Six months after the attorney general announced a program to equip every NYPD patrol officer with life-saving Naloxone, it’s unclear when those cops will get the simple training needed to administer the opiate antidote.
From Congressmen to youth leaders, labor unions to activist groups, the world weighed in last night on a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.
This marsh in the Oakwood Beach area of Staten Island became the final resting place for roofs, appliances and clothes
Damage from Superstorm Sandy in the Oakwood Beach area of Staten Island, Thursday, November 1, 2012.
Two ambitious, two-year projects are underway to understand the ecological state of the forests and wetlands in the city’s park system—and grasp what those spots mean to the New Yorkers who use them.
Poverty’s reach in New York City didn’t substantially change in 2013. But the political urgency of doing something about it did.
The supposed link between disorder and serious crime is as controversial as the policing strategies based on the assumed connection between the two. In one New Jersey city, disorder is common—and rarely threatening—in a public square.
There’s a lot of debate over whether New York should still be doing “broken-windows” policing. But there are also questions about exactly what that theory is, whether it’s worked, and to what extent the NYPD implements it.
Utilities jousting with pols, questions about who owns fiber infrastructure and a mix of efforts to bridge the digital divide: The push to get more New Yorkers on the web is a web of its own.
The trustees of the city’s library systems oversee more than 200 branches and the spending of hundreds of millions of city dollars. How representative of the city are they?
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