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** Borough Jails Plan Enters Key Phase ([link removed])
Taxi Drivers Call for Bailout, Citing City’s Role in Crisis ([link removed])
Call to Shift Development Away from Areas at Highest Climate Risk ([link removed])
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** Critical Voice for Ethnic Community Press Re-launches at City Limits News
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Borough Jails Plan Enters Key Phase
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‘The plan that is in progress right now is the right plan, it’s one that is viable, it’s moving.’
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** Councilmember & Taxi Drivers Call for Bailout, Citing City’s Role in Crisis
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Brokers and lenders convinced drivers to take out risky loans they ultimately could not afford. But drivers and their allies say the city, too, profited from the industry’s downfall.
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** Call to Shift NYC Development Away from Areas at Highest Climate Risk
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The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.
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** 10 NYCHA Senior Centers to Remain Open
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Funding was restored to 10 senior centers at NYCHA buildings that were slated to close due to budget cuts.
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** Housing Update: Landlords Lawsuit Challenges Entire Stabilization System
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The housing news you might have missed this week.
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** MAX & MURPHY
Leading Advocate for Transit Sizes Up MTA’s Progress
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John Raskin talked about the big problem that unites all of the other challenges facing the subway, buses and commuter trains: The lack of accountability in the transit system as it now exists.
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** NYC Needs to Think Bigger—and Better—About Improving Infrastructure
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‘Infrastructure is a public good. And land value—commonly-owned, socially-created wealth—can be tapped to keep this public good alive and well.’
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** Avoid Another Amazon by Learning from Essex Crossing
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‘Treating the Amazon HQ2 project as a proxy for all new development was an error in judgement.’
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