What works in New York City
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Evidence snapshot for New York City
New York City has implemented several evidence-based programmes with measurable social outcomes. Senior Planet's digital-literacy classes for NYCHA residents reached roughly 10,000 low-income older adults and found trained seniors were about half as likely to report worsening depressive symptoms, with over half reporting feeling less lonely—20 percentage points higher than the comparison group. Shifting Boundaries, a middle-school intervention against sexual harassment and dating violence, found reductions in peer sexual violence perpetration in its building-only condition across randomised trials. However, NYC's Local Law 144 on bias-audit disclosure for automated hiring tools shows an enforcement gap: between July 2023 and June 2025, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection received only two complaints and identified just one compliance violation despite evidence suggesting widespread non-compliance.
Drawn from: Fly Like an Eagle — Senior Planet's NYCHA Digital-Literacy Program Cuts Loneliness Among NYC Public-Housing Seniors · Shifting Boundaries — New York City's Randomised Building-Level Intervention Against Sexual Harassment and Dating Violence in Middle Schools · Girls Who Code — Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap Through Summer Programmes · New York City's Local Law 144 — Mandatory Bias-Audit Disclosure for Automated Hiring Tools, and Its Enforcement Gap · NYC's Generative-AI Moratorium — New York City Restricts Student AI Use From Pre-K Through Grade 8 · Newsela — AI-Leveled Reading Content Backed by Four-State ESSA Tier II Evidence · Local Law 35 — New York City's Annual Public Inventory of Municipal Algorithmic Tools · NYC's Gale-Shapley High School Matching Algorithm — Scale, Audits and Unaddressed Equity Gaps
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +11 pts 58 here · 47 average
Weaknesses
Scalability beyond pilot -8 pts 54 here · 62 average
Equity & inclusion -8 pts 42 here · 50 average
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Sustainability -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Evaluated outcomes -12 pts 67 here · 79 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 37 average
Achievement / evidence -21 pts 67 here · 88 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Innovation level -25 pts 37 here · 62 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -56 pts 33 here · 89 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: New York City. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Girls Who Code — Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap Through Summer Programmes · 74
NYC's Generative-AI Moratorium — New York City Restricts Student AI Use From Pre-K Through Grade 8 · 53
Newsela — AI-Leveled Reading Content Backed by Four-State ESSA Tier II Evidence · 53
Local Law 35 — New York City's Annual Public Inventory of Municipal Algorithmic Tools · 53
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
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