The elimination of parking minimums is part of a zoning text amendment New York City Mayor Eric Adams detailed Thursday, amid a push to increase housing development citywide.
Health and Environment
Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?
Danielle Renwick, Nexus Media News |
“Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.” Waste, he writes, is often exported from rich countries to poor ones, a phenomenon known as “toxic colonialism.”
Government
NYC Failing to Process Most Food Stamp, Cash Benefit Applications on Time
Emma Whitford |
Timely processing rates plummeted to under 30 percent for cash assistance applications and under 40 percent for SNAP for the fiscal year ending in June, according to the latest Mayor’s Management Report.
Government
PÓDCAST: ¿Cómo ha cambiado el proceso de petición de asilo desde los noventas y en qué consiste el ‘parole’?
Daniel Parra |
Más de 113.300 migrantes han llegado a la ciudad de Nueva York desde la primavera de 2022, y más de 59.900 solicitantes de asilo se encuentran bajo el cuidado de la ciudad. Así que para hablar sobre lo que está ocurriendo, invitamos a Julia Preston, quien ha escrito sobre inmigración para The New York Times y ahora trabaja para The Marshall Project.
Government
After Pressure, NYCHA Publishes Comprehensive List of Laws Governing Tenants
Jeanmarie Evelly |
After a more than year-long push from lawyers with the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), the housing authority is publishing all of its regulations in one document, which will be publicly available for the first time—and tenants and stakeholders have until next month to weigh in on the rules.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: To Keep Schools Open, NYC Needs Climate-Resilient Buildings
Liat Olenick |
“After Hurricane Sandy, my school closed for a week, while whole school student bodies had to be relocated across the city. More recently, my school’s basement and entire first floor flooded the week before school started due to heavy rains.”
Immigration
Adultos inmigrantes son trasladados de hoteles a albergues en carpas para liberar espacio
Daniel Parra |
City Limits habló con varios de los inmigrantes que fueron trasladados desde el Holiday Inn del centro de Manhattan al nuevo refugio en Randall’s Island, un grupo que incluía a una mujer embarazada y solicitantes de asilo con muletas, entre otros.
Housing and Homelessness
City Limits’ Housing Reporter Emma Whitford Promoted to Deputy Editor
City Limits |
Whitford, who joined City Limits as Senior Housing Reporter in February, will continue to report for the news site’s core housing beat and will serve as editor for its series on NYCHA, launched earlier this year to provide in-depth coverage of the nation’s largest public housing system.
Citywide
NYCHA Mentors Condemn Sudden Cut of De Blasio-Era Youth Program
Tatyana Turner |
“I am devastated by the abrupt, violent pulling of this program,” said Jonathan McLean, chief executive officer of the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, at a City Hall rally Tuesday.
Bronx
Opinion: Cricket Stadium Proposal is Wrong Fit for Van Cortlandt Park
Gary Axelbank |
“This is not a story about cricket, its popularity, and whether New Yorkers would support the expansion of it. The issue here is the proper use of public parkland.”
Government
Immigrant Adults Shuffled from Hotels to Tent Shelters, As City Seeks to Free Up Space
Daniel Parra |
City Limits spoke with several of the immigrants being transferred from the Holiday Inn Manhattan downtown to the new, large congregate shelter on Randall’s Island, a group that included a pregnant woman and asylum seekers on crutches, among others.
