Mass shootings are happening more often in the U.S., but tighter national gun control seems impossible to achieve. An Australian in New York recounts his country’s response to a massacre.
Sometimes the fight’s over classroom setting, sometimes over a child eating their meals through a straw. Often it involves lawyers, frantic parents and a strained school system.
The borough’s melting-pot makeup and authorities’ willingness to label crimes as hateful are reasons why Kings County often reports more hate crimes than most states.
A planning study sees potential for recreation and residential development along the Harlem River in University Heights. But while the water creates allure, the lay of the land presents challenges…
Listen to CityLimits.org’s latest early morning appearance on WBAI, where we discussed the Rikers Island scandal, the potential tension between community gardeners and affordable housing developers, and more.
Then as now, the credibility of the threat was doubtful. Then as now, security was stepped up anyway. What’s different now? There’s not a mayoral race on.
The dangers associated with floodwaters and power outages that come with storms like Sandy are magnified when you use a wheelchair or breathe through a ventilator.
A video lays bare the problems with eyewitness testimony: At a recent conference, a robbery was staged, and 83 percent of people in the audience couldn’t identify the right guy…
The administration sees city-owned vacant lots as potential sites for affordable housing. Communities that use—or hope to use—those parcels for gardens see them as something else.
The developer Forest City Ratner and the construction firm Skanska have had a bitter parting of ways over a stalled construction project. But both say they still believe in the…
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