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Across The Fence: The Year In Neighborhoods
From Brooklyn rezoning clashes to Staten Island mafia sweeps, the news in New York happens borough by borough, block by block. No one can possibly keep up with it all – that’s where the countless...
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The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings
Along with newly inaugurated occupants of top city jobs such as public advocate and comptroller, the New Year brings in a host of other leaders at public agencies, nonprofits and elsewhere. It also...
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Taking A Break … To Bring You More of What's Breaking
The first issue of City Limits Weekly this year will also be the last. City Limits is taking a break from regular e-bulletin news production to prepare for the relaunch of CityLimits.org in February....
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Why Not Ease Up On Stop and Frisk?
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, crime in New York City has declined for the nineteenth straight year. In 2009, crime fell citywide, across nearly all categories. If crime goes down...
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Activists Push For New Senate Housing Chair
Pedro Espada is the State Senator representing New York's 33rd District in the northwest Bronx, as well as the Democratic Majority Leader. He's also a businessman under investigation by the state...
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City Won't Vouch For Them: No Solution For Unhoused
It's been over a month since Shemika Billups learned the New York City Housing Authority would not honor the Section 8 voucher it awarded her this autumn. The voucher, which should have gotten...
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Education Reform 101: An Urban High School That Works
In the early 2000s Wingate High School was a symbol of the failure of urban public education. This once-venerable school, founded more than 50 years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, graduated less than...
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Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 9
A video secretly recorded at a Bronx Planned Parenthood clinic is the latest stir-up in a political debate about abortion funding (see our post, and the video, here). A 14-year-old Wakefield girl is...
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Summer Youth Employment Cuts Hit Bronx Hard This Year
Cuts to Summer Youth Employment from Bronx News Network on Vimeo. Bronx News Network executive editor Jordan Moss recently caught up with Bob Altman, the associate director of the Mosholu Montefiore...
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Bronx New Roundup, April 29
(Sorry for the delay today. Lot's going on in terms of getting our newspapers out.)
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Why Do Some Parks Suffer? It’s Complicated
Photo by: Simsala111 Flushing-Meadows Corona Park. Its supporters appear to have beat back an effort to locate a new soccer stadium there. As the U.S. Tennis Association prepared to submit plans this...
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The Next 'Education Mayor?' De Blasio Vs. Lhota on Schools
Photo by: Karla Ann Cote A candidate no longer in the race, Bill Thompson, proposed two interesting ideas for CUNY–a crucial element in the city's public education network. One was a free year of...
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Budgets Cut, But NYC's Libraries Thrive—For Now
Photo by: Marc Fader Despite the growth in demand, city spending on libraries has decreased in recent years, with annual budget cuts bringing city funding down by near 20 percent system-wide since...
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Key Nutrition Program Hits Snags at Farmers' Markets
Photo by: postdlf The Union Square Farmers' Market. When the WIC program incorporated more fruits and vegetables like the ones sold here, there was a dramatic effect on obesity rates. Among the stacks...
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Community Boards Reflect on their Votes For, and Against, Bloomberg Rezonings
Laura Sanburn, Wikipedia CommonsIt was buildings like 'Blue,' on Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side, that drove Community Board 3 to pass a rezoning limiting building heights in the East Village in...
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Advocates Demand Albany Tax Rich to Address Homelessness Crisis
Vocal-NYA statewide coalition of organizations rallied outside the state senate chamber on Thursday to demand solutions to unprecedented rates of homelessness With Mayor de Blasio confronting the...
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City-Sponsored vs. Market-Rate: Which Coops Get a Better Deal from the Tax Man?
N.Y. World (NYPL Scan)A photograph of The Grinnell, at 800 Riverside Drive, at the time of its completion in 1910. The building later became dilapidated, was taken over by the city and converted by...
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Under Lingering Obama Initiative, NYC to Evaluate Fair Housing
City of New Orleans 2016 Assessment of Fair HousingA map of New Orleans from the city’s 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing indicating the number of people with disabilities living in each part of the...
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HUD Announces Delay of Fair Housing Assessment Process
Gage SkidmoreHUD Secretary Ben Carson Earlier this week, City Limits reported that under a lingering Obama-era rule, New York City was about to embark on a process to assess its efforts to...
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