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Articles by Daniel Garodnick
Why the City Council Must Confirm John Mangin
The nominee to lead the Board of Standards and Appeals is the right fit for the challenge ahead. In the two decades since I first joined the New York City Council, I have seen a significant transformation — for the better — in our city’s conversation around housing. In the coming weeks, the City Council has a chance to continue that momentum, and to take another step toward a more affordable city by confirming John Mangin to chair the Board of Standards and Appeals.
When Zoning Goes Too Far
Ratcheting back NYC’s zoning restrictions L&B Spumoni Gardens pizza. The San Remo and Eldorado apartment buildings. Even buildings and businesses as simple as a corner bodega, or the laundromat down the block. All of these neighborhood standbys make New York the city we know and love. And from the unique and iconic to the routine and familiar, they share something in common: They would be banned under today's regulations.
Negotiation Lessons from the Amazon Deal Blow-Up
Announcing the Amazon deal (photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office) Amazon’s decision to abandon its planned construction of a major campus in Long Island City has revealed deep fissures among New Yorkers.
Reinventing the school bus-iness
For years, the yellow school buses traveling New York City streets have had parents, elected officials — and even school bus workers — seeing red. The Board of Education pays more than $1 billion a year to private bus companies that have little incentive to upgrade or improve service. The buses are prone to breaking down, lack air-conditioning and spew diesel pollution that harms our planet.
For a More Accountable NYPD, Improve Information Sharing on Police Misconduct
Council Member Dan Garodnick, the author (photo: William Alatriste) For decades, the New York City Police Department has had an early intervention system to identify officers prone to violence, based on their discipline and complaint history. Yet through leaks last month, we learned that the officers who killed Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham had extensive records of complaints against them.
Why I came around to backing the push to close Rikers Island
When I first heard of the “Close Rikers” campaign, I was skeptical. But after months of research, I am now convinced of the right path forward. We must take the steps today to allow us to close Rikers Island for good. Today, Rikers represents a profound failure of our criminal justice system and a black eye for New York City.
City should buy more foreclosures to save neighborhoods at risk - Crain's New York Business
With nearly 30,000 pending foreclosure cases in New York City last year, this crisis has lingered well past the 2008 crash. One borough has faced the brunt of it: Queens. Foreclosure rates there have jumped by 43% this year alone. Many of the foreclosures are in the southeast neighborhoods of the borough, such as Jamaica and St. Albans.
Rules for Times Square's costumed characters working like a charm
Summer in Times Square is usually chaotic, but these days, there’s a surprising air of calm at the crossroads of the world. New rules implemented last month are reining in the aggressive hawking and hustling that has made headlines over the past few years, and from the look of things, they are working.
Urging more dads to bond with baby: A Father's Day wish
As we celebrate Father's Day, we should turn our attention to an often-overlooked problem: How to make it not only legally permissible for fathers to take time off when their children are born, but to actively encourage more new fathers to do so. I will never regret taking parental leave when my boys were born in 2011 and 2013. But it wasn't a simple choice or one made without reservations.
Brewer, Garodnick & Johnson: A Times Square solution
Nearly half a million people pass through Times Square daily. It is the third-most Instagrammed place in the world. In the past decade, Times Square and the related tourism industry — the city’s fastest-growing jobs sector — created 264,274 much-needed jobs. So, what’s good for Times Square is good for New York City. And what hurts Times Square hurts New York City — and its budget. For many years, things had been getting better in Times Square. Crime was down. Broadway attendance was up.
Guest column: Times Square plazas add much-needed open space
It is a good thing that Mayor de Blasio is thinking about ways to best curb aggressive panhandling in Times Square. It’s not an easy question — as we have seen in recent years. From the costumed characters, to the CD hawkers, to everyone else, it is impossible to avoid being hustled as you pass through.
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