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The New York World helped expose the long-lasting effects of the Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program, ICIP, outing its top beneficiaries in a story describing a defunct program that still costs New Yorkers $650 million this year. More...

On February 12, New York City Comptroller John Liu announced his office's most recent audit of the lease agreement between the City and the Marriott Marquis Hotel that drastically reduced rents for the Times Square hotel and permits the Marriott Marquis to purchase the land at a deep discount when the lease expires in 2017. The Comptroller urges the Economic Development Corporation to renegotiate the terms of the lease, or the deal will  cost taxpayers nearly $345 million.

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GJNY is proud to co-host with Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), a special screening of the award-winning documentary film "My Brooklyn" by Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean, which examines the City's displacement of small businesses at Downtown Brooklyn's Fulton Mall to make way for the upscale development now known as City Point.

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This week, The New York Times released a three-part series on the failure of corporate subsidies on job creation and retention in the U.S. The series includes an interacive feature and a searchable database that accredits Good Jobs First's Subsidy Tracker. Bettina Damiani of Good Jobs New York is featured in the TimesCast, a webcast that accompanies the series.  More...