Top Stories

People of Color are Dying at Higher Rates from COVID-19, Despite Class
A look at death rates in 10 big cities indicates that even when accounting for poverty, race affects the risk of succumbing to the coronavirus.

Senior Services Start to Feel the Pain of City’s Budget Cut
The 2021 budget left out $15 million in previously promised money, and advocates are just now getting a look at what the reduced funds will mean for aging services.

‘Restore Mother Nature’ Bond Act Won’t Be on This Year’s Ballot
If passed by voters, it would have provided funding for flood-mitigation work, efforts to restore fish and wildlife habitats and projects to assist communities impacted by environmental injustice.

Housing Advocates Still Hope to Save Funding for Affordable Construction
The recently passed budget shifted capital spending on housing to later years. But some in the housing world think good news from Washington could lead the city to change course.

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Lo que necesita saber: Cómo los inmigrantes indocumentados pueden defenderse de desalojos
'Cómo los inmigrantes indocumentados pueden defenderse de desalojos'

Los defensores de inmigrantes piden a los gobernadores de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey mayores acciones en los centros de detención
Una coalición de organizaciones que defienden a los inmigrantes pidieron a los gobernadores de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, que terminaran la renovación y/o modificación de contratos que existe entre los gobiernos locales y el gobierno federal o cualquier agencia federal con el fin de detener a los inmigrantes.

Opinion: To Avoid Rats, Odors and Inequity, NYC Must Redesign its Organic Waste System
'The system needs a redesign, so the city can affordably collect all organic waste, transforming an inequitable problem into a valuable resource,’ says Clare Miflin, founder of the Center for Zero Waste Design.

Opinion: COVID Gives NYC a Chance—and Urgent Reasons—to Redesign its Transit System
As American cities gradually reopen for business, millions of New Yorkers have been asking themselves the same question: How will I get myself safely to work?  It's time to redesign the city's transit system — for good, says Keith O’Connor,  Director of Urban Design and Planning at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Luke Bridle, an Associate Director at SOM. 

Opinion: Given Risk of Tech Abuse, Online Learning Must Include Sex Ed
‘As the city plans for a return to schools, comprehensive sex education for students, with a focus on healthy relationships, needs to be part of those plans,’ says Stephanie Nilva, the Executive Director of Day One.

Opinion: How NY Can Stop the Exploitation of Construction Workers Like Me
'I know many Black women and formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who struggle to re-enter our economy and society while working in exploitative nonunion construction jobs like the one I had at Hudson Yards,' says Tierra Williams, an advocate and an organizer with Laborers’ Local 79.