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,…
Once respected as a firebrand union leader for public hospital workers, James Butler is facing a dramatic grassroots member rebellion as he nears 30 years on the job.
A push to expand rent relief to New Yorkers with disabilities seemed to have tremendous support in Albany, until a plea from Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped the bill in its…
As Commissioner John Lynch of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal plans to retire, Gov. Pataki is finding it difficult to fill a post described by many as…
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