Tensions Rise as New York City Steps Up Response to Measles

An order to require immunizations in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community seemed to mobilize vaccine skeptics. Others worried that the effort did not address the root of the problem: misinformation. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/nyregion/measles-outbreak-ny.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…

Critic’s Notebook: It’s a Crumbling Road to Despair. Can New York Fix the B.Q.E.?

There are a number of promising plans to repair the detested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But solving the problem will take an act of collective will. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/arts/design/bqe-construction-nyc.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

New York’s Best Schools Need to Do Better

Yet again, the paucity of black and Latino students admitted to New York City’s elite public high schools is cause for alarm, and action. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/new-york-specialized-high-schools-black-hispanic.html?partner=rss&emc=rss