New York, NY — As nearly one million New York City students prepare to return to school on September 10, just 48 New York City Public Schools (NYCPS), serving approximately 27,000 students, use the City’s “School Streets” program to turn adjacent streets into additional outdoor space for PE, recess, outdoor learning, arrival, dismissal, and other activities, according to a new analysis from the Office of Comptroller Mark Levine. The limited reach of the program comes as hundreds of schools face constraints on outdoor space: while the City does not maintain comprehensive data on outdoor...
A Message from the Comptroller Dear New Yorkers, As summer winds down, New York City remains somewhat shielded from the sluggish economy taking hold throughout the rest of the United States. While the stock market continues its surge, private sector employment in the U.S. grew by just 30K in July, falling short of forecasts, and gains in both May and June were revised down. As a result, the three-month average gain fell to 40K and the employment to population ratio...
New York, NY — A new review by the office of Comptroller Mark Levine found the Department of Veterans’ Services’ (DVS) VetConnectNYC, the primary online portal connecting New Yorkers who served with services, has been plagued by technological failures, procurement delays, and weak vendor oversight. The eight-year struggle to make government accessible for veterans online is a microcosm of the greater issue of outdated municipal systems, which are sometimes decades old, as the City seeks to modernize its functions and better serve New Yorkers. “New York City owes our veterans more than gratitude – we owe them a Government that...
New York, NY — New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Connecticut Treasurer Erick Russell, Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg, California Controller Malia Cohen, and Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman today jointly sent letters to several major media companies raising concerns about recent decisions to rollback diversity initiatives and urging them to maintain commitments to building diverse and inclusive workplaces. The letters to Verizon Communications Inc., Paramount Skydance Corporation, Nexstar Media Group, Inc., Charter...
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