ARTS and CULTURE

NY Prison Arts and Reentry Programs Persist Throughout Pandemic

While the COVID-19 pandemic may have limited the intimacy of prison and reentry arts programs, many found ways to continue to teach, appreciate and showcase the work of incarcerated artists even during the crisis, by transitioning to virtual and solo lessons.

By Griffin Kelly

Government

New York City Expands Protections For Workers With Criminal Histories

By Ese Olumhense

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

NYC Council Considers Waste Transfer Bill That Would Roll Back Environmental Gains in Queens, Critics Say

By Liz Donovan

COVID-19

Las residencias de ancianos en Nueva York luchan por vacunar al personal

By Liz Donovan

News

Housing and Development

New York’s $2.7 Billion Rent Relief Program Cuts First Checks, Amid Scrutiny

The stalled Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) has issued just $1.2 million of the $2.7 billion on hand to landlords owed pandemic-related back rent.
By David Brand
Voices of New York

Would-be Beneficiaries of New York’s Excluded Workers Fund Face Obstacles

The 290,000 potential beneficiaries of the fund, intended to aid workers who were ineligible for other government COVID relief, are facing a new obstacle: gathering the documentation necessary to complete the application.
By Fernando Martínez for El Diario
Una Ciudad sin Límites

Los trabajadores agrícolas, entre los empleados “esenciales” peor pagados en 2020, según un análisis

Un análisis de Economic Policy Institute muestra que los trabajadores agrícolas ganaron menos que los trabajadores con los niveles de educación más bajos.
By Daniel Parra
Affordable Housing

Manhattan Community Board Votes to Reject SoHo-NoHo Rezoning

The board’s resolution rejects the rezoning proposal for the wealthy neighborhoods outright, rather than submit suggestions for improvement, arguing the plan would fail to achieve the city's affordable housing goals.
By David Brand
housing

NYC Locks Out Many Homeless Applicants From New Federal Rent Assistance, Advocates Say

Adults approved for supportive housing will be precluded from applying for the federal rent vouchers—which attorneys and advocates say cuts off a path to housing for thousands of shelter residents and functions as a proxy for mental health disability discrimination.
By David Brand

Mapping the Future

At a Brooklyn Homeless Shelter, Staff and Residents Readying for Return

With the city’s hotel shelter transfers once again imminent, City Limits reached out to nonprofit providers to talk with shelter staff and visit the buildings where the city puts up New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.
More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

City residents looking for alternatives to nursing home care, particularly those with limited incomes, confront an array of hurdles: lack of affordable housing, a shortage of safe and accessible apartments, not enough home health care aides and waiting lists at many programs.
Nonprofit’s Proposal Would Provide Apartments to Homeless CUNY Students

A 2019 survey of CUNY undergraduates found that 14 percent had been homeless over the previous year—including 18 percent of community college students—while 55 percent said they experienced housing insecurity.
NYC Pays $122 Million to Turn Bronx Cluster Sites into Housing for Homeless Families

The 14 building-deal marks the third time the city has purchased cluster site properties to convert into permanent homes. It also illustrates the complicated reliance on bad landlords to provide temporary shelter—and the business of handing those same owners tens of millions of dollars for their buildings.
NY’s Rent Relief Program Has Yet to Cut a Check Amid Inefficiencies and Frustrations

With seven weeks to go before state eviction protections expire, New York’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) has yet to cut a single check, and the organizations tasked with helping tenants say they’re hamstrung by inefficiencies.

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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

NYC Council Considers Waste Transfer Bill That Would Roll Back Environmental Gains in Queens, Critics Say

Two waste processing companies in Queens, whose permitted capacity may be increased under the legislation, are also facing a potential lawsuit alleging they are in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Many NYC Cooling Centers Closed by Dinner, Despite Heat Emergency

Of the hundreds of dedicated cooling centers in the city, only a portion were open around 7 p.m. Wednesday, while temperatures continued to hover in the low 90s.
Mayor Urges New Yorkers to Turn Appliances Off As City Endures Record-Breaking Heat Wave

This is the city’s second heat wave this year, less than two weeks into summer—and it is breaking a more than 50-year record. Temperatures at LaGuardia Airport were at 100 degrees as of 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, surpassing a high of 97 degrees set in 1964, according to the National Weather Service. Central Park reached 98 degrees, the highest since 2013.

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.
More New Yorkers are ‘Aging in Place’—But Growing Older at Home Isn’t Easy

City residents looking for alternatives to nursing home care, particularly those with limited incomes, confront an array of hurdles: lack of affordable housing, a shortage of safe and accessible apartments, not enough home health care aides and waiting lists at many programs.

The Ride

NYC Council Considers Waste Transfer Bill That Would Roll Back Environmental Gains in Queens, Critics Say

Two waste processing companies in Queens, whose permitted capacity may be increased under the legislation, are also facing a potential lawsuit alleging they are in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Rise in Traffic Crashes Could Make 2021 Deadliest ‘Vision Zero’ Year Yet, Advocates Say

More than 120 people have been killed in city traffic incidents between January and June, a new report says.
Traffic Debt No Longer a Cause for License Suspension in New York

Advocates say the previous policy disproportionately impacted low-income people and people of color.

Investigations

Housing and Development

NYC’s ‘Hollowed Out’ Enforcement Units Struggle to Keep Pace on Housing Discrimination Cases

Source of income discrimination constitutes the most common form of illegal housing bias in NYC. Yet the city has only a handful of attorneys and staffers at the two agencies dedicated to tackling the monumental problem.
By David Brand
nyc mayoral race

Ray McGuire’s Billions in Deals Triggered Thousands of Layoffs

The New York City mayoral candidate says his achievements as a financier will equip him well to steer the city. But many of the mega-mergers he brokered left big batches of workers behind.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

In Advocating ‘Precision Policing,’ Adams Embraces a Term Police Critics Have Targeted

The de Blasio administration used the term to refer to gang crackdowns, domestic violence response, nuisance abatement, efforts to stop knife violence and more.
By Jarrett Murphy
Election 2021

‘He’s a Bit of an Enigma’: What Eric Adams’ Development Record & Housing Plan Tell Us

He's raised big money from real estate, advocated for lots of development, and approved the majority of development deals he's considered—with a few important exceptions.
By Jarrett Murphy
2021 election

Andrew Yang Disrupts the Mayor’s Race, But Some of His Ideas Fall Flat

Do his comments on casinos, yeshivas and the teachers union suggest that his campaign has not done its homework?
By Jarrett Murphy

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ARTS and CULTURE

NY Prison Arts and Reentry Programs Persist Throughout Pandemic

By Griffin Kelly

Government

New York City Expands Protections For Workers With Criminal Histories

By Ese Olumhense

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

NYC Council Considers Waste Transfer Bill That Would Roll Back Environmental Gains in Queens, Critics Say

By Liz Donovan

COVID-19

Las residencias de ancianos en Nueva York luchan por vacunar al personal

By Liz Donovan