The dominant narrative is that New York City’s economy is booming. But it’s only booming for some. In places like Brownsville, Brooklyn and University Heights in the Bronx, unemployment is still more than 10%, compared to the city-wide rate of 4.3%.…
More Dangerous Than Ever, a new report from Transform Don’t Trash NYC, finds that crashes in the commercial sanitation industry have doubled over the last two years.…
Buildings produce almost 70% of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. The city will not meet its climate change commitment of reducing emissions 80% by 2050 unless it targets its big buildings, and unless it take a “whole building” approach that covers the use of fossil fuels, electricity, and central steam.…
The transit system has reached breaking point, and everyone suffers as a consequence. This is the first report to show the economic, equitable, and environmental benefits of that political cooperation, and what it would really like look to combine congestion pricing and a tax on New York’s wealthiest residents.
On October 16th 2017, ALIGN and over 25 community organizations across New York City and State sent letters to Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio calling on them to stop rolling out the red carpet for Amazon’s expansion in New York.…
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