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Track the action in Albany

May 3, 2013
By Alyssa Katz

Good things happen when nonprofit newsrooms collaborate across state lines — and New York now has Minnesota to thank for helping us keep a close watch on our legislature ⧸ Full Story

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City Council loosens NYPD grip on crime data

April 25, 2013
By Beth Morrissey

New York set to get neighborhood-level maps of incidents reported to police — though many details, including the level of NYPD cooperation, remain to be determined ⧸ Full Story

Amboy Bus Company, which has the single largest school bus contract in the city, is being outbid by smaller — and nonunion — upstarts. Photo: Damien Roué/Flickr

Breaking up big busing

April 5, 2013
By Kate Oberdorfer

The fate of giant Atlantic Express signals the future of school transportation: small, cheap nonunion companies ⧸ Full Story

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PLUTO out of orbit

April 2, 2013
By Beth Morrissey

While a new law liberates the city’s data online, a valuable city planning tool remains out of public reach ⧸ Full Story

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Homicide: The New York World tour

February 11, 2013
By Maura R. O'Connor

How does a plunging New York City murder rate look from a global perspective? We chart the numbers by neighborhood - from Libya to Poland to Vietnam. ⧸ Full Story

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INTERACTIVE: How to pay a $4.5 billion bill

February 4, 2013
By Beth Morrissey

After Congress clears the way, Bloomberg budget shows first detailed picture of Sandy spending city seeks to recoup ⧸ Full Story

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The mayoral money game

January 24, 2013
By Beth Morrissey

As the race for City Hall heats up, candidates cultivate distinct bases for fundraising ⧸ Full Story

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Digging deeper into Westchester’s gun permit data

January 15, 2013
By Alyssa Katz

We run the numbers on pistol permit-holders — with an assist from the database underlying a newspaper's controversial map ⧸ Full Story

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How we farmed the numbers on fruit and veggie origins

November 30, 2012
By Allison Maier

Government bean-counters track hundreds of different food items trucked into the Bronx each week ⧸ Full Story

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How to show a hospital’s healing powers

October 8, 2012
By Curtis Skinner

Making sense of Medicare's new hospital ratings — and New York City's dismal performance ⧸ Full Story

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How we mapped NYPD summonses across the city: Part II

By Maura R. O'Connor

In which we navigate the multiple databases used by New York City courts and update our summonses map to include data from community courts in Brooklyn and Manhattan ⧸ Full Story

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How we mapped NYPD summonses across the city

September 5, 2012
By Maura R. O'Connor

The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed. ⧸ Full Story

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Unpacking campaign bundlers

August 9, 2012
By Beth Morrissey

How we identified which city business associates are raising big buck for mayoral candidates ⧸ Full Story

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Sizing up student debt at for-profit colleges

July 12, 2012
By Curtis Skinner

How The New York World made sense of new federal data on student loan burdens ⧸ Full Story

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The NYPD’s hottest stop-and-frisk spots

May 18, 2012
By Alice Brennan

Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City's 50 most frequent locations for police stops ⧸ Full Story

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Federal aid cuts worsen New York City budget woes

May 9, 2012
By Yolanne Almanzar

End to federal stimulus leaves city budget short of funds for child care and other services ⧸ Full Story

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Study: NYPD violating Kelly edict to end improper marijuana arrests

March 30, 2012
By Alice Brennan

Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police ⧸ Full Story

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Teen violence at Rikers defies reforms

March 27, 2012
By Carmel DeAmicis

Last year, corrections officers at the Robert N. Davoren Youth Center wrote up 1,722 fights, in a facility that holds only about 600 inmates ⧸ Full Story