The mayor has chalked up victories at home and rallied fellow mayors around an activist platform. Sure, this could be another false dawn for the hope of a new, national…
The city honored more than 3,000 such detainers over a recent 12-month period, declined to enforce 1,200 and received $42 million less than it wanted for doing Washington’s immigration-enforcement grunt…
Two ambitious, two-year projects are underway to understand the ecological state of the forests and wetlands in the city’s park system—and grasp what those spots mean to the New Yorkers…
If you’ve figured out how to help America’s urban places attract talent, create opportunity or get citizens engaged, one foundation has a $5 million pool for you to tap into.
The borough’s melting-pot makeup and authorities’ willingness to label crimes as hateful are reasons why Kings County often reports more hate crimes than most states.
A planning study sees potential for recreation and residential development along the Harlem River in University Heights. But while the water creates allure, the lay of the land presents challenges…
Listen to CityLimits.org’s latest early morning appearance on WBAI, where we discussed the Rikers Island scandal, the potential tension between community gardeners and affordable housing developers, and more.
Then as now, the credibility of the threat was doubtful. Then as now, security was stepped up anyway. What’s different now? There’s not a mayoral race on.
The developer Forest City Ratner and the construction firm Skanska have had a bitter parting of ways over a stalled construction project. But both say they still believe in the…
