Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... A report produced by Community Boards 4 and 5 last year expressed support for the general vision of the rezoning ...
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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side
Release Date:
09/13/2017
The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year , the New York Public Library released plans for a total ...
Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... City Council seats. But even if they both survive, next year ’s City Council will have fewer women, down from 13 ...
Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force
Release Date:
09/14/2017
In New York’s most troubled neighborhoods, Service Year members are teaching their neighbors environmental sustainability — all the while learning essential job skills for the workforce.
Data-Driven Gender Equality
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created a three- year , $80 million initiative to generate more reliable data ...
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
Release Date:
09/18/2017
Drug companies and doctors have been accused of fueling the opioid crisis, but some question whether insurers have played a role, too.
Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year , rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human ...
Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame and fluorescent...
The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... their parents have not paid. (In one notable example last year , an Alabama student was forced to walk around with “I ...
New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together
Release Date:
09/19/2017
This conversation features Cynthia Agyeman , Community Organizer & Amy Blumsack , Community Action Program Director at Neighbors Together
Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way
Release Date:
09/19/2017
A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.
At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... to 12 when the next Council is seated in January, if this year ’s elections continue as expected. There has been ...
Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?
Release Date:
09/22/2017
A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.
Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness
Release Date:
09/25/2017
It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.
Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... plans for the three-for-one stock split he announced last year that would have reclassified some stock as nonvoting ...
A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Officials tried to relocate auto mechanics from Queens to the Bronx to make way for a splashy new Willets Point real-estate project. What went wrong?
How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... almost every health bill that Republicans proposed this year called for subjecting the program to caps, so that idea ...
Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing
Release Date:
09/27/2017
... experimentation has picked up sharply of late. Early this year , Finland began a trial program directed toward the ...
Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...