Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Municipal Library Notes - January 2022 SPOTLIGHT ON BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF CENTRAL PARK. The Board of Commissioners of Central Park was established in 1857 by New York State law. Its central mission was to oversee the development of Central Park and uptown Manhattan.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Monthly Publication from the Municipal Library highlighting different relevant topics. Published on a monthly basis the newsletter highlights and compares current topics with similar topics in NY City's history, utilizing various Library holdings.
Customer service related articles from various agencies and, where applicable, includes photos, tables and charts as well as agency contact information. The newsletter is distributed primarily to agency Customer Service Liaisons and is also posted online on the Mayor's Office of Operations web site.
Customer service related articles from various agencies and, where applicable, includes photos, tables and charts as well as agency contact information. The newsletter is distributed primarily to agency Customer Service Liaisons and is also posted online on the Mayor's Office of Operations website.
The de Blasio Administration announced the launch of its first large-scale solar program at NYCHA, which will provide low income New Yorkers, including public housing residents, access to clean, low-cost energy throughout the city and jobs in the growing solar industry.
A report which highlights current economic conditions pertinent to New York City. The report focuses on the state of the U.S. Economy, financial markets, inflation, New York City labor markets and commercial and residential real estate. (January 2019)
Summarizes recent arbitration decisions and analyzing city-wide and national trends in labor relations. These bulletins reflect OLR’s continuing commitment to share information and strengthen ties among the labor relations and HR professionals in City government.
Read OLR’s bulletin summarizing recent arbitration decisions and analyzing city-wide and national trends in labor relations. These bulletins reflect OLR’s continuing commitment to share information and strengthen ties among the labor relations and HR professionals in City government.
The use of sick leave by municipal employees varies widely among agencies. Uniformed employees in the fire, correction, and sanitation departments tend to use sick leave at higher rates than other city workers.
The number of students in the city’s public schools who lived for some part of the school year in New York’s homeless shelters during school year 2015-2016 rose by more than 4,000, or 15 percent, over the preceding year to nearly 33,000.
The number of hospitalizations at public and voluntary hospitals in New York City has been declining for some time, falling from 1.3 million hospitalizations in 2009 to 1.1 million in 2014.
Among the many spending reductions included in President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget are cuts to federal aid for lowincome individuals and families, including cash assistance, food stamps, and Supplemental Security Income.
Each school year there is considerable movement of students who transfer from one school to another or out of the city’s public school system altogether.
As of June, the Department of Education had 131,199 full-time employees. More than 119,000 served in jobs under the broad classification of pedagogues, which includes roles such as principals, assistant principals, teachers, and teaching assistants also known as paraprofessionals.
Last year NYC's five pension systems for municipal employees paid $12.9 billion in benefits to more than 332,000 retirees or their beneficiaries. While many retired city workers remain in the five boroughs, many others collect their pension checks in states and counties all around the country.
Last fiscal year, there were more than 58,000 admissions to the city’s jails. Most of these admissions were of inmates who had previously been in city custody.
New York City collects a mix of taxes that looks much more like those of a state than the typical U.S. city. Today the city relies on personal income taxes, business income taxes, taxes related to real estate transactions.
IBO has examined the shares of reports to the hotline over several years that came from mandated reporters versus those that came from the general public, such as relatives, neighbors, or anonymous callers.
In 2017 the Campaign Finance Board provided candidates running for municipal offices ranging from the Mayor to City Council with a combined $17.7 million in public funds to support their campaigns.Candidates who meet the requirements are eligible to receive matching funds.
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One of Mayor de Blasio’s earliest education initiatives sought to establish 100 “community schools” that provide a mix of academic and other supports to students and their families through partnerships with community-based organizations. By August 2018 there were more than 200 community schools.
An early look, examining the last three and a half years of city employee paycheck deductions for union dues, including the six months following the Janus decision.
Over three-quarters of the roughly 8,000 inmates currently held in city jails are categorized as detainees, meaning their cases have not yet been settled.
Although required under a 1991 law, the city does not publish data by precinct that tells New Yorkers how long it takes the police department to respond to a 911 call—from the initial call to the time officers arrive at the scene.
IBO has looked at assessment appeals brought to the Tax Commission over the years 2013-2017 and summarized the results by number of appeals, property tax reductions, property types, and the borough where the properties are located.
Are the city’s more than 70 public hospitals and clinics located in neighborhoods with heavy concentrations of the uninsured? IBO has mapped the location of public hospital facilities and the share of uninsured in the city’s 59 community districts.
With a growing number of English language learners and an expanding set of programs to assist them, IBO looked at shifts in placements at 1,512 traditional public schools over the four years from 2014-2015 through 2017-2018.
On a typical day in fiscal year 2016, there were about 9,700 people in New York City jails: roughly 7,700 pretrial detainees, 1,200 sentenced to serve time in city jails, and 800 sentenced to terms in state prisons but who remained in city custody.
The ways New Yorkers use their local public libraries has changed. Branch libraries in all three systems have become broader community resources rather than repositories of books and information.
Efforts to rezone elementary schools to increase socioeconomic integration and ease overcrowding can spark vigorous debate in the affected communities. But admissions methods vary across the 32 school districts, and even among individual schools within districts.
The number of inmates in New York State prisons reached a peak of over 71,000 as the 1990s turned to the 2000s, and then fell to 51,743 in January 2016.
As part of our recent report on the cost of subway disruptions to riders and the city, which IBO produced at the request of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, we needed to estimate how much time subway commuters lose to delays.
With the rising number of homeless families and individuals in the city’s shelter system there has been a related rise in the costs of running the shelters.
Whether students with disabilities were recommended a paraprofessional differed based on the type of disability classification and the borough where the student attended school.
The New York City Department for the Aging spent about $110 million in fiscal year 2017 to support programs at nearly 250 senior centers throughout the city.
As part of the effort to improve its fiscal health, New York City Health + Hospitals is counting on increased enrollment in its health insurance sudsidiary, MetroPlus.
Following cutbacks in traditional federal aid for repairing or replacing public housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development created new programs that rely on leveraging private dollars to help address the needs of deteriorating housing developments nationwide.
For years, some providers of city-funded social services have questioned disparities in the funding of their programs, with wide differences in how much support some groups receive for each participant despite offering a similar set of services.
The number of students in grades 6 through 12 suspended for breaking school rules has continued to decline in recent years as the City Council and the de Blasio Administration have fostered policies that promote alternatives to keeping students out of the classroom.