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Making Space: The Harlem-Raised Stylist to the Stars

Terrell Jones, who built his career dressing celebrities like Fat Joe and DJ Khaled, spoke to City Limits about how the city influenced his style—and why New York weather offers…

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La campaña para eliminar mentiras sobre cambio climático en comunidades latinas

“Decimos que es una cuestión de derechos civiles, porque al sembrar la duda y la confusión, las campañas de desinformación acaban minando la capacidad de la comunidad latina para defenderse…

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City’s Top Housing Official Steps Down in Wake of Mayor’s Trump Dealings

First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, who oversees the city’s housing and economic development work, announced plans to resign alongside three other top City Hall officials. The tumult comes after the…

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Meet Your Tenant Leader: Miguel Acevedo, NYCHA’s Fulton Houses

“Now this community is gentrified with condominiums that are coming up from all over…We’re the forgotten ones,” said Miguel Acevedo, the tenant association president at NYCHA’s Fulton Houses for the…

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The Fight to Keep Community Composting Alive in NYC

Nando Rodriguez from Brotherhood Sister Sol is leading a campaign to bring 1,000 composting sites to every borough. Here’s why he’s doing it.

Government Housing and Homelessness Meet Your Tenant Leader NYCHA Profiles

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Jackie Lara, NYCHA’s Fulton Houses

Lara, who’s lived at the Fulton Houses for 22 years, is among those fighting NYCHA’s plan to demolish and rebuild the campus and neighboring Elliott-Chelsea Houses. “I don’t need a…

Housing and Homelessness Meet Your Tenant Leader NYCHA Profiles

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Cynthia Tibbs, NYCHA’s West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones

Tibbs is the leader of one of 218 active resident associations across the city’s public housing system, according to NYCHA, where she’s worked to install new intercoms, host community events…

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Meet Your New NYC Council: Bronx Students Interview Their Reps

To learn more about these new officials and their plans for their time in office, City Limits partnered with students from the Department of Journalism & Media Studies at CUNY’s…

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