A handful of inmates convicted of violent crimes sued the prosecutor in recent years to demand documents under the freedom of information act. In some cases, the files simply couldn’t…
Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust…
Their nighttime tours to find edible items among what restaurants and grocery stores have discarded fill their pantries—and raise the question of whether a larger solution to hunger lies in…
Testifying about a controversial rezoning proposal, the HPD commissioner rejected the idea that city-subsidized apartments would charge rents out of step with prevailing rents or average incomes in the Brooklyn…
For months volunteers at dozens of community gardens have wondered which ones might be targeted for affordable housing. Our partners at Brooklyn Deep were in the room when gardeners learned…
Reporter Batya Ungar-Sargon, immigration lawyer Talia Peleg and professional signer (and one-time immigration detainee) Nnecka Ifemesia appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the City Limits series “On the…
The U.S. debate about immigration moves in broad strokes: images of Syrian refugees massing at Europe’s borders, language about threats and dreams. For foreign-born people in New York, life rarely…
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