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Abigail Savitch-Lew

Abby is a born-and-raised Brooklynite with a passion for land use issues and long-form journalism. Prior to City Limits, she worked as a freelancer for several publications including YES! Magazine, Colorlines, The Nation, Dissent Magazine and Jacobin. She has appeared as a guest on BRIC TV, CUNY TV, and BronxNet and is a winner of an Ippies award from CUNY's Center for Community and Ethnic Media. Abby also loves writing fiction and is currently working on a novel that blends her family's immigration story with meditations on the deindustrialization and gentrification of Brooklyn.

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Meet Our Summer 2021 NYC Youth Reporters

Abigail Savitch-Lew | July 19, 2021

This year, the City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY) is launching its first email newsletter, where the work of our youth interns will be delivered straight to your inbox.

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NYC is Expanding Resources for Students’ Mental Health. But Is It Enough?

Abigail Savitch-Lew | June 29, 2021

The de Blasio administration has proposed an increase in spending for student mental health initiatives, but advocates and council members are pushing for more.

COVID-19

NYC Youth Struggling with OCD Face Compounded Challenges in Pandemic

Abigail Savitch-Lew | April 23, 2021

‘I don’t know that the diagnostic incidents of OCD has gone up, but the symptom occurrence and the severity has exacerbated with the pandemic,’ says Theresa Hsu-Walklet, a psychologist and the assistant director of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Integration Program at Montefiore Medical Center.

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To Test or Not to Test: The Latest on New York’s COVID-19 Screening Saga

Abigail Savitch-Lew | April 13, 2020

The mayor and governor have taken different approaches to testing, but now they agree we need more of it. But who will get it? Where? And to what end?

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Bronx and Other Hard-Hit Communities Cry Out for COVID-19 Resources

Abigail Savitch-Lew | April 9, 2020

As an increasing number of reports reveal COVID-19 is having a disproportionate impact on low-income, majority minority areas of New York City, leaders in the South Bronx and in other communities have been demanding a more targeted response.

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Mutual Aid Movement Playing Huge Role in COVID-19 Crisis

Abigail Savitch-Lew | April 3, 2020

Over the past few weeks, advocacy groups, veteran volunteers, and everyday residents across the five boroughs have stepped up to form groups and projects that assist vulnerable New Yorkers.

Housing and Homelessness

New Data Confirms Familiar Concern: Low-Income NYers Face Harshest Housing Market

Abigail Savitch-Lew | October 30, 2018

Even taking Section 8 and other assistance programs into account, it’s still the poorest New Yorkers that struggle the most with housing costs.

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A Detailed Breakdown of the Rose-Donovan Debate for SI House Seat

Abigail Savitch-Lew | October 17, 2018

The candidates clashed on immigration, opioids, the president and their campaign fundraising.

Election Watch 2018

Amid Key Congressional Race, Voices from the Swing Borough on Donovan, Rose and Trump

Abigail Savitch-Lew | October 16, 2018

We spoke to residents of Staten Island—site of one of the fall’s most closely watched Congressional races—about their borough’s most pressing issues and whether they intend to swing blue or red this November.

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Brownsville Plan Gains Momentum, Sparks Hope and Anxiety

Abigail Savitch-Lew | August 29, 2018

The one-year-old Brownsville Plan includes no rezoning and long-sought community resources, but many residents still have concerns about gentrification and the details of implementation.

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