“It has been 10 years since my release, and the memory of extreme heat without air conditioning haunts me, especially as the planet continues to warm each year. One of my greatest concerns now is for those still imprisoned.”
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Opinion: For True Voter Participation, BOE Must Simplify Prop 1 Ballot Language
L. Joy Williams |
“Ballot measures are an opportunity for voters to directly weigh in on policies that affect their day-to-day lives and the future of our state. When incomprehensible ballot language forces voters to cede this opportunity, their voices are effectively silenced.”
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Opinion: A Lukewarm Response to City Council’s Cooling Proposal
Joseph Strasburg |
“Before adding an energy consumption mandate with indeterminate costs and unknown impacts on the environment, infrastructure and affordable housing market, there should be a cool-down period for the city, state and federal government to study how—and even if—this can be achieved.”
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Opinion: State’s Creedmoor Proposal Ignores Our Community Plan
Corey Bearak, Bryan Block, Bob Friedrich, Michael O’Keeffe and Suzanne Peritz |
“Unlike an unsound, speculative plan by Empire State Development to squeeze an outsize mini-city in the same space to be completed sometime after 2040, our Community Plan delivers new units with immediacy serving core needs for the community and society at large.”
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Opinion: Why We’re Getting Arrested at Citibank in Tribeca
Alec Connon |
“For years, Citi has refused to confront the issue of its fossil fuel business. And so, we are there, outside the bank’s headquarters, blocking the doors, being led away in handcuffs in the desperate hope that our acts may trigger Citi’s leadership to finally start treating global heating like the existential threat it is.”
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Opinion: State Government Must Protect New Yorkers’ Rights Under the Green Amendment
Maya K. van Rossum |
“The state is twisting itself into legal pretzels to deny the Green Amendment’s ability to check government action that may be legally responsible for the violations of the environmental rights of New Yorkers.”
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Opinion: Creedmoor Plan is a Chance for a New Generation to Call Queens Home
Will Spisak and Rev. Carl Adair |
“We support the plan’s vision because we see it as a chance to stand up for people just like our parents and grandparents—who struggled bravely to make a life and a future for their families.”
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Opinion: A New Model for Affordable Housing
Mark Levine, Dr. Jeremy C. Kohomban and Yvonne Stennett |
“There are many underdeveloped areas across Manhattan, which could provide tens of thousands more housing units, more than 40 percent of which could be affordable. Strategic planning and investment can transform underutilized spaces into a vibrant, inclusive community.”
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Opinion: Grants Pass Decision Will Only Further Marginalize Our Homeless Neighbors
Josiah Haken |
“This will push an already vulnerable population deeper into hopelessness and despair, rather than offering the ‘tough love’ that might inspire them to pull themselves up by their nonexistent bootstraps.”
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Opinion: Mayor’s City of Yes is Really a ‘City of Cake’
Tom Angotti, Jenny Dubnau and Memo Salazar |
“If Mayor Adams is serious about addressing the affordability crisis, he should direct his city agencies to use planning tools to slow land speculation, tax warehoused property and pied-à-terres, and subsidize housing outside of the profit-making system.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Mayor Adams Wants to Turn NYC Into ‘Cop City’
Priyanka Shetty |
“This project speaks not just to one isolated facility but the current administration’s overarching goal to make all of New York City a ‘Cop City’ in and of itself.”