Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. As Manhattan collects applications for a new round of community board members, surveys show how the current crop falls short of resembling the borough. Overall, board members are older than the borough’s population, homeowners […]
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Staten Island Pledges to Fix Failure to Track Community Board Diversity
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Staten Island Borough President James Oddo vowed Wednesday to compile demographic data on community boards after THE CITY revealed the borough failed to collect and report the information. “We will be drafting a letter […]
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Does Your Community Board Reflect You and Your Neighbors? Find Out.
Additional reporting by Clifford Michel Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Six out of 10 community board members in The Bronx’s Morris Park are white in a neighborhood where only 22% of people are. At Midtown Manhattan’s community board, men […]