Reading List
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Gateway Work Still Paused as Hardhats and Pols Beg Trump Admin for Full Funds
On a typical Tuesday morning, hardhats would have been at work on the Manhattan gateway to the country’s largest infrastructure project — and not caught in the middle of a political fight between President Donald Trump and New York and New Jersey. “Pouring concrete, digging, excavating, a little of everything,” said Guido Rivieccio, 49, of […]
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Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will be able to appoint six members to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him a majority of appointees to deliver his signature campaign proposal of a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments. Alex Armlovich, a member of the board who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to a four-year term that runs through […]
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Mamdani Threatens Blanket Property Tax Hike as ‘Last Resort’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented a “last resort” option of raising the property tax rate to close an estimated $5.4 billion budget gap, as Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to resist raising taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations. “We remain firmly in a budget crisis. It is a crisis that we can and will overcome — […]
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Rides Through Apps Are Wheelchair-Accessible Only 7% of the Time: Report
A new report flags how the shortfall of wheelchair-accessible vehicles from the app-based ride-hailing giants subjects New Yorkers with disabilities to longer wait times. The “Left Behind Across New York” report from New York Lawyers for the Public Interest notes that just 7% of nearly 106,000 for-hire vehicles licensed by the city’s Taxi & Limousine […]
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LISTEN: A ‘False Choice’ Between Cops and Community Workers
We have gotten into this mindset where it has to be one or the other, when, in fact, the great majority of the situations would be best handled through co-response: Sending police because there is a potential danger that it would be unfair to have clinicians or outreach workers handle alone — and recognizing there […]
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