protection for Abuse Victims
January 2009
Brooklyn Guns
December 2008
No Campaigning in Class
October 2008
Law
Recognizing Same-Sex Marriages
September 2008
Law
Restricting Gun Ownership
July 2008
The Limits of the Right to Counsel
June 2008
Law
New Rights for Incarcerated Youth
June 2008
Law
When the Victim Won't Testify
April 2008
Protecting Low-Income Tenants
March 2008
Court Rejects Waiving Rent Rules
February 2008
Protecting Tenants from Harassment
January 2008
A Minor Case with a Major Impact
December 2007
Gun Laws Confront Legal Challenges
November 2007
The High Court on the Brooklyn Court
October 2007
Brooklyn Judge's Battle Reaches Washington
September 2007
When Conviction Records Can Be Sealed
August 2007
Guaranteeing Access to Abortion in New York
July 2007
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
June 2007
Upholding the Cell Phone Ban
May 2007
Judge’s Stagnant Salaries
April 2007
Law
Change of Venue In the Sean Bell Case
March 2007
Law
Legal Lexicon
November 2006
No-Fault Divorce: Feminists Clash
October 2006
Law
Foreign, Battered and Denied Aid Unconstitutionally
September 2006
Law
Subway Searches
August 2006
Law
The Gay Marriage Ruling
July 2006
Law
State Removes Statute Of Limitations For Rape Cases
June 2006
Felons And The Right To Vote
May 2006
Injured, Undocumented – And Legally Protected
April 2006
Divorce, New York-Style
March 2006
Housing Court: Should Tenants Have A Guaranteed Right To Counsel?
January 2006
Section 8 Tenants Win The Right To Stay In Their Rent-Stabilized Apartments
July 2005
Immigrant Drivers Win A Victory
June 2005
Seeking Asylum; Getting Deported
May 2005
The Jailed Juror
March 2005
The Case of The Youthful Offender And The Bawdy House Law
February 2005
A Victim Of Domestic Violence Gets Fired
October 2004
A Ban On Welfare Advocates At Welfare Centers
September 2004
Does Physical Disability Deserve Great Insurance Coverage Than Mental Illness?
July 2004
Freeing A Youthful Offender From His Past
June 2004
Withholding Rent While On Welfare
May 2004
The Right To Marry
April 2004
Yes, Welfare Workers Deserve Workforce Protection
March 2004
City Settles Discrimination Lawsuit By Black And Latino Officers
February 2004
Battered Women And Their Fight To Keep Their Children
January 2004
The Bill Of Rights Resolution
December 2003
A Case Of Rape And Murder
November 2003
The Case Of The 17-Year-Old Anti-War Protester
October 2003
Challenging A Test The Teachers Must Take
September 2003
When To End A Child's Life Support
July 2003
Prosecuting The Batterer Without The Victim's Approval
June 2003
Litigation Over World Trade Center Clean-Up Payments
May 2003
Mental Health Care For Released Inmates
April 2003
Police Misconduct Cases - Prosecuted By Civilians, But Still Judged By Police
March 2003
Do Welfare Workers Deserve Workplace Protection?
February 2003
New York State has not increased compensation for court-appointed attorneys in criminal and family courts since 1986. The current rate, $40 per hour in court ($25 per hour out of court), ranks 49th among the 50 states. As a result, attorneys are abandoni
March 2002
Measuring Up
The Mayor's High Stakes Test
April 2009
Measuring Up
Rising Demand for Food Stamps
April 2009
The Council IQ Test
March 2009
Measuring Up
A Budget Expert Looks at the Numbers
February 2009
Measuring Up
Meet the Independent Budget Office
February 2009
Measuring Up
The Bad News Gets Worse
January 2009
Rating Government Spending
December 2008
High-Stakes Test
November 2008
Measuring Poverty
October 2008
Looking for Accountability
September 2008
Classroom Crunch
September 2008
Getting City Data
August 2008
Translating at Hospitals
July 2008
New York's Best and Worst Beaches
July 2008
Measuring Constituent Complaints: Round One
July 2008
Measuring Up
The Past and Future of Sustainability
June 2008
Measuring Up
Marijuana Busts -- and Bias
June 2008
Rating Health Care Behind Bars
June 2008
Grading New York's Public School
May 2008
How Safe Are They?
April 2008
Report Cards Flunk the Clarity Test
November 2007
Testing Fails the Arts
November 2007
Poor Grades for a School ‘Contract’
July 2007
Data to the People
May 2007
Immigrant Tenants
April 2007
A ‘Customer’ Survey for the City
April 2007
New Bills -- Government on the Web, Parking, and Illegal Hotels
March 2007
Confronting the Congestion Crisis
February 2007
Charting New York’s Health
January 2007
High Revenue, Obscure Spending
December 2006
THE POVERTY COMMISSION: MEASURING UP?
October 2006
Housing in New York City
September 2006
Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Then and Now
September 2006
Putting City Hall’s Documents Online
September 2006
Transit Riders – More For Work, Fewer For Fun
September 2006
Noise In New York
August 2006
What New Yorkers Are Like Now – First Results of the American Community Survey
August 2006
The Homeless Pledge
August 2006
Parents Grading Schools
July 2006
The Web Site, 311, Surveys and Focus Groups
July 2006
The Way in San Jose
July 2006
What Residents Can Tell Government
July 2006
Beyond 311: Listening to New Yorkers
July 2006
INTRO
July 2006
Counting The Empty Buildings
July 2006
Childstat
June 2006
Predicting The Unforseeable
April 2006
Homeless Prevention Programs A Year Later
April 2006
Budget: More Cops, More Surveillance; Less Crime?
April 2006
Hiding Behind the Numbers
March 2006
Behind the Dropout Rat
March 2006
311 + 3 , Plus Social Services
March 2006
Parkstat To Fight Crime
January 2006
January 2006
Mayor’s Management Report for 2005: Thinner, Less Useful
October 2005
The Mayor’s Management Report Skimps On Information About Education And Everything Else
October 2004
Report Card On Neighborhood Parks
June 2004
Questioning Police Statistics For Crime and Cases Of Misconduct
April 2004
Lessons From the Voters and the Comptroller
November 2003
Judging School Reform
September 2003
Compstatmania
July 2003
Private Report Card on Smaller Parks
May 2003
Report Card On The Parks
March 2003
Parks
Generating Revenue and Saving Money
June 2009
Yankees Open, But Not Parks
April 2009
Parks
Big Budget Cuts for Open Space
March 2009
Parks
Plant in the Park
January 2009
A Federal Stimulus for City Parks
December 2008
Street Life
November 2008
Boosting Property Values
October 2008
No Parking: Pedestrian Zone
September 2008
Attacks of the Boring Beetle
August 2008
Reclaiming Ridgewood Reservoir
July 2008
Parks
How Safe Are They?
April 2008
Parks
Fields of Rubber?
February 2008
Parks
The Ferry Point Fiasco
January 2008
Parks
Creating People-Friendly Streets
November 2007
Parks
Saving Arlington Marsh
October 2007
Replacing Parking with Parks
September 2007
Reopening the 19th Century High Bridge
August 2007
Grading Neighborhood Parks 2007
May 2007
Parks
Protecting New York’s Wetlands
April 2007
Parks
Private Partnerships For Public Parks
January 2007
Parks
A Greener Governor?
November 2006
Yankee Stadium/Parks Exchange Underway
October 2006
Open Space in the AtlanticYards Development
August 2006
Open Space in the AtlanticYards Development
August 2006
Open Space in the AtlanticYards Development
August 2006
Parks
Community Gardens
July 2006
Parks
Parks Budget For 2007
April 2006
Yankee Stadium Parkland Swap
March 2006
Protecting The Park In The Parkway
February 2006
Parks
Parkstat To Fight Crime
January 2006
Parks
Real Estate Developers Should Help Pay for Parkland
August 2005
Recreation In Decline
June 2005
The Same Old Budget Game
May 2005
Trees & Sidewalks Repair Program
April 2005
Politics Kills A Greenway
March 2005
The Gates And The Water Filtration Plant
February 2005
Greenway Glitches
January 2005
Turning The High Line Elevated Railroad Into An Unconventional Park
November 2004
Planting Trees For Life
October 2004
$243 Million For Bronx Parkland? Who Will Decide?
August 2004
The Filtration Plant In Van Cortlandt Park
July 2004
Parks
Report Card On Neighborhood Parks
June 2004
Parks
City Parks And The Proposed Budget
May 2004
Parks Opportunity Program
April 2004
How To Make An Excellent City Park System
March 2004
Concessions
February 2004
Federal Funding For City Parks
January 2004
Crime in the Parks
December 2003
Three New Projects To Restore Or Build Parks
November 2003
Manhattan Greenway
October 2003
Adopt-A-Park
September 2003
New Threat From Asian Long-Horned Beetle. Also: Van Cortlandt Park And The Water Filtration Plant
August 2003
How Park Improvements Affect Community Real Estate Values
July 2003
Van Cortlandt Park And The Filtration Plant
June 2003
Parks
Private Report Card on Smaller Parks
May 2003
Parks
Reviving the Filtration Plant Underneath Van Cortlandt Park
April 2003
Parks
Report Card On The Parks
March 2003
Parks
Turning Parkways Into Parks? Turning Trees Into Sports Fields?
February 2003
Crime, Christo and Car-free
January 2003
Anne Schwartz reports on two new decisions, which reverse earlier ones - the mayor's decision to start the process of turning the High Line elevated rail line into a park; the Central Park Conservancy's support to the artist Christo for wrapping Central P
December 2002
Budget cuts and the parks
November 2002
New York City's Permanent Food Emergency
November 2002
State Protections For City Parkland
October 2002
A Year After 911: The Rediscovery Of The City's Parks
9/11 Special
Park Escapes
August 2002
STATE FUNDING FOR CITY PARKS
July 2002
Not A Swimmer's Paradise
June 2002
Naming for Dollars
May 2002
Community Gardens; Prospect Park's Audubon Center; Brooklyn Bridge Park
May 2002
Remembering 9/11. Governors Island. The Beetles.
April 2002
Central Park of Art, Beetles and Cars; First Budget Hearings on Parks
March 2002
The New Parks Chief; Also, Greenways Are Good
February 2002
A New Policy Towards Parks?
January 2002
Outlook in 2002; Unfinished Business From the Giuliani Era
December 2001
Open Spaces; A Million Daffodil Memorial
November 2001
Campaign Promises For Parks In Light Of 9/11
October 2001
Drawn To The Parks
September 2001
Governors Island, Community Gardens, Mayors Who Actually Care About Parks
August 2001
Golf Course at Ferry Point Park
July 2001
Parks in the budget
June 2001
Community Gardens Endangered Still. Also: Preserve Bloomingdale Woods
May 2001
New York As Oasis: OASIS mapping, Bloomingdale Woods, Governors Island Tours
April 2001
Organizing for More Green
March 2001
In the News: Playing hardball in Bloomingdale Woods. Also, Parks embattled by accusations
February 2001
Golf Clubbing Bronx Residents? Also: When Stadiums Win, Do Parks Lose?
January 2001
Fees for Parks. Also: Making Parks Political
December 2000
Election Special--THE PARKS AND THE POLS
October 2000
In the News: Garbage Out, Parks In; Also, rating New York City's parks
September 2000
Final Design for Brooklyn Waterfront Park. Also: Funding for Urban Parks
August 2000
In the News: The War on Beetles
July 2000
In the News: Roundup
June 2000
Protecting community gardens
May 2000
In The News: Finally! The Brooklyn Bridge Park plan
April 2000
In The News: Field of Dreams in Staten Island?
March 2000
In The News:
February 2000
In The News:
January 2000
In The News:
December 1999
Searchlight
July 2009
Bringing Home the Bacon
June 2009
Band-Aid Budget
June 2009
Doling Out Pork
June 2009
Council and Mayor Reach Budget Deal
June 2009
Dock Street Approved
June 2009
Council and Mayor Reach Revenue Deal
June 2009
Can HHC Be Saved?
May 2009
Keeping Eyes on the Tenant Watch List
May 2009
The Underdog
May 2009
Attacking 'Scratchiti'
May 2009
Bloomberg's Budget Revival
May 2009
Role Reversal: Contributions from Candidates
April 2009
Searchlight
Courtney's Article
April 2009
Searchlight
The Bronx's Family Feud
April 2009
New Bills: Tracking Stimulus and Unattended Idlers
April 2009
Council Moves to Protect Access to Clinics
April 2009
Rent Stabilization Article
March 2009
Priced Out: Council Looks to Keep Apartments Affordable
March 2009
March 2009
Stated Meeting: Clerk Battle and Food Allergies
February 2009
Another State of the City
February 2009
February 2009
Meet the Independent Budget Office
February 2009
Searchlight
Stated Meeting: Shutting Engines At Schools
January 2009
Searchlight
New Bills: From Parking to Playgrounds
January 2009
A Recovery Package From Bloomberg
January 2009
Council Approves Firearm Reporting
January 2009
The Council Passes Budget Cuts
December 2008
Stated Meeting: Tax Bills on the Floor
December 2008
The Public Speaks on Budget Cuts
November 2008
Searchlight
November 2008
Searchlight
The Deal for Willets Point
November 2008
Searchlight
The Public Principles Police
November 2008
Term Limits Gets Final Signature
November 2008
City Council Approves Term Limits Extension
October 2008
Stated Meeting: Waterfronts and East Harlem
October 2008
Stated Meeting: Tax Breaks for Industry
September 2008
Disclosure Bill's Uncertain Future
September 2008
Take Three
September 2008
Stated Meeting: Improving Crane Safety
September 2008
Stated Meeting: Cooling City Streets
August 2008
Prayer or Violation? The City Council's Invocation
August 2008
New Bills: From Saving Energy to Preventing Choking
August 2008
Stated Meeting: Construction Legislation Moves Forward
July 2008
Searchlight
Measuring Constituent Complaints: Round One
July 2008
Searchlight
New Bills: Street Vending to School Parking
June 2008
Stated Meeting: First Steps for Building Revisions
June 2008
Safety on Site -- or In Sight?
June 2008
Stated Meeting: A New Fire Code and Surplus
June 2008
Searchlight
A Better Budget Outlook… To Some
May 2008
Searchlight
Stated Meeting: The Next Round on E-Waste
May 2008
Quinn Tries Again
May 2008
Stated Meeting: Harlem Rezoning Approved
May 2008
New Bills: Allergens to Parade Rules
April 2008
A Stated Meeting Amidst Scandal
April 2008
Bogus Groups Get Into Budget
April 2008
Stated Meeting: An End to E-Waste
March 2008
The Council and Congestion Pricing: Part II
March 2008
Stated Meeting: Budget Cuts and E-Waste
March 2008
New Bills: Bed Bugs to Base Jumping
March 2008
Stated Meeting: Green Carts Come to Town
March 2008
A Permanent Address: Regulating Residency Requirements at the City Council
February 2008
Stated Meeting: Wasting Electronics
February 2008
New Bills: Ringing in the New Year With Legislation
February 2008
Stated Meeting: Housing Discrimination
February 2008
Budget Blues
January 2008
State of the City
January 2008
Bagging Plastic Pile-Ups
January 2008
New Bills: Green Carts to Horse Carriages
January 2008
City Council's Resolutions
December 2007
Stated Meeting: Columbia Gets Approval
December 2007
Stated Meeting: Savoring the Brooklyn Sugar Plant
December 2007
Getting Paid: Debating the Council's Outside Income and Salaries
December 2007
Committee Assignments and Stipends
December 2007
Stated Meeting: Capping Carbon
December 2007
Stated Meeting: Restricting Council Ads
November 2007
New Bills: Stormwater Fixes
November 2007
November 6, 2007 General Election Results
November 2007
Bagging Plastic Bags
November 2007
Stated Meeting: Preserving Neighborhoods
October 2007
Stated Meeting with a State Agenda
October 2007
Stated Meeting: Debating Con Edison and Reporting on Pesticides
October 2007
Adding Up: How Much Member's Spend on Ads?
October 2007
New Bills: Biking On The Boss's Dollar
October 2007
Stated Meeting: Replacing Street Signs to Taking Recyclables
October 2007
Next Round in the Cell Phone Fight
September 2007
Searchlight
Campaign 2007: Primary Election Results
September 2007
Searchlight
New Bills: Curbing to Cutting Trees
September 2007
September 2007
Stated Meeting: Rezoning Jamaica
September 2007
New Bills: Paralyzing Peeping and Blasting Explosive Regulations
September 2007
Stated Meeting: Making Room in Litter Baskets
August 2007
The City Clerk – Wait, Who?
August 2007
Searchlight: Land Use and an Indicted Council Member
August 2007
A Divided Council Confronts Congestion Pricing
August 2007
Stated Meeting: Cell Phones, Yes, Markers, No
July 2007
Quinn’s Rule
July 2007
New Bills: Clean Energy to Cough Syrup
July 2007
‘Imperfect’ Campaign Finance Bill Wins Approval
July 2007
Items
June 2007
Dividing the Wealth: Who Gets the Council’s Discretionary Funds?
June 2007
BUDGET 2007
June 2007
What the Campaign Finance Bill Would Do – and Not Do
June 2007
Stated Meeting – Street Names Sparks Heated Debate
June 2007
New Bills: Rights in Restaurants, Banning Markers
May 2007
Stated Meeting: Protecting Fire Fighters
May 2007
Stated Meeting City Council April 23, new bills
May 2007
Stated Meeting - Bicycle Taxis, Baseball Bats, and Budget Boom
April 2007
New Bills: Housing Repairs and a Street Fight
April 2007
Stated Meeting -- Protecting
April 2007
Searchlight
The Council's Budget Response
April 2007
Searchlight
Stated Meeting -- Maintaining Mitchell Lama
April 2007
Searchlight
New Bills -- Government on the Web, Parking, and Illegal Hotels
March 2007
Searchlight
Metal Bat Ban, Benefits for Domestic Patners, and Chocolate Milk
March 2007
Nightlife, Pedicabs, and the N-word
March 2007
Bronx Borough President 2007 State of the Borough Address
February 2007
Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro 2007 State of the Borough Address
February 2007
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer 2007 State of the Borough Address
February 2007
Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall 2007 State of the Borough Address
February 2007
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz 2007 State of the Borough Address
February 2007
Speaker Christine C. Quinn: State of the City Address: February 15, 2007
February 2007
New Bills -- Domestic Partnerships, Wetlands, and Skinny Models
February 2007
Do-It-Yourself Regulation: Stated Meeting 2/1/2007
February 2007
New Bills -- Bike Safety, Public Housing, Subsidized Transportation
January 2007
MAYOR BLOOMBERG'S 2007 STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS
January 2007
Charter Meeting -- On-Site Power Generation for City Owned Buildings
January 2007
Tax Breaks For Affordable Housing
December 2006
Long Term Planning in New York City -- Challenges and Goals
December 2006
Stated Meeting – Cleaner, Accessible Taxis; Faster Lobbying Reform
December 2006
New Bills -- Fake IDs, Commuter Vans, Rescue Workers
December 2006
Stated Meeting: Electrical Code, Property Taxes
December 2006
New Bills -- Nightlife Legislation, Tighter Agency Oversight, and Disclosure on Slavery
November 2006
The City Council Votes Itself A Raise
November 2006
Searchlight
2006 Election Results
November 2006
Searchlight
New Bills -- Pay Raises, Veterans and the Police Department, Bicycle Lanes
November 2006
Searchlight
City Council State Meeting, Oct. 25, 2006: Economic Incentives, for Council Members and Businesses
October 2006
Searchlight
New Bills – Saving Middle-Income Housing and Improving Nightlife Safety
October 2006
Stated Meeting – Helping Low-Income Homeowners – 10/11/2006
October 2006
New Council Bills -- Nightlife Safety and Property Tax Breaks
October 2006
New York City Council Stated Meeting -- September 27, 2006
September 2006
New City Council Bills -- Commuting, Smoking, and Drinking
September 2006
2006 Primary Election Results
September 2006
Election Results: Minor Races
September 2006
Stated Meeting: Quinn's First Override
September 2006
New City Council Bills -- Conserving Energy, Limiting Noise
August 2006
New York City Council Stated Meeting -- August 16, 2006
August 2006
New City Council Bills
July 2006
New York City Council Stated Meeting – July 19, 2006
July 2006
New York City Council Stated Meeting – June 29, 2006
June 2006
New City Council Bills - June 13, 2006
June 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - June 13, 2006
June 2006
2006 City Council Stipends
June 2006
Non-City Income for New York City Council Members
June 2006
New City Council Bills
May 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - May 24, 2006
May 2006
New City Council Bills
May 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - May 10, 2006
May 2006
New Council Bills
May 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - April 26, 2006
April 2006
New City Council Bills
April 2006
New York City Council Budget Response - April 6, 2006
April 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - April 5, 2006
April 2006
New City Council Bills
March 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - March 22, 2006
March 2006
City Commission for Economic Opportunity
March 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - March 1, 2006
March 2006
Quinn-ing the City Council
February 2006
City Council Stated Meeting -- February 1, 2006
February 2006
City Council Stated Meeting -- February 1, 2006
February 2006
MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG DELIVERS 2006 STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS:
January 2006
City Council Committees - 2006
January 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - January 18, 2006
January 2006
Creating Open Space and Solving Transportation Woes on the East Side
January 2006
Planning for a Better - And Quieter - Community
January 2006
District 13: Improving Education and Reforming the Department of Buildings
January 2006
District 5: Garbage Stations, Water Tunnel Shaft, and Affordable Housing
January 2006
City Council Stated Meeting – January 4, 2006
January 2006
Speaker Christine Quinn's Address to the City Council
January 2006
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's 2006 Inaugural Address
January 2006
Mayor Bloomberg’s 2006 Inaugural Address
January 2006
Comptroller William Thompson Jr. 2006 Inaugural Address
January 2006
City Council Stated Meeting - December 21, 2005
December 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - December 8, 2005
December 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - November 30, 2005
November 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - November 16, 2005
November 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - October 27, 2005
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City Council Stated Meeting - October 11, 2005
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City Council Stated Meeting - September 28, 2005
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City Council Stated Meeting - September 15, 2005
September 2005
City Council Races -- Selective Newspaper Endorsements
September 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - August 15, 2005
August 2005
Mayor's Testimony Before the Financial Control Board On The City's Health
July 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - July 27, 2005
July 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - June 30, 2005
June 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - June 23, 2005
June 2005
City Council Salaries and Stipends - 2005
June 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - May 8, 2005
June 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - May 11, 2005
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City Council Stated Meeting - May 11, 2005
May 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - April 20, 2005
April 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - April 12, 2005
April 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Urban Conversations: U.S. Mayors and Innovative Leadership
April 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - March 23, 2005
March 2005
City Council Stated Meeting - March 9, 2005
March 2005
New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller State of the City
February 2005
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Speaker Miller's State Of The City Address
February 2003
Other Side Of City Hall
January 2003
Mayor Bloomberg's 2003 State Of The City Address
January 2003
Mayor Bloomberg's Education Reform
January 2003
New York City Council Redistricting
January 2003
Last January, the newly elected New York City Council promised to reform city government, improve schools, pass landmark legislation, and ensure that New Yorkers get the city services they deserve. It ran into a major obstacle on the way: the city's $7 bi
December 2002
Much of Gifford Miller's first year as Speaker of the New York City Council, he says in our interview, has been a choice between the "disastrous" and the "unpalatable." The council cut some $3.5 billion from the budget, raised property taxes more than 18
December 2002
Vision For 21st Century Lower Manhattan
December 2002
Read a transcript of the remarks by Deputy Mayor Marc Shaw at the Citizens Budget Commission conference on how to balance the city's budget. "From a budget perspective I look at where
December 2002
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Announces Housing Plan For New York City's 21st Century Neighborhoods
December 2002
November 2002
November 2002
Letter From 27 City Councilmembers Calling On Speaker Gifford Miller To Raise Taxes To Pay For Children's Programs
March 2002
Social Services
Fighting Domestic Violence
June 2009
Social Services
Rising Demand for Food Stamps
April 2009
Measuring Poverty
October 2008
Social Services
Meeting the Gray Wave
September 2008
Staying Out of Prison
June 2008
Food Pantry or Supermarket?
April 2008
Fighting Foreclosure
March 2008
Obstacles to Psychiatric Help
January 2008
Cash Incentives for the Poor
August 2007
Social Services
Helping Fledgling Families
March 2007
Social Services
New Help For the Working Poor?
November 2006
The Poverty Commission: Measuring Up?
October 2006
The Many Faces of Poverty
September 2006
Single Mothers: Working, But Still Poor
August 2006
No More Free Recreation Centers
July 2006
Every Day Is Father's Day
June 2006
Ex-Prisoners and Jobs
May 2006
Back From Iraq
March 2006
Taking On Poverty
February 2006
Chaotic New Medicare Prescription Drug Plan
January 2006
A Punitive System Of Support For The Needy
November 2005
Hunger and Obesity In The Two New Yorks
October 2005
Job Hunters Get Government Help At One-Stop Centers
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Making A Difference In Jobs, Food, and Dropouts
August 2005
Child Support
July 2005
Adult Protective Service -- A Neglected Service For Neglected People
June 2005
Bankruptcy “Reform”
April 2005
WeCARE, For New Yorkers Still On Welfare And Unable To Work
March 2005
After School Programs
February 2005
Social Service Programs Cut; Minimum Wage Raised
January 2005
The Working Poor
November 2004
The Battle Over Social Security
October 2004
The Poor Are Not Better Off
September 2004
The Disabled Poor: Shut In, Out of Pocket
August 2004
Welfare Rolls On The Rise
June 2004
Marriage Promotion Programs For Welfare Recipients
May 2004
Meals and Wheels Threatened In The Bronx
April 2004
No Breaks For Low Income New Yorkers; Also: Unemployment
March 2004
A Tax Shelter For The Working Poor
February 2004
Is Congress About To Shake Up Job Training?
January 2004
Food Stamps Not Reaching Everybody Who Deserves Them
December 2003
Advocates For The Ill
November 2003
Proposed Changes In Welfare Reform
October 2003
The Gap Between Food Stamp Eligibility and Food Stamp Use
September 2003
Summertime Unemployment. Also: Kinship Foster Care
August 2003
Flaws In The Screening Process For Foster Parents
July 2003
The Mayor's Plan To "Streamline" Social Services
June 2003
Threatened Change To HIV/AIDS Services
May 2003
Big Stakes for the Elderly in Budget Battles
April 2003
Governor's Proposed Budget Bad News For Low-Income New Yorkers
March 2003
How Welfare Reform Affects People With Disabilities
February 2003
When Prisoners Come Home
January 2003
The recent revelation that mentally ill adults are being warehoused in locked wards of nursing homes brings to light the lack of adequate housing and support services for the mentally ill. Linda Ostreicher offers a guide to the various methods of housing
December 2002
New York City's Permanent Food Emergency
November 2002
Dead Broke Dads
October 2002
9/11/01-02: Charity Began At Ground Zero, But Where Will It Wind Up?
September 2002
Children In No-Parent Families
August 2002
Albany Matters In Social Services
July 2002
Welfare Reform, Round Two
June 2002
Child Welfare and Domestic Violence
April 2002
Job Training
March 2002
When The Neighborhood Doesn't Want It
February 2002
The Limits of Time Limits On Welfare
January 2002
THE NEEDIEST. Also: City-Wide Task Force On Housing Court Still Alive
December 2001
A Rocky Season
November 2001
Administration for Children's Services
October 2001
Suicide Prevention
July 2001
AIDS At 20: Frontline STD Clinics
June 2001
Hanging Out
April 2001
Welfare Running Out. Also, news of the poor, the old, the disabled, and
March 2001
AIDS And The African-American Community; Homeless and Health
February 2001
In Out Of The Cold: Offering The Homeless A Warm And Safe Place To Sleep
January 2001
Anti-Violence Project Urges Gays and Lesbians To Take Offense
December 2000
Election Special-The Missing Social Service Issues
November 2000
Hunger In New York
September 2000
A Place for Pregnant Teenagers
August 2000
In the News: Violence and Youth
July 2000
In the News: Home Delivered Meals Ñ and some Human Contact
June 2000
In The News: AIDS Peril for People of Color
May 2000
In The News: Substance Abuse Treatment for the Developmentally Disabled
April 2000
In The News: Community Mental Health
February 2000
In The News: Workplace Dangers for Immigrants
January 2000
Domestic Violence
December 1999
Poorer kids have more asthma
November 1999
Tech
Calling Card Hang-ups
June 2009
Boxed in by TV's Big Switch
February 2009
Creative Use of White Space
December 2008
Cable Clash of the Titans
September 2008
Tech
Getting City Data
August 2008
Tech
Verizon: A Big Deal, Little Scrutiny
May 2008
Coming Soon (Maybe): A Fiber Optic Network
April 2008
Tech
The Great TV Turnover
February 2008
Tech
Taking Wi-Fi Beyond Manhattan
January 2008
Will Technology Kill Privacy?
November 2007
Tech
Censored by Verizon
October 2007
Tech
Earth Day for the Internet
September 2007
Electricity, Gas – and Broadband
June 2007
Have Laptops Flunked the Test?
May 2007
Broadband Haves and Have Nots
April 2007
Tech
Cell Phones To The Rescue
February 2007
Tech
The Internet From Your Electrical Outlet
January 2007
Wireless And Emergency Response
December 2006
Smart Meters
November 2006
Municipal Television – A Clash Of Vision
October 2006
Tech
Putting City Hall’s Documents Online
September 2006
Tech
The 2006 Blackout – Too Easy Just To Blame Con Edison
August 2006
Wireless Access
June 2006
A Laptop For Every Student?
May 2006
Job Seekers And Technology
April 2006
Tech
311 + 3 , Plus Social Services
March 2006
Tech
A Library Opens In The Bronx
February 2006
Older New Yorkers And The Internet
January 2006
Rising Heating Costs
November 2005
Universal Internet Access – Not Just A Campaign Theme
October 2005
Is Broadband a Public Utility? A Right?
April 2005
NYCMap
March 2005
New York’s Broadband Gaps
January 2005
Using Energy More Efficiently In NYC
December 2004
Put Internet Access On The Trains
November 2004
Tech, Art, Protest and Politics
October 2004
Using The City's Lampposts For Cell Phones and Wireless Computers
September 2004
New Tech Tools For Art and Politics
August 2004
Our Dangerous Electricity Infrastructure
July 2004
311, Noise, and Community Boards
June 2004
Emergency Communications Systems And Equipment
May 2004
Identity Theft
April 2004
Technology In The Schools
March 2004
"Patriotic" Surveillance? Federal Fingerprinting Of Foreigners
January 2004
Wireless Goes Indoors
December 2003
Cell Phones: New Developments
November 2003
Should The City Sell Its TV And Radio Stations?
October 2003
Turning Teens Into Techies And Online Activists
September 2003
The Blackout Via TV; By Phone; On Blogs. Also: Only Days Left To Save .NYC
August 2003
Blogging And The City
July 2003
A Plan for NYC Telecommunications
June 2003
Government-Aided Media Consolidation
May 2003
Fraud Stalls Wireless Library Project
April 2003
The Tech Lag In Community Boards
March 2003
Cell Phone Ban
February 2003
Putting City Documents Online
January 2003
When Verizon laid of some 2,700 workers in New York and New Jersey just a few days before Christmas, Laura Forlano writes, they made it even more likely that the current sorry state of telecommunications infrastructure would remain a web of (possibly rott
December 2002
Fighting Domestic Violence With Technology
November 2002
NYC Schools as Hi-Tech Hubs
October 2002
A Failure On 9/11, Life-Saving Innovations Afterwards
September 2002
New York City Goes Wireless
August 2002
Why Albany Matters in NYC Tech Policy
July 2002
The Latest on 311, Pay Phone Rate Rollback, Camera Surveillance, Hi-tech
June 2002
Technology and 9/11
May 2002
The City Council Gets Serious About Tech
April 2002
From Home To Community (Board). Dot NYC. Increased Cost of Pay Phones,
March 2002
E-Government In NYC
February 2002
Is Time Warner Cable A Villain?
January 2002
10-Digit Dialing
November 2001
Choosing Your Power
October 2001
Damage And Restoration To Electricity, Phones, TV
September 2001
Software -- "Piracy" (Stealing) versus "Open Source" (Freebies)
August 2001
AOL-Time Warner and High-Speed Access. Also, Cell-Phone Ban.
July 2001
Women and Technology
June 2001
Privacy on the Internet
May 2001
Public Participation in Science and Technology Policy
March 2001
Witness, A Different Kind of Reality TV: Using video and the Internet to
February 2001
Phone Frustrations
January 2001
E-Voting
December 2000
Election Special-The Real Tech Issues, from Privacy to Copyright to Sales Tax
November 2000
Transportation
The Bailout Nobody Loves
May 2009
MTA Rescue Plan: Out of Service?
April 2009
Sharing Bikes
April 2009
Making Streets Safer
March 2009
Transportation
Road Wars
February 2009
Transportation
Scaling Back Free Parking Privileges
January 2009
Paying for the MTA
December 2008
Looking for Stimulus Money
November 2008
Federal Transportation Spending: Pork or Priority?
October 2008
The Bus Boom
September 2008
A Pro Parking Policy?
August 2008
Scooter City
July 2008
Albany Puts the Brakes on Faster Buses
June 2008
Desperately Seeking Transit Funds
May 2008
Transportation
Streets Without Cars
April 2008
Transportation
Congestion Pricing: Stop or Go?
March 2008
Helping Old People Across the Street
February 2008
How to Make Buses Faster
January 2008
State of Cycling
August 2007
Tracking and Video: Coming Soon to a Taxi Near You
June 2007
Transportation
Will the Critics Kill Congestion Pricing?
May 2007
Transportation
Future of Pedicabs Remains Uncertain
April 2007
Finding A Parking Space
March 2007
Sustainable Transportation for 2030
February 2007
Lessons From The Number 7 Train Extension
January 2007
Congestion Pricing And The Future Of NYC: Addressing The Objections
December 2006
New Congress Will Move On Transportation
November 2006
MTA Debt
October 2006
Transportation
Transit Riders – More For Work, Fewer For Fun
September 2006
Transportation
Transportation And The New Governor
August 2006
Biking It
July 2006
Faster Buses?
June 2006
Closing The Park Loop Drives To Cars?
May 2006
Staten Island's New Decongestant Plan
April 2006
Congestion Pricing
March 2006
Beyond The MetroCard
February 2006
Sorting Out The Transit Contract
January 2006
Transit Strike -- Negotiating For Respect
December 2005
A Series Of Strikes
December 2005
Bracing For A Transit Strike
December 2005
Transportation Bond Act's Passage May Bring Other Transit Issues To The Fore
November 2005
Transportation Bond Act
October 2005
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Democratic Mayoral Candidates’ Transportation A
August 2005
Security and the NYC Subways
July 2005
Cell Phone Use By Drivers -- A Threat To Public Safety?
June 2005
42nd Street Trolley?
May 2005
The State Budget’s $38.5 Billion Transportation Program
April 2005
Fewer Cars (Same Traffic)
March 2005
Learning from the Subway Fire
February 2005
Pataki's Budget
January 2005
Should Public Funds Keep NY Waterway Alive?
December 2004
Alternatives to Transit Fare Increases And Service Cuts
November 2004
What's Better, What's Worse During Bloomberg's Administration
October 2004
Proposed Fare Increases And The Cut In City And State Aid
September 2004
How Disruptive Will The Convention Be?
July 2004
The Rail Freight Tunnel
June 2004
Proposed Rail Link
May 2004
MetroCard Discounts
April 2004
Awaiting The Fate Of City-Subsidized Private Bus Lines
March 2004
Taxi Fare Hike
February 2004
How New Yorkers Get To Work
January 2004
New Subway Projects And Their Benefits
December 2003
Staten Island Ferry Crash Remains A Puzzle
November 2003
East River Bridge Tolls
October 2003
A Taxi Fare Increase?
September 2003
Ranking The Subway Lines
August 2003
New Projects, Same No Money
July 2003
Budget Cuts In Transportation
June 2003
Making the MTA Play Fair and Square
May 2003
Responding To The Terrorist Threat
April 2003
The Two Dollar Fare
March 2003
Options For The Fare Increase; Bridge And Tunnel Tolls; Transportation Plans In Lower Manhattan
February 2003
The (Proposed) Trains To The Planes
January 2003
December 2002
How did New York get to the brink of a transit strike? Bruce Schaller explains.
December 2002
Debating Transportation Priorities For Lower Manhattan
November 2002
Lack of curb cuts, are one of many barriers to mobility for disabled New Yorkers. Happily, they are an obstacle that will be disappearing -- and none too soon.
October 2002
The Help America Vote Act -- The Good News and Bad News For NYC
October 2002
Election Special--The Transportation Bond Act
October 2000
Voting
New York's Election Labyrinth
June 2009
The Case of the Missing Lieutenant Governor
May 2009
Voting
The Legislature Takes on Election Reform
April 2009
Voting
Filling Vacant Offices
March 2009
Elections Made Simple
January 2009
Election Results 2008 - General
November 2008
Holding Seats
August 2008
Eligible to Vote? Prove It!
June 2008
More -- and Better -- Poll Workers
May 2008
Putting Public Money into Politics
April 2008
The 'Unofficial' Results
March 2008
New Technology Arrives -- Slowly
February 2008
Voting
It's Your Party - and You're Stuck with It
January 2008
Voting
New Voting Machines May Not Meet State Standards
December 2007
Opening the GOP Primary
November 2007
Counting Convicts
October 2007
Campaign 2007: Primary Election Results
September 2007
Guide for the Last Minute Voter
September 2007
Poll Access for the Disabled
August 2007
The Campaign Fundraising Begins
July 2007
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Encouraging Young New Yorkers to Vote
June 2007
Election Reform: Big Changes Proposed, Little Notice Paid
May 2007
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The Final Four
January 2007
Voting
The Sheriff of State Street
November 2006
Voting
2006 Election Results
November 2006
Guide for the Last Minute Voter, 2006 General Election
November 2006
The Attorney General
October 2006
Independent Voters
September 2006
Voting
State Races And Incumbency – How New York Is Not Connecticut
August 2006
Voting
Enabling Voters With Disabilities?
June 2006
Voting Rights Revisited
April 2006
Instant Incumbents
March 2006
Five First Steps At The City Council
February 2006
What Now, Mayor Bloomberg?
November 2005
AFTER CLARENCE NORMAN
October 2005
Another Weird Election
September 2005
Campaign 2005: Elections Themselves Are Issues
August 2005
Ballot-Bumping – NYC’s Bloodsport
July 2005
Poll Workers And Better Elections
June 2005
New Voting Machines
May 2005
Non-Citizen Voting
April 2005
Another Charter Revision Commission, And Three New Ballot Proposals
March 2005
The First Campaign Finance Reports; Also, Preview Of 2006
January 2005
New York City Election 2004
November 2004
Barriers To Voter Registration
October 2004
Identification at the Polls
September 2004
A Broken System Stays Broken
August 2004
Using Republican As An Epithet
July 2004
Non-Citizen Voting
April 2004
Voting Technology
March 2004
Super Tuesday
February 2004
Help America Vote Act
January 2004
New Campaign Financing Proposals - And Who They Benefit
December 2003
Clarence Norman And Non-Partisan Elections
October 2003
Low Voter Turnout
September 2003
Primary Elections, And The Ballot Proposals For November
August 2003
Bloomberg’s Plunge In The Polls; Also: Committee On Vacancies
July 2003
Voting Rights Act
June 2003
The Latest On Term Limits
April 2003
The Hispanic Vote; Also, New Charter Commission For Non-Partisan Elections
March 2003
Special Elections
February 2003
Nonpartisan Elections And Charter Revision
January 2003
Susan Reefer discusses a little-known winner on Election Day -- the ballot proposal.
November 2002
The Help America Vote Act -- The Good News and Bad News For NYC
October 2002
9/11/01-02: Altering The Political Landscape
September 2002
Cuomo Walks
September 2002
How You Can Tell How They're Doing
August 2002
State Campaign Finance Reports
July 2002
No To Nonpartisan Elections
June 2002
Scandals And Voters
May 2002
The New Voter Identification Requirement
April 2002
Changes Ahead?
January 2002
The Remarkable Victory
December 2001
Will Something Be Done About the Board of Elections?
November 2001
Mayoral Election
October 2001
A Plea For Same-Day Voter Registration
September 2001
What Is Wrong With The Board Of Elections?
August 2001
What Is Wrong With The Board Of Elections?
July 2001
Sharpton's Endorsement
June 2001
Michael Bloomberg and the Legacy of Self-Financed Candidates
April 2001
Right for All the Wrong Reasons
March 2001
It's Still Broken
February 2001
Our One-Party Town
January 2001
What Can We Do To Fix This -- and Should We?
December 2000
Election Special--Campaign Finance: In Need of Reforms?
October 2000
In the News: The Primaries
September 2000
In The News: The Republican National Convention
August 2000
Advice for Taming the Dog Days of Summer
July 2000
In The News: Money Matters
July 2000
In The News: The Lazio Effect
June 2000
In The News: Roundup
May 2000
In The News:
March 2000
News Round-Up
December 1999
Waiting for a sign
November 1999
Waterfront
Renaming New York's Strait
January 2009
Waterfront
Beach Guide
July 2008
Waterfront
Beachers
July 2008
A Kill Reborn
April 2008
Planning for the Deluge
March 2008
Making the Best Use of a Prime Resource
October 2007
The Staten Island Ferry Crash Three Years Later
November 2006
Waterfront In Fits And Starts (And Stops)
September 2006
Barging Back
August 2006
New York’s Not So Deadly Waters
July 2006
Unknown (Unused) Beaches of NYC
June 2006
Greenpoint Waterfront Fire
May 2006
Dredging In New York Harbor -- Economy vs. Environment?
April 2006
Waterfront
New York's Port: Beyond Dubai
March 2006
Waterfront
Making The Old Fulton Fish Market Into Something New
February 2006
Old Industrial Buildings on the East River
January 2006
Cleaning Up The PCBs In the Hudson River
December 2005
Clean Enough To Swim In Again?
November 2005
East River Access From The Lower East Side
October 2005
Campaign 2005: Three Ways The Next Mayor Could Improve The Waterfront
September 2005
Waterfront Slide Show
July 2005
Finding Balance on the Brooklyn Waterfront
April 2005
Waterfront Rezoning And Its Shortcomings
March 2005
Leaving The Hudson River Out Of “The Hudson Yard” Plans
December 2004
Getting Federal Money To Improve The Port Of New York
March 2004
Waterfront Stories On Film
February 2004
Eight Ways To A Better Future Now
January 2004
The Lessons Learned In Creating Hudson River Park
December 2003
A New Future For The Great Port
November 2003
The Tragedy And Neglect Of The Staten Island Ferry
October 2003
Staten Island Awaits Its Turn
September 2003
Will The Bountiful Triangle Return?
August 2003
The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway -- A Thin Green Line
July 2003
Rezoning the Williamsburg and Greenpoint Waterfronts
June 2003
Bickering May Lose Us Bucks
May 2003
Hunts Point’s Waterfront Dreams
April 2003
Bringing Sand to the Brooklyn Beach
March 2003
Big-Boxed In on the Waterfront
February 2003
November 2002
October 2002
Wakes
August 2002
Change and Conflict on the Brooklyn Waterfront
July 2002
June 2002
Harbor (in)Security. Also: Harbor Events.
May 2002
A Super Model for New York Harbor
April 2002
Bronx River Rising
March 2002
New Attention From City Hall
February 2002
The Waters Of The Harbor
January 2002
Governors Island And The United Nations
November 2001
Moving Freight On Water
September 2001
Brooklyn Navy Yard
July 2001
Blessing The Fleet
June 2001
In Defense of the Port
May 2001
Who Owns the "578 Miles" of Waterfront, and How Are They Being Used?
April 2001
Ferries
March 2001
Parks and Parking Along the Hudson
February 2001
The Missing Marshes of Jamaica Bay
January 2001
Light at the End of the Rail Tunnel?
December 2000
Election Special--The Major Local Issues, from dredging to access
October 2000
In the News: A Ban on Jet Skis?
September 2000
City Beaches: Safe for Swimming?
August 2000
The City's Crowded Waterways
July 2000
In The News: Trashing the Littoral
June 2000
In The News: Pier Pressure
May 2000
In The News: Waterfront Primer
April 2000

