engagement
Video: What Will Election 2016 Mean to Young Voters?
Jarrett Murphy |
Hours before the polls closed and the world changed, BRIC-TV aired this discussion about young voters, political engagement and the democratic process.
Homepage Featured
Video: Does a Higher Minimum Wage Help or Hurt Workers?
Jarrett Murphy |
The federal minimum wage has less buying power than it did 50 years ago and would leave a full-time worker in poverty. But opponents have long insisted that raising it might kill jobs.
Donald Trump
Podcast: The Election Night Storylines That Will Affect NYC
Jarrett Murphy |
Gotham Gazette’s Ben Max and City Limits’ Jarrett Murphy identify the Election-Night storylines that will matter for New York City, from the presidential race to the battle for control of Congress to the fight over the State Senate.
Homepage Featured
VIDEO: See the Gowanus Rezoning Meeting
City Limits |
Ahead of a likely rezoning of the area, the Department of City Planning hosted its first neighborhood planning workshop. See the city’s presentation.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Video: Is There Any Suspense Left in Campaign 2016?
Jarrett Murphy |
The actual result of the election is just one nodule of suspense (or curiosity, or worry, or terror, depending on your perspective) as Election Day approaches.
Multimedia
Video: Wayne Barrett’s Donald Trump Impersonation …. and More!
Jarrett Murphy |
Watch Wayne Barrett, Tom Robbins, Henry Garrido, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland and others celebrate City Limits’ 40th anniversary.
Justice
Video: Will Council Get Right to Vote on the ‘Right to Know’ Act?
Jarrett Murphy |
BRIC-TV interviews Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito about her decision to let the NYPD police itself, a councilmember who might force a different course of action and a mother whose loss fuels the effort for reform. Plus, a panel discussion about the proposal.
Grassroots
Video: Grassroots Forum on the LIC Rezoning
Nicole Javorsky |
On Monday, October 17, the Justice for All Coalition (a coalition of concerned stakeholders in Long Island City) hosted a grassroots forum to explore the potential rezoning and issues like affordable housing, union jobs, the proposed BQX light rail, and displacement. Our coverage produced these two videos.
community planning
Video: De Blasio Admin. Makes East Harlem Rezoning Presentation
Jarrett Murphy |
Responding to the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, the Department of City Planning presented its long-awaited draft rezoning framework to East Harlem’s community board.
black lives matter
Video: Athletes Playing Politics, from John Carlos’s Fist to Colin Kaepernick’s Knee
Jarrett Murphy |
Anyone who believes sports and politics shouldn’t mix, or that they typically don’t, must have taken too long a bathroom break between innings.
