Two Councilmembers sat down last week to meet a roomful of residents and workers concerned about the proposed rezoning. Questions about local hiring, business displacement, income diversity and when to say “no” were on the agenda.
Councilmembers Fernando Cabrera and Vanessa Gibson discussed the proposed rezoning with members of the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision. Watch the video!
In a span of three weeks, Kilusan Bautista experienced the fear and rejection of being evicted, living on the street and being denied for new places to live. From that dark place, he created a one-man show exploring the human impact of gentrification and displacement. A video story by Melissa Cooper.
New York City is aging, and concerns about elder abuse are rising along with the number of senior citizens.
The high profile occupied by the normally secretive world of intelligence work is certainly one unique feature of this moment in history.
In moving to close CJHS 145 in the Bronx, the authors argue, the city is ignoring the policy choices that have hindered the school’s performance—and the successes its staff and students have achieved despite those obstacles. A video op-ed.
Some are worried about a Syrian invasion, and others about refugee ‘leeches.’ As a 2016 panel in Brooklyn discussed, refugees themselves have a different set of concerns. And theirs are based in reality.
What are New Yorkers—in particular, New York’s immigrants—prepared to do to resist the president’s executive orders and other anti-immigrant actions?
Gotham Gazette and City Limits discuss the housing policy questions New York City is facing as a new president and administration take power.
Certainly New York could use some rebuilding, but will ordinary New Yorkers really stand to benefit from a Trump infrastructure plan? See a list of the improvements one group of city residents wants to see.
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