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Surveillance City

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From street-corner cameras to high-flying drones and license plate readers, the eye of government is getting harder to escape in New York. In today’s round-up, we weigh the evidence on whether AL...

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While Mayor’s Away: Housing Goals, Teacher Aide Bonuses, and Tax Moves

It is the end of August, even the mayor is out of town on holiday, and there’s time to consider questions like — Should one consider moving for tax reasons? Can NYC get to 700,000 new housing units over the next 10 years? Is it a good idea...

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Mamdani Sets Ambitious Housing Goal

Casanova Residence Groundbreaking Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

The late-summer housing news is a new report from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, setting a very ambitious goal of producing 700,000 new housing units over a...

18 days ago
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Why Small Classes Won’t Save NYC Schools

On the latest episode of The Bigger Apple, we talked with education policy expert and MI fellow Jennifer Weber about the history of school choice, the myth of the “small school” and “small class” as a fix-all, and some common-sense reforms...

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Can New York Stay a City for Families?

New York is known for its neighborhoods. Walkable, safe neighborhoods are also the built environment most likely to produce capable participants in democratic life, political theorist Elly Long suggests. In a walkable city “a child learns o...

24 days ago
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  • Nicole Gelinas

    author, Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back its Streets from the Car

  • Stephen Eide

    Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of Homelessness in America.

  • Danyela Souza Egorov

    Founder of Families for NY, Fellow at Manhattan Institute, Vice-President of CEC District2

  • Liena Zagare

    Fascinated by cities and curious about the policies shaping New York's future. Editor at @thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute

  • Jennifer Weber

    Ph.D. | Fellow, Manhattan Institute| Writing on education, behavior, and culture.

  • Eric Kober

    Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

  • Liena Zagare

    Editor of the Bigger Apple

  • Carolyn D. Gorman

    Policy analyst and researcher interested in how American society has sought to address mental illness.

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