Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. After Mayor Bill de Blasio shut down the city’s public schools in mid-March, teachers were ordered to report to classrooms to receive in-person training on the “distance learning” they’d be practicing with their students. At P.S. 139 in […]
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How Mike Bloomberg’s NYC Homeless Record Clashes With Campaign Promises
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg last month vowed to cut homelessness in half by 2025, if elected — doubling spending to $6 billion and guaranteeing rent vouchers for the “extremely poor.” “Mike will make […]
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It’s Manhole Explosion Season: What You Need to Know About a Century-Old Problem
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Osman Bah was driving his taxi through Midtown when an underground explosion shot four heavy manhole covers into the air. The blast near Lexington Avenue and 44th Street sent one of the metal covers […]
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How Shelter Chaos Drives Many Homeless to Live on Streets and in Subways
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The night Jeffrey Wolford came in off the frigid sidewalk seeking warmth in Manhattan’s 30th Street Men’s Shelter last winter, it was too late to get a bed. He was assigned a plastic chair, […]
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NYCHA’s Post-Sandy Rebuild Mired in Delays and Dubious Contracts
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. In March 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio trekked to Brooklyn’s Red Hook Houses to announce what he dubbed the biggest single Federal Emergency Management Agency grant in history: $3 billion to rebuild and upgrade […]
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Flirting With Disaster: Flood Zones Still Uninsured Years After Sandy
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Seven years after Superstorm Sandy deluged New York City, more than eight out of 10 properties in coastal areas the federal government deems extremely vulnerable to the next disaster are without flood insurance, an […]
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Gunshot Victims Have Highest Chance of Dying in Queens
This piece was produced in partnership with The Trace and Measure of America. During the first 2020 presidential debate in June, then-candidate Mayor Bill de Blasio touted New York City’s drop in crime. But even as the number of shootings has dramatically decreased across the city over the past decade, a troubling trend has emerged: […]
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NYCHA’s $250 Million No-Bid — and Sometimes No-Work — Repair Jobs
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. Low-level city Housing Authority managers have doled out thousands of no-bid repair contracts totaling over $250 million to a select few vendors in recent years — ignoring corruption warnings, an investigation by THE CITY […]
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A Reading ‘Crisis’: Why Some Parents Created a School for Dyslexic Kids
This article is a collaboration between Chalkbeat and THE CITY Some city parents were so desperate to get their dyslexic children the reading instruction they couldn’t find in the public school system that they rewrote the script — by founding their own school. Bridge Preparatory Charter School on Staten Island will open its doors to […]
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Despite Diversity Gains, Top NYPD Ranks Fall Short of Reflecting Communities
Additional reporting by Graphics By Audrey Carlsen and Kazi Awal Nearly 70% of New York City’s residents are Hispanic, black, Asian or mixed race — a non-white majority that’s steadily solidified since the 1980s. But over at One Police Plaza, the top ranks of the New York City Police Department appear to be frozen in […]