OPINION: Becoming a parent: Rikers Island vs. maximum security prison
I am a mother, a Brooklyn resident, criminal justice advocate and former...
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OPINION: I worked at Rikers Island. It’s time for better jails.
In the oft-referenced words of Dostoevsky, a society can be judged...
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OPINION: You can be a climate activist at the grocery store
“I’ll see you in the streets,” 16-year-old Greta Thunberg...
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OPINION: We need to protect NY’s homemade renewable energy
If New York is serious about doing everything we can to address...
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Who will rescue the damaged Coney Island Boardwalk?
Eye on Real Estate: There’s Adopt-a-Highway. Why not...
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OPINION: Trump administration is stripping health care rights from NY immigrants
Undocumented, legal and native New Yorkers of Caribbean and African descent are...
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OPINION: The R train sucks. But it’s not just a Bay Ridge problem
Complaints about the R train from Bay Ridge officials and residents is...
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OPINION: Keep special ed in DOE’s hands
A few weeks ago, New York City Council member Andy King introduced...
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OPINION: The real story of the Brooklyn Nets is a plutocrat relay race
Last week, Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov announced that he sold the Brooklyn...
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