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State Denies Indian Point Water Quality Certificate (TreeHugger) State Seeks Mobile App Ideas for Parks (GovTech) Secrets Under a Chinatown Street (The Real Estate) Mapping the City’s Bodegas (Edible...
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The New Graffiti Removal Laws (Habitat Magazine) Cartoonist’s Take on Paladino (Adam Zyglis) Upstaters Debate Gas Drilling (The American Prospect) Renter’s Rights Flash Cards (Idealist in NYC) Taking...
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Color Photos of the Lower East Side from 1942 (citynoise.org via Emergent Urbanism) Cartoonist’s Take on Espada Scandal (Matt Davies) Forest City Ratner Spent Over $1 Million on Lobbying in 2009...
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Fixing Community Benefits Agreements (DMI Blog) EPA Recognizes New York Environmental Organizations (City Parks Blog) The 1939 World’s Fair (Wired) Excessive Landmarking Threatens Manhattan (City...
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Century Old Temperature Readings Show Climate Change (The Earth Institute) Is Carrion Suited to be Lt. Governor? (Next American City) Reflecting on the White House Office of Urban Affairs (DMI Blog)...
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Cataloging the City’s Community Gardens (Edible Geography) The Remnants of New York’s Tenement Ornamentation (The Atlantic) A Mentoring Program to Keep Young Talent in New York (NY Tech Meetup) The...
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St. Vincent’s Was Only Hospital Supporting Home Births (The Guardian via Serf City) Panel Blasts State Transportation Department Spending (Tri-State Transportation Campaign) New Entrant to Espada Race...
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Reassessing Lindsey’s Mayoralty (The American Prospect) Small School Reform and City Students (TCRecord) Times Paywall to Encourage Linking (MediaMemo via NYConvergence) Government Social Media...
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City Unveils Transit Delay Verification System (Second Avenue Sagas) School Nurse Cuts Would Hit Private Schools Hardest (IBO Web Blog) Cartoonist’s Take on Lack of State Budget Cuts (Matt Davies)...
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Made in Brooklyn (Metropolis) Lost City Blog Closes Shop (Lost City) Investing Fully in the Northeast Corridor (The Transport Politic) Northeastern States Submit Joint Planning Application (Regional...
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Open Data Standards for City Agencies (Urban Omnibus) State Passenger Rail Costs Set to Soar (Tri-State Transportation Campaign) The High Cost of Free Parks (Next American City) Out and About with...
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State Ranks Highest in Per-Student Spending (NY Fiscal Watch) Urban Farming as Sustainable Development (Inhabitat) PULP Funding Left Out of State Budget (PULP Blog) Is the State Budget Balanced?...
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The Making of Manhattan’s Elite Welfare Farmers (New York Press) Federal Money for Transit Construction, but Not Operations (Second Avenue Sagas) Against Charter Mandated Budget Formulas for Some...
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MTA Subway Data Released (Spatiality) Chamber Refuses Espada’s Millions in Pork (Bronx News Network) Fare Box Unrest Coming Soon (Again) (Regional Plan Association) Advocates: State Analysis...
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Smart Grid Battles the Heat Wave (GOOD via Planetizen) Sheridan Study is Questionable (Tri-State Transportation Campaign) 33rd Senate District Candidates on the Issues (Bronx News Network) Why the City...
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The Reinvention of Al Sharpton (Newsweek) High Line Mini Video Documentary (Monocle via Planetizen) Historic Maps Layered Onto the Current Street Grid (Spatiality) More Issues from 33rd Senate District...
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State Ends Prison Gerrymandering (Wall Street Journal) New Investigative Journalism Publication Coming (Broadcasting & Cable via NYConvergence) New Solar Powered Carousel in Chelsea (Inhabitat)...
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Ground Zero Mosque Would be Green (The Daily Beast via greenbuildingsNYC) Interactive Tool for Tracking MTA Capital Plan (Second Avenue Sagas) Community Gardens as Green Infrastructure (SWIM Coalition)...
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City’s Open Data Sets Allowed to Stagnate (Spatiality) Mosque Hatred Symptom of Viscous Cycle (The American Conservative) Two Cheers for American Tolerance (Reason Magazine) Ground Zero Imam: ‘I Am a...
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Group Picked for Living Wage Study Called Biased (Bronx News Network) Claim that America has Killed More than Islam is Fact (The American Conservative) Mosques Curb Domestic Radicalization (The...
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