To ensure that the City has adequate funding to cover the cost of its contracts and to prevent corruption in City procurement ...

Superstorm Sandy laid bare the vulnerabilities of New York City’s coastal communities and infrastructure. The storm resulted in the deaths of 43 city residents and caused damages estimated at $19 ...

Allegations from the public that New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) officers have used excessive or unnecessary force increased significantly during the Adams Administration, [1] increasing ...

New York City’s Local Law 97 (LL97), the most ambitious city-wide building energy law in the country, will go into effect in 2024, reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the building sector 40 ...

On July 30, 2022, New York City (NYC) declared an emergency in response to the spread of the monkeypox virus (MPV), for which 150,000 residents were estimated by the City’s Health Commissioner to be ...

Every winter thousands of tenants in New York City struggle to ensure their landlord provides adequate heat in their homes, leaving them with no reprieve during frigid nights. Living with no heat can ...

While gun violence in New York City has declined since its peak in the 1990s, shootings persist and are heavily focused in a small handful of neighborhoods including the South Bronx, Brownsville, East ...

Lengthy court case processing times have grown worse in recent years and are contributing to DOC’s increased jail population. Aligning with national standards would save up to $877 million annually ...

Fatalities and serious injuries resulting from traffic crashes are persistently high in New York City. Deadly crashes surged in 2020 and remain at elevated levels relative to pre-pandemic years. This ...

New York City’s human service contractors deliver critical services to residents every day, representing $8 billion in spending in Fiscal Year 2024. With federal funding for nonprofit service ...

How do you address the challenges of a public school system with just under one million students across over fifteen hundred schools, where some schools face severe overcrowding and large class sizes, ...

Overtime spending has been a persistent budget challenge in New York City for more than a decade, rising from $1.66 billion in FY 2015 to $2.71 billion in FY 2025. The New York City Police Department ...