After years of delays, a bill requiring that companies that do business with the city pay their employees a living wage may finally be introduced in the City Council this…
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.
The city’s teachers union overlooked some differences of opinion on education policy last week to endorse Republican John Ravitz in his race for Roy Goodman’s state senate seat, leaving some…
A city advocacy group is launching a campaign that, come tax time, could add hundreds of millions to the pockets of low-income New Yorkers–without costing the city a penny.
The Giuliani administration hit legal services for tenants hard last week in its budget cut proposals, leaving some public interest lawyers gearing up to shut their doors.
An ongoing federal lawsuit filed to end the city’s practice of automatically removing kids from mothers who report abuse from their partners is expected to do more than that: A…
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.
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,…
The state legislature and Governor Pataki agreed last week to spend $1.5 billion in surplus federal welfare dollars for the fiscal year ending next March, a move that sent sighs…
In a move to reverse skyrocketing home foreclosure rates, the Bush Administration has called for tightening the reins on federally-guaranteed loans for property flippers.
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