The Next Houston
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... in 1926, it left almost 400 people dead, making it one of the 10 deadliest hurricanes on the record books in the ... Today, the Miami metropolitan area has more than 6 million...
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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row. Seventeen of these schools — which enroll nearly ... mayor’s signature Renewal program, which has spent $...
New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... be problems for fast-growing cities. Cities like Chennai in China, which in December 2015 experienced its worst rainfall in 100 years, ... green infrastructure. Quito, Ecuador, is looking for...
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the...
Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era Party politics and constant Twitter barbs ... vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration...
City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... the Rockaway plan is only the second one to pass. Some 3 ,000 new apartments are expected to be built under the deal — 1,700 of them at the site of a partially-abandoned mall, which will .....
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this ... Department officials said it...
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to...
Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... the past year, New York City’s three biggest providers of emergency food have reorganized in an effort to feed underserved communities and get ethnic ... staples, canned goods and produce to help feed more...
New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... York developer Jonathan F.P. Rose, founder and president of Jonathan Rose Cos. has raised a $233 million real-estate fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a...
Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island is dead. After years of toe-to-toe battling with a small band of critics and a ... on his family’s commitment to...
Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight A ... level of job openings might overstate tightness in the labor market. There were 6.17 million job...
Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September Senate Republican leaders seem increasingly ... effort to undo the Affordable Care Act before the end of the month, asking Congress’s nonpartisan...
Feds Overrule New York's Natural Gas Pipeline Permit Denial
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... Federal regulators have overruled New York state's denial of a key permit for a pipeline expansion fueling a $900 million power plant under construction. The Federal Energy ... needed to expand the...
Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... To UN Leaders President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — ... Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance. The three-story Tudor-style...
New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... problems with the food served to New York City’s 1.1 million students. As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer ... Tuesday, questions are now being raised about servings of kid favorites such as popcorn...
As the Clintons Step Back From Global Stage, Bloomberg Steps Up
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... star-studded marquee attraction during the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, a place where heads of state, celebrities, billionaire philanthropists and ... made deals and gave away...
De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... By 2020 Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday rolled out a $10 million plan to install as many as 1,000 new electric-car ... by 2020. The plan, which aims to have one new charging hub in each borough by 2018, is part...
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog
Release Date:
09/21/2017
More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, .....
Billionaires, Bruised Egos and the Death of a Grand Project
Release Date:
09/25/2017
Billionaires, Bruised Egos and the Death of a Grand Project For Barry Diller, the turning point came ... band of opponents who had tied up his plans for a $250 million park and cultural center...