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A newsletter about New York and the incredible people in it curated by The David Prize.
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Meet five New Yorkers who just won $200K each to make NYC even better (opens the original)
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Every year, we ask New Yorkers a simple but ambitious question and no, it’s not “Why is the G train delayed again?” (although we’d like to know that too…). It’s “What’s your big idea to make this city even better?” The David Prize gives five of them $200,000 of no-strings-attached funding to help turn their vision into a reality. Along the way, the Prize team gets to do one of the best jobs in town: hearing from countless New Yorkers who are quietly (and not-so-quietly) plotting to make the best
A vacant newsstand finds new life at West 4th St. (opens the original)
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Jhody Polk learned the law in prison. Now she's legally empowering New Yorkers. (opens the original)
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