Our colleagues tell us what they’ve been reading during the powerful, disturbing days we’ve all just been through.

If they aren’t careful, the City might sacrifice their commitment to educational equity in the name of emergency modes of on-line learning. It doesn’t have to be that way.

The problem isn’t isolated decisions by “bad apples.” It’s decisions made at much higher levels

“Zero waste” policies will also create good green jobs, reduce food insecurity, and address climate change.

The crisis, as ever, is white supremacy. But this is not a rerun; this is something new.

To end the effects of structural racism, we will need national standards in public health and public safety.

This moment holds much more than rage at police brutality: the path of the coronavirus has revealed the dense fabric of inequality in a manner we have never seen before.

The increased burning of household trash, a likely side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, could well make an already desperate health situation in many Black and Latinx communities even worse.

Covid-19 relief for tenants and landlords won’t last long. But a swift and dramatic expansion of the existing Housing Choice Voucher program would stabilize their lives.

The author of Last Subway talks about shoring up finances, calming riders' fears, and planning for the future at the nation's largest mass transit system.

For the next school year, here are six key things officials must be focusing on right now.

The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the underfinanced hospitals serving thousands of poor and working-class New Yorkers the hardest. Now it’s up to State and City policymakers to straighten things out and make New York City’s hospital system work better for everyone.

The sectors of the city's economy hardest hit by the Covid-19 contraction rely heavily on immigrant workers Nearly 200,000 undocumented workers have lost jobs, and they've been left out of many unemployment relief measures.

The recently released admission results for next fall’s classes at New York City’s elite specialized high schools fit a racially and ethnically imbalanced pattern that has been the status quo in recent memory.

I’ve learned a lot about what it means to learn and teach with technology. Let me share some advice for parents and teachers. Forget the products. Focus on principles.

The CARES Act will help overcome glaring gaps. But workers and small businesses may not receive aid in a timely fashion. And assistance to immigrants, those without health insurance, and many low-income families will be severely limited.

The Covid-19 outbreak and the massive economic dislocations it has induced have brought renewed attention to the lack of benefits, including employment-based health insurance coverage, typically experienced by workers classified as independent contractors.

Elected officials have asked businesses and workers to shut down and cease what they do out of justifiable public health concerns. The first order of business for economic stimulus is to make whole those whose jobs ended because public safety demanded that.

odega culture still rests on the quick transactions that turn into familial encounters; these brick and mortar strongholds exist at the intersection of community center, public forum, and corner store. But what was once a hyperlocal cultural experience is now reproduced globally via marketing and social media. Each customer that steps inside the bodega is participating in networks that – whether analog, digital, or social – spread the bodega’s influence farther than the corner where it stands.

Tom Liam Lynch – high school English teacher, online learning architect for the New City Department of Education, academic researcher and scholar, and public school parent – is the new director of education policy at the Center for New York City Affairs and editor-in-chief of the Center’s InsideSchools project. He’s putting finishing touches on a “1,000-day” action plan for that work, and this week previews it for Urban Matters.

Critics have argued that the City's rezonings have the perverse effect of exacerbating housing affordability problems. On balance, however, the evidence just isn’t there.

New York State’s Medicaid-induced $6.1 billion budget gap for the coming year stems from reliance on rigid spending caps and fiscal smoke-and-mirror maneuvers intended to project an appearance of smart and disciplined spending control. Now a day of reckoning is at hand.

The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) recently announced new contract awards to nonprofit agencies to provide preventive services to support families who have experienced challenges in caring for their children. The contracts were awarded through a rigorous request for proposals (RFP) process mandated by the City Charter and applicable laws. And therein lies a major problem.

New York City’s unprecedented and ongoing efforts in the realm of affordable housing show what cities can – and can’t – do strictly on their own to solve a deep and persistent affordability crisis.

An exhaustive study of holistic defense of criminal cases in the Bronx found that it reduces the likelihood of a custodial sentence by 16 percent and expected sentence length by 24 percent. The researchers found that it "offers considerable potential to reduce incarceration without harming public safety

A radically new production of West Side Story will open on Broadway next month. And a new West Side Story movie is to come to the screen later this year. We asked Julia Foulkes, a professor of history at The New School and author of the acclaimed A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York, about the new life and enduring meaning of this musical theater classic.

Scrapping the test would make the city's elite schools more ethnically and racially diverse. But it wouldn't be a panacea for ending entrenched patterns of demographic sorting.

The Boogie Down Brigade: Celebrating Bronx Fashion Superheroes The Common Thread Project, the creation of fashion anthropologist Mikaila Brown, has published a comic book-style celebration of what she calls The Boogie Down Brigade. In panel after panel, she spotlights the latest generation of fashionista superheroes shaped by, and shaping, the look and vibe of the borough that brought the world hip-hop: The Bronx.

A Q&A with environmental policy expert Dr. Ana I. Baptista.

When I was a child, the city of Newark, New Jersey was often the punchline of bad jokes about urban blight and decay. But to me it was home. And it shaped my understanding of what I would dedicate my life to pursuing: Environmental justice.

Community Service Society research found that just four percent of the city’s outer borough working residents commute to jobs in Manhattan by vehicle and could be subject to a congestion fee. This compares with 56 percent of outer borough residents who use mass transit to commute to work.