Adi Talwar
Leigh Beckett does not speak with an American accent. So he is very much at home in New York.
For some new New Yorkers, the city is the place where they’ve always belonged. For Leigh Beckett, that was a truth even his dying mother in the UK could see.
One of the largest polling sites in the Bronx is situated at Coop City, serving 19 election districts.
Friends old and new joined us to celebrate.
This week, City Limits has examined how New York City’s water renaissance is working out in two places that represent our waterfront past and present: Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay. Here are images from both:
The bay is considered the crown jewel of the city’s green spaces, home to hundreds of species of birds, fishes and marine life. It’s a ecosystem unique within the entire Northeast coast just a hour subway ride from downtown Manhattan. The proximity to the city makes Jamaica Bay a unique wild environment in urban setting but is also its major threat.
The street-art movement was never dependent on one space, and since 5 Pointz’s demise, new work has shifted to new spots or to ones that were already operating. The long-running Welling Court Mural Project near the Astoria waterfront is one of the latter.
Slated for a rezoning, framed by rivers, tethering Manhattan to the Bronx, Inwood is a neighborhood where blue-collar work abounds.
Read the City & State/ City Limitsseries on “Closing Rikers.”
It’s common on the streets of New York to see new neighborhoods rising from old ones. Along the eastern shore of Staten Island, however, a very different process is now underway.
New York City’s ultraviolet disinfection facility combines steel, light and water in an effort to prevent waterborne illnesses from afflicting New Yorkers.
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