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Education

Most Recent School Attendance Rates Show Steeper Drops for Students in Shelter, English Language Learners

Data released recently by the Department of Education for January shows students living in the shelter system saw the most absences, with a monthly attendance rate of 75.7 percent compared to the citywide rate for all students, which was 89.2 percent.

By Jeanmarie Evelly
housing

NYS Budget on Housing: Rent Relief Victory, Disappointment on NYCHA and Homelessness

By Sadef Ali Kully
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Focus on Eradicating Child Homelessness

By Mirtha Santana and Erasma Beras-Monticciolo
Una Ciudad sin Límites

El próximo alcalde podría enfrentarse a déficits de nueve dígitos en NYCHA

By Jarrett Murphy

News

  • nyc mayor's race
    How Would Andrew Yang’s Mayoral Rivals Have Answered that Abortion Question?

    The Democratic frontrunner has taken heat for his answer to a question in 2020 about how he would explain his support for late-term abortion to people who support limited abortion rights.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • 2021 election
    Dinowitz and Feliz Appear to Prevail in Bronx Council Races

    Ranked-choice voting tallies have been underway in the special elections that occurred March 23.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • 2021 elections
    A Mayoral Forum for the Ages: NYC’s Candidates on Issues Impacting Seniors

    Tune in to City Limits' mayoral forum on aging policy on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 with candidates Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia and Ray McGuire.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • Policy Shop
    Policy Shop: Yang on Broadway, Donovan Talks Trash and the Summer of Scott

    Plus, comptroller hopefuls on investing and sex crime, a DA candidate weighs in on cybercrime and calls for a tenant union.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • Coronavirus
    How to Apply for COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Funds

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) opens on April 12 a nationwide program to help families pay funeral costs for victims of COVID-19.

    By Daniel Parra

Mapping the Future

  • Next Mayor Could Confront Nine-Digit Deficits at NYCHA

    The housing authority managed to balance its books last year, and an infusion of federal support will help it do so in 2021. But budget gaps of $300 million or more lurk in 2022 and beyond.

  • What the State Budget Means for New York City’s People in Need

    A state senator and a policy expert weigh in on how state aid and federal relief affect the policy picture facing New Yorkers and the candidates running for mayor.

  • Opinion: Supportive Housing is the Missing Piece from the Mayoral Housing Conversation

    ‘Supportive housing has been notably absent from most mayoral candidate housing discussions in spite of the fact that our homelessness crisis is the worst on record – and that it disproportionately impacts Black and brown New Yorkers. It is time for that to change.’

  • Opinion: New York’s Pandemic Aid Must Go Toward Truly Helping Tenants

    ‘Our state leaders were handed an incredible opportunity to confront an unprecedented global health crisis that has hit New Yorkers hard. We are calling on them not to squander it but to help us all return to a new New York. They can use the federal funds to cancel rent. They can house all our homeless neighbors.’

  • Housing, Homelessness & the 2021 Race: The Questions Candidates Must Answer

    Experts on housing finance and family homelessness joined the Max & Murphy Show to size up the issues that will confront the next mayor.

Videos

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    A Mayoral Forum for the Ages: NYC’s Candidates on Issues Impacting Seniors
  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: Trains, Plans & Automobiles: Transportation Issues in the 2021 Campaign

    Trains, Plans & Automobiles: Transportation Issues in the 2021 Campaign
  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: Access to Public Information in the Age of COVID-19

    Access to Public Information in the Age of COVID-19
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Podcasts

  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: Un candidato latino a presidente del condado de Staten Island

    Un candidato latino a presidente del condado de Staten Island

    Staten Island no ha tenido un presidente municipal del Partido Demócrata en 32 años y nunca ha tenido un BP de color. César Vargas está tratando de acabar con ambas tendencias.

    By Daniel Parra
  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: What the State Budget Means for New York City’s People in Need

    What the State Budget Means for New York City’s People in Need

    A state senator and a policy expert weigh in on how state aid and federal relief affect the policy picture facing New Yorkers and the candidates running for mayor.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • ► Decorative play icon links to post: Housing, Homelessness & the 2021 Race: The Questions Candidates Must Answer

    Housing, Homelessness & the 2021 Race: The Questions Candidates Must Answer

    Experts on housing finance and family homelessness joined the Max & Murphy Show to size up the issues that will confront the next mayor.

    By Jarrett Murphy

Special Projects

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
  • Opinion: Reinstate the Environmental Bond Act to Aid New York’s Recovery

    ‘Building safe and healthy communities with clean air, clean water, good-paying jobs and access to nature must be the focus of our state’s climate plans. The $3 billion Environmental Bond Act can help pave the way.’

  • Opinion: Let’s Transform NYC’s Waterfront Street-Ends for Equitable Water Access

    'Places to enter and exit the harbor safely in canoes, kayaks, rafts, sailboats, and rowboats, to educate by interacting with the water—or just to touch the water—remain strangely scarce for a city of over 8 million people.'

  • Opinion: Local Law 97 is a Public Health Necessity

    'Cleaning up our buildings in the decades to come isn’t just about creating thousands of good jobs, or combating environmental racism, or fighting climate change. It’s also about improving public health.'

Age Justice
  • Seniors’ Housing Needs are a Special Challenge

    Rents are rising for seniors as they are for everyone else. But a fixed income, vulnerability to harassment and age-related physical impairments raise the housing stakes for elder New Yorkers.

  • Aging in New York: City Wrestles with Poverty Among Seniors

    Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one in five of them are poor.

  • A Mayoral Forum for the Ages: NYC’s Candidates on Issues Impacting Seniors

    Tune in to City Limits' mayoral forum on aging policy on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 with candidates Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia and Ray McGuire.

The Ride
  • Opinion: NYC’s Equitable, Low-Carbon Future Requires Subsidies for Micromobility

    ‘Micromobility has proven its value as an affordable, efficient, and equitable transport option and should play a prominent role as our cities reopen and residents head back to work.’

  • Trains, Plans & Automobiles: Transportation Issues in the 2021 Campaign

    From subways and buses to bikes and ferries, the people who win this year's elections for mayor and other city offices will not only shape how New Yorkers get around, but also how public space and taxpayer money gets used.

  • City Needs More Bicycle Parking to Meet Surge in New Pandemic Riders, Report Says

    There are 1.5 free on-street parking spaces for every car registered in the city, but just one bicycle parking space for every 116 bicycles, according to an analysis by the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.

Investigations

  • casinos
    State Budget Proposal Opens Door for Three NYC Casinos

    The Senate's version of the 2021 spending plan fast-tracks the siting process—even as it carves out tax breaks for existing casinos that are struggling—and gives the City Council a voice.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • Parks
    Nonprofits Say They’ve Felt a Legal Squeeze from the De Blasio Administration

    Parks groups and BIDs believe the city has tried to offload legal liability onto small organizations that are built to rally volunteers and sweep plazas, not battle lawsuits.

    By Jarrett Murphy
  • Justice
    The Limits of NYPD Reform: Is it Possible to Control the Police?

    After a summer of protest, a number of proposals are circulating to strengthen civilian oversight of the police department. They face calls for more radical measures, doubts about effectiveness and memories of a seven-decade effort that has fallen short.

    By Curtis Stephen
  • Economy
    Fear of Traffic and Crashes as NYers Skip Subway for Cars and Bikes

    Driving, cycling and bus usage have all rebounded somewhat since the first two months of the pandemic, but subway and commuter rail ridership remain low.

    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Mapping the Future
    No Longer a ‘Cluster Site,’ But Problems Remain for Tenants

    Dead rodents, broken lights and missing smoke detectors are among the issues at one property moved out of the controversial housing program.

    By David Brand

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