As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves…
Mayor Bloomberg has said he’d like to see some affordable housing built as part of downtown’s redevelopment, but his policy for making that happen may have some holes–particularly since it…
The solution to building more affordable housing, say both Democratic gubernatorial candidates, is state pension funds. Last week Carl McCall went a step further and vowed to pursue the federal…
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for more money to help New Yorkers who lost jobs after the World Trade Center attacks, but his efforts overlook anyone working outside of…
While some of the city’s major unions already supporting Governor Pataki for re-election, other leading members of the Working Families Party are split between the two Democratic hopefuls for the…
As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash…
Two years after a judge ordered the city to help the mentally ill stay out of jail, Rikers Island is still the only place in New York where they’re guaranteed…
Marvin Markus, the investment banker known for leading the Rent Guidelines Board in passing the highest rent increases in the board’s history, is back.
Decades after investors helped Phipps Houses construct apartments for low- and middle-income New Yorkers, they have taken Phipps to court to get out of the state Mitchell-Lama program, and won.
To celebrate our silver anniversary, the City Limits staff compiled some up-to-date snapshots of the fighters, movements and communities that have moved the city forward over the last 25 years,…
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