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New Yorkers Share Stories About Riding the Rails

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By Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lehrer Verified, Setha Low, Kim Phillips-Fein
| Vital City Verified
By Nicholas Dagen Bloom “What makes your program unique?” This question from a prospective urban planning student gave me pause. Like all planning programs, we at Hunter College offer a mix of classes, professors, studios and social vision. However, none of these features, I have to admit, are truly unique to us. Half in jest, I told him that, as far as I knew, we were the only planning program in the nation with a subway station in the basement.
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Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?

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By Jamelle Bouie Verified, Brian Lehrer Verified, Amy Walter Verified, Lina Newton
| Open to Debate
When you think about the world’s most intractable problems, racial inequality is among the most challenging. Societies have grappled not just with how to treat community members equitably in public spaces, but how to judge individuals based on qualities that extend beyond race in personal interactions. For many decades, some have pointed to “color blindness,” or treating people without regard to race or ethnicity, as the best way to promote equal opportunity.
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Look up and look around at our friends the trees

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By Brian Lehrer Verified, Marielle Anzelone
| New York Daily News Verified
Aside from the annual choice between a spruce or fir for our living rooms, trees don’t get much attention. Quietly, without notice or fanfare, trees are doing critical work. They cool us off in the sticky heat of summer, beautify our neighborhoods in their autumnal splendor, and exhale the oxygen that we breathe. Yet we barely recognize their outsized role in our daily lives. So Marielle had an idea: What if we took the time to get to know our arboreal neighbors more intimately?
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