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A Century of New York, Above and Below West 4th Street
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The soundtrack of West 4th starts before you even reach the platform. A drummer echoes through the mezzanine while, just above ground, the unmistakable thump of a basketball carries down from the West 4th courts. A few commut...
NYC Agencies Answer to Over 5,000 Standing Council Mandates
Mayor Mamdani has shown a determination to make NYC run better. A key part of this effort has been finding efficiencies in agency processes and cutting out regulations that end up hurting more than they do good by overburdening an agency. A...
Fourteen Ways to Make NYC Community Boards Work Better
Thank you to Sebastian Hallum Clarke, a member of Manhattan Community Board 8, for his contributions to the ideas in this article.
The need for [Community Board] representation remains clear, although the boards’ functioning, as wit...
Manhattan Community Board 3 Jul 2026 Report
As always, the below summary of the Full Board Meeting is not complete but represents my best attempt to highlight key takeaways from the meeting. If you attended the meeting and believe I missed or misstated any important points, please co...
State Capacity Has a New Toolkit
AI has incredible potential to tackle state capacity problems.
The benefits that current Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude can provide as tool builders are particularly powerful relative to the curre...
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