“This absence of unified design and management can compound inequality. Where some areas of the city have seen the lion’s share of the city’s attention, other areas have been and are in danger of continuing to be completely left behind.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: It’s Time to Think Outside the Box to Solve the Shelter Crisis
Robert Mascali |
“It is time for the governor and the legislature to step up to the plate and start acting like a partner to Mayor Eric Adams instead of a spectator. In fact, in recent years the state has been reducing its support for the city’s shelter system by not keeping up with its financial obligation.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Who Gets to Enjoy NYC’s Open Streets?
Jackson Chabot and Chelsea Dowell |
“This program was a lifeline for New York City during the pandemic, and now it needs more resources and structural support to reach its full potential.”
Community Benefits Agreements
Bronx Students Ask: What Kind of Neighbors Are The Yankees?
CUNY Lehman College Podcasting Team |
In 2009, the new Yankee Stadium opened, replacing what used to be a park. Since the Yankees were getting public land, the city said they needed to give back something. How did that go? Journalism students at CUNY Lehman college investigate.
Sports & Fitness
NYC’s 75-Year-Old Ukrainian Soccer Club Plays in Brooklyn, with Hearts in Kyiv
David Brand |
The Ukrainian Sports Club was founded in 1947 as tens of thousand of Ukrainian migrants settled in New York. Today, the team competes in the historic Cosmopolitan Soccer League and continues to serve a special function for generations of immigrants.
Una Ciudad sin Límites
Cientos de nuevos equipos deportivos llegan a las escuelas de Nueva York tras demanda por equidad racial
Jeanmarie Evelly |
El Departamento de Educación y el Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL por sus siglas en inglés) están llamados a crear 200 nuevos equipos en los próximos dos años, como parte de un acuerdo sobre el acceso desigual a los deportes para los estudiantes negros y latinos.
Education
Hundreds of New Sports Teams Coming to NYC Schools Following Racial Equity Lawsuit
Jeanmarie Evelly |
The DOE and the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) are required to launch 200 new teams in the next two years, part of a settlement over disparate access to sports for Black and Latino students. The change comes at time of increasing competition for sports fields and courts: The city turned down a quarter of the permit requests it received last year, up slightly from before the pandemic.
Bronx
From the Archives: The Happy Land Fire, Soccer and Grief, 1996
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Friday marks 32 years since the Happy Land Social Club fire in The Bronx killed 87 people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a neighborhood soccer league became “a lifesaver for some men who did not know how to handle the flood of grief.”
Bronx
‘He’s the Glue’—Friends Honor Slain Soccer Star Who Helped Build a Team of Homeless New Yorkers
David Brand |
Akeem Loney was most at home on a patch of turf in Allerton. Outside the neighborhood, the 32-year-old—who was stabbed to death while sleeping on the subway last month—helped grow a citywide soccer program from a shelter on Wards Island.
NYC parks
Public Bathroom Access at Heart of Dispute Over New Inwood Park Facility
Liz Donovan and Daniel Parra |
The Row New York boathouse planned for Sherman Creek Park will have bathrooms in its locker rooms, available only to the individuals participating in the organization’s programming.
2021 election
If New York City Is So Bad, Why Does Curtis Sliwa Stay?
David Brand |
“We had gone from being a very functional city, even with de Blasio and all his inabilities, to just crashing and burning,” the Republican candidate told City Limits during a recent interview inside his spartan, cat-free Midtown headquarters.