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Recommendations on how to prevent a similar shooting flow from within and without the police department.
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Building abandonment is mostly a thing of NYC's past -- but now some investment has gotten too aggressive. Tenants are trying to fight back.
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Instead of complaining every year about the Rent Guidelines Board's spring rite, some say: Let's change it.
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By Kate Pastor >
Waiting times should decline, at a time when need for food aid is increasing.
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The mayor's poverty-reduction initiative offers fresh thinking -- and small-scale tinkering. This synopsis of the new issue of CLI examines whether it will deliver promised results.
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CITY CONVERSATIONS
Debating How To Police
A Challenging Population
Several mentally ill residents recently have been killed in interactions with the NYPD. A panel of experts says the city can act to avoid these tragedies.
Counting Street Homeless:
Volunteer Night Is Flawed
A participant in January's annual one-night count of the unsheltered homeless says it misleads both volunteers and those they're trying to help.
Counting Street Homeless:
'Hope' Is The Gold Standard
The designer of the city's counting method says the approach is sound, and delivers essential information and assistance.
'This Is New York City':
Mayor Draws A Reaction
From labor, urban planning, immigrant advocacy and more, leaders give Bloomberg praise and pans for his State of the City speech.
Child Welfare In the Press:
Painful Wounds Reopened
The former head of one of the minority-led foster care agencies recently discussed in three New York Times articles sees omissions and bias in the series.
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IN THE NEWS
The Big Apple Housing Squeeze
More than half a million New Yorkers spend at least half their paycheck on housing, according to a report analyzing U.S. Census data.
Congressman Anthony D. Weiner
Teachers in Trouble Spending Years in 'Rubber Room' Limbo That Costs $65M
A rare look inside the city's network of "Rubber Rooms" reveals an unprecedented backlog in the teacher discipline system.
Daily News
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AROUND THE WEB
Mapping the Innovation in Correctional Health Care Service Delivery in New York City
This detailed survey looks at the health needs of inmates and those leaving prison, evaluating to what extent services available in their home neighborhoods will be able to help.
Bike Month NYC
Spring is in the air, falling petals are in your hair, and turning pedals are under your feet.
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CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE
Affordable Housing Gaps in High Cost Urban Areas
This new white paper keeps current the insights from a June conference of high-level city, state and private sector housing leaders.
Q&A With Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of CUNY
Goldstein reflects on how different CUNY's needs are today than when he graduated in 1963, and the investments needed to make CUNY a top-tier university.
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