Matthew Schuerman, Author at City Limits

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Matthew Schuerman

6 articles published

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ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Books: When Gentrification Came to Greenpoint

In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.

ByMatthew Schuerman 21 minRead time

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Good Neighbor Policies

Big Boxes aren’t all fabricated from the same mold. Here’s how they rate on business practices and community connections.

ByMatthew Schuerman 8 minRead time

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The Return of MetroTech

MetroTech Center never delivered many jobs to nearby neighborhoods. As downtown Brooklyn gears up for another round of development, are we prepared to put unemployed people to work?

ByMatthew Schuerman 28 minRead time

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The Talking Cure

As the health care industry pleads poverty, one hospital finds success speaks many languages.

ByMatthew Schuerman 16 minRead time

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The Big Idea: Down for the (Re)count

The Census counts prisoners in their cells, not their neighborhoods. Now a move is afoot to change their addresses.

ByMatthew Schuerman 14 minRead time

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A Home for Work

Battling long hours, lousy pay and angry neighbors, day laborers in Queens say a permanent “workers’ center” could help them turn things around.

ByMatthew Schuerman 31 minRead time

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WOODSIDE DAY LABORERS ARRESTED IN NEW NYPD SWEEP

A longstanding police policy of tolerance comes to an end with the arrests of workers who seek construction jobs on Queens street corners.

ByMatthew Schuerman 3 minRead time