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NYC Housing Calendar, Sept. 29-Oct. 6
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Benjamin Kanter/Mayoral Photo OfficeApartment...
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NYC’s Youth Shelter System Is Running Out of Space
Down 99 beds from this time last year, space is running out in New York City’s patchwork of shelters for teens and young adults, which provide counseling, education, job training and other services....
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Opinion: Gateway Must Become ‘Freightway’ to Reduce Congestion and Meet Our...
“Instead of continuing to overburden already disadvantaged communities, we can bring freight rail through Gateway to a new distribution hub at Moynihan/Penn Station, which is already equipped with...
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El sistema de albergues juveniles de Nueva York se queda sin plazas
Con 99 camas menos que el año pasado, se están agotando las plazas en el conjunto de albergues para adolescentes y jóvenes de la ciudad de Nueva York, que ofrecen asesoramiento, educación, formación...
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Opinion: New York Students Need Solutions from Adults, Not Suspensions
“There is a looming youth mental health crisis that must be addressed, and the professionals who educate our children have the knowledge and skills to help our young people. Suspending struggling...
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Opinion: Buffering NYC’s Waterfront for Resiliency
“Addressing the remaining 60 percent of the waterfront that is hard and non-absorbent cannot be left to chance. The creation of a buffer there will require a comprehensive plan and revision of the...
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With Homeless Population at All-Time High, Public Advocate Calls for Citywide...
A bill introduced in the City Council this week would create a 15-member commission that includes people who have experienced homelessness to study current shelter locations, identify new sites and...
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NYC is Underspending on Climate Resiliency: Comptroller
In the decade since Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New York, the city has lagged in spending federal and capital funds dedicated to recovery and resiliency, a new report found. Some city agencies...
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Opinion: It’s Time to Think Outside the Box to Solve the Shelter Crisis
“It is time for the governor and the legislature to step up to the plate and start acting like a partner to Mayor Eric Adams instead of a spectator. In fact, in recent years the state has been...
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City Watch: Manhattan DA to Crackdown on ‘Systemic’ Tenant Harassment, Deed...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg made good on his campaign pledge to create an investigative unit tasked with cracking down on landlords who harass tenants, developers that cheat government...
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Data Drop: How Deadly Was the First COVID Wave For Black and Latino New Yorkers?
Through Freedom of Information Law requests, City Limits obtained data from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for weekly COVID-19 deaths from March 2020 to the end of July of 2022,...
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The Rent Is Still Too Damn High: Catching Up With Jimmy McMillan
Jimmy McMillan’s performance in a gubernatorial debate in October 2010 sealed his status in New York political lore and cemented a six-word slogan into our vernacular. Today, he is fighting to hold on...
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NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 19-27
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi TalwarWashington Heights. Welcome to City...
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Opinion: Don’t Overlook Disabled New Yorkers in Congestion Pricing Plan
“In its current form, the state’s congestion pricing plan falls short of meaningfully addressing impacts on New York’s disabled community—a community the MTA has neglected for decades.” City Limits /...
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Tell Us Your Hurricane Sandy Story
As the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in New York approaches, City Limits is asking residents to share their experiences of the storm. Where were you, and how did Sandy impact you...
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NYCHA Proposes Voting Rules for Tenants to Opt Into ‘Preservation Trust’
The Housing Authority will host a series of public meetings starting Monday to solicit feedback on how it plans to carry out the voting process, in which NYCHA tenants will choose whether they want...
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Buy-In for Buyouts: 10 Years After Sandy, New York Considers New Funding for...
New potential funding mechanisms—including a measure that New Yorkers will see on the ballot this November—may provide an opportunity for homeowners in areas of high flood risk to sell their at-risk...
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NYC Housing Calendar, Oct. 27-Nov. 2
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Adi TalwarRandall’s Island viewed from the Robert...
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More NYC Students Were Homeless Last Year, Even as Enrollment Declined
Though total enrollment in city schools fell by 3.2 percent, the number of homeless-identifying students increased by 3.3 percent. Those 104,000 students include 29,000 who spent time in shelters,...
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AG Urges New York Officials to Make ‘Deed Theft’ an Explicit Crime
Under current law, state and county prosecutors are bound by statutes of limitations and forced to rely on charges, like grand larceny, that do not take into account the magnitude of the crime,...
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