Tonight, I put out my trash and my recycling. What will happen to it tomorrow morning when the workers come pick it up? Almost no one thinks about this. Especially when it comes to recycling, we are convinced of our own good behavior to an...
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Interesting piece on one of the less discussed problems with the incredible expansion of capital in the cities and thus rapidly rising prices for residents, which is the eviction of.
Using Henry George's critique of inequality in the first Gilded Age as a jumping off point, Elizabeth Murphy has a very interesting essay considering how the new luxury towers for.
This is the grave of William "Boss" Tweed I hardly need to provide a biography of the man whose name is synonymous throughout the United States with political corruption. Tweed, the child of Quakers like another paragon of virtue in American history named Richard Nixon,...
You might think that compared to where you live, New York has a pretty good public transportation system. And by some metrics, that's probably true. But New York needs a.
It's amazing the New York subway system works at all. But the fundamental reason the MTA is so hard to fix, say transit experts both inside and outside the authority,.
In a nation that places many injustices and indignities on the poor, it's good to see at least one of those be alleviated in one place: But the city where first impressions count for everything is about to make the job market a little less...
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655, painted by Howard Pyle, 1917 Glad to see New York City finally acknowledging its long history as a slave market. The.
Would it surprise you to learn that the creation of Central Park required the eviction of an African-American village on the site, as well as a few Irish? Would it.
Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the poor of all races. Well, I'd like to see that too, but that doesn't mean...
Wow: A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to.
I rarely put forth or publicize online petitions but I will make an exception here. The oldest standing monument to the film industry is falling apart and needs preservation before.