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The de Blasio administration says there’s need for city-subsidized housing across a wide range of incomes. But data indicates middle-class households face a far less severe affordability problem.
For the second time in as many months, the New York City Department of Education this week suspended plans to serve school-lunch items after media inquiries concerning food safety.
There’s new attention to problems diagnosing inmates at Rikers with mental illness. But what about people on the autism spectrum, with a low IQ or dealing with a learning disability?
Some 77 candidates owe a combined $2.1 million in fines and overpaid public matching money, some of it dating back to the 2001 election.
The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
The city’s massive school-lunch program stopped serving frozen pizza in May because of a mold scare. After DOE allowed deliveries to proceed in August, a new complaint surfaced.
Even as borough presidents have been offering incremental changes, like the appointment of several teenage board members in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, several Council bills to reform term limits and mandate demographic reporting from board members have stalled.
Neighbors and activists have worried for months that the building was a canary in the coal mine—a harbinger of developers taking advantage of out-of-date zoning in their community.
Hoping to make gun charges result in convictions earlier and more often, New York City is pursuing another experiment with specialized gun courts. But making illegal weapons charges stick is harder than it sounds.
Some 24,000 legally exempt daycare providers in New York City are enrolled to be paid through public assistance but are unlicensed and operate under very limited oversight.
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