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Policy Recommendations for New York City’s New Mayor
DecideNYC has aggregated over 70 policy recommendations meant to inform the new mayoral administration, New York City government and the public and to bring attention to these important issues. Visit https://www.decidenyc.com/policy-recommendations-for-mayor-bill-de-blasio/ for more information.
(organized in alphabetical order by issue, with “Various” at the end)
Affordability
Aging & Seniors
- Council of Senior Centers and Services of NYC
- New York Academy of Medicine’s ”Age-Friendly NYC: A Priority for the Next Mayor”
Budget
- Citizen Budget Commission’s “The Most Important Economic and Fiscal Decisions Facing the Mayor”
- New York City Independent Budget Office’s “Budget Options for New York City”
Child Welfare
- Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York’s Healthy, Housed, Educated, and Safe: Recommendations to Make NYC a Better Place for Children
Education
- A-Plus NYC PS 2013 Education Road Map
- Alliance for Quality Education policy page
- Students First NY Policy Agenda
- Families for Excellent Schools’ “FES Parent Demands for the Mayor of NYC”
- Center for New York City Affairs at The New School & New York City’s Education Funders Research Initiative
- Campaign for Children NYC
- Educators 4 Excellence New York City teacher policy papers on teacher preparation and teacher evaluation
- Focus on Schools by Eric Benson and Geoffrey Decker for New York Magazine
- New York Times Editorial Board on negotiations with the teachers union
- New York Daily News Editorial Board on charter school policy
- Charles Sahm for the New York Daily News on a “school reform truce”
- Sol Stern for City Journal with “Education Advice for the Next Mayor”
- The Daily News outlines recommendations from five education experts
- Bruce Fuller & Diane Ravitch give opinions on NYC education in The New York Times’ Room for Debate section
- Richard Whitmore for the New York Daily News on “Healing the charter-district divide”
Economic Development, Jobs, & Income Equality
- Partnership for New York City’s “Advancing Economic Opportunity”
- Partnership for New York City’s “NYC Jobs Blueprint”
- Jonathan Bowles for the New York Daily News on “What Mayor de Blasio can do to increase middle-class jobs, income equality
- David Fischer for Center for an Urban Future on the mayor’s “human capital agenda”
- Errol Louis for the NY Daily News on bringing New York’s “gray economy” out of the dark
Environment
Food & Hunger
- NYC Food Forum: A Primer for Our New Mayor
- New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College
- Food Systems Network NYC
- Hunger Action NYS’ NYC Food Policy Agenda
- New York City Coalition Against Hunger’s “A Food Secure NYC 2018″
- Joel Berg for City Limits: “Next Mayor Must Put Food Policy on the Menu”
- New York City Food Policy Center (at Hunter College)’s “The Public Plate in New York City: A Guide to Institutional Meals”
Good Government
- Citizens Union of the City of New York’s Good Government in 2014: A Blueprint for New York’s City Elected Officials
- Talia Werber of Decide NYC for City & State NY on City Charter accessibility and revision
Homelessness
Housing
- Build, Build, Build by Christopher Bonanos for New York Magazine
- Batya Ungar-Sargon for Brooklyn Bureau on “Decisions New York’s Next Mayor Will Face on Public Housing”
Immigration
Public Safety, Policing
- Change the NYPD “Safety and Civil Rights for All New Yorkers” plan
- Streetwise and Safe (SAS) “Recommendations to Incoming New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio”
- Urban Justice Center’s Police Reform Organizing Project’s “Changing the NYPD: A Blueprint for Sweeping Reforms” – TBA
Resilience
- Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation
- The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS)
- Urban Green Council’s Roadmap for NYC’s Next Mayor
Taxes
Transportation & Road Safety
- Transportation Alternatives’ “Vision Zero NYC”
- The Pratt Center and The Rockefeller Foundation’s “Mobility and Equity for New York’s Transit-Starved Neighborhoods: The Case for Full-Featured Bus Rapid Transit”
- The Regional Plan Association and Municipal Art Society’s “Penn 2023″
- Make Transit Server the Boroughs by Stephen J. Smith for New York Magazine
- James Panero for the New York Daily News with three steps to “save pedestrians’ lives”
- “Gridlock Sam: How to tame New York City streets” – a ten-point traffic safety plan, for the New York Daily News
- The Tri-State Transportation Campaign: Advocates Outline Sustainable Transportation Priorities for New York City
- Nicole Gelinas for The New York Post on “How taxi innovation could save innocent lives”
Technology
- NY Tech Meetup policy goals
- Beta NYC’s “The People’s Roadmap to a Digital New York City”
- Michael Mandel for The New York Times on making “New York, the Silicon City”
Veterans Affairs
Women’s Rights and Opportunities
- National Organization for Women (NOW) New York City (NOW NYC)’s “Priority Action Items for the Next Mayor”
- Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund’s “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity in New York City”
Various
- New York City Bar Association: “Policy Recommendations for New York City’s Next Mayor”
- The New York City Council Progressive Caucus’ 13 Bold Ideas for NYC in 2013
- Toward a 21st Century for All’s “Progressive Policies for New York City in 2013 and Beyond”
- The American Planning Association’s New York Metro Chapter: “Priorities for the New Administration”
- Crain’s New York’s compilation “list of more than 40 bright ideas” from “dozens of experts” on Land Use, Transportation, Public Safety, Social and Health Services, Government and Labor, Technology, Education, Infrastructure and Environment, and Taxes
- Democracy for New York City’s “Transition Memo for Mayor-elect de Blasio”
- The Manhattan Institute’s site for NYC-related policy reports and analysis
- Community Service Society’s “What New Yorkers Want Mayor De Blasio To Do” (November) & (January)
- New York Civil Liberties Union’s “Restoring New York City: A Civil Liberties Agenda for the Mayor’s First 100 Days”
- Ben Max of Decide NYC’s “For Mayor-Elect De Blasio: Defeated Ideas Worth Stealing”
- NYU Wagner’s Center for an Urban Future‘s Innovation and the City Part I (with 15 ideas from other cities for NYC) and Innovation and the City Part II (with 25 more)
- Columbia University SIPA students’ “Letter to the Mayor” with various recommendations via a Gotham Gazette op-ed
- Outcomes from Talking Transition 2013
- Center for Social Inclusion reports on “Broadband Equity; Energy Democracy; Transportation Equity; Food Systems; & Community-Scale Solutions”
- The City Club of New York on use of public space including midtown east, south street seaport, and more
Comments and questions can be Talia Werber, Content.DecideNYC@gmail.com
