This week, City Limits has examined how New York City’s water renaissance is working out in two places that represent our waterfront past and present: Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay.…
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has the power to save valuable remnants of New York’s storied past. Yet it accepts the flimsiest arguments for tearing them down.
A study commissioned by the Sanitation Department and released this week found that a zoned system, in which companies would bid for all the commercial pick-ups in a particular area,…
The Pew Research Center’s landmark 2013 study found that 60 percent of Jewish Americans believe that being Jewish is mainly a matter of culture or ancestry, underscoring the demand for…
Along Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay, decades of work are slowly restoring neglected waterways. Now comes a new challenge: Making sure New Yorkers can use those liquid assets in harmony…
A new report exposes just how hard it is for New Yorkers of modest or even middle-class means to afford a home. It’s a serious problem—but not one that policymakers…
London got the games. We didn’t. We can say a little about what has that meant to each place, but not much about what the alternative would have looked like.
Many schools in New York City have cut or drastically curtailed music and arts programs in recent years. The New York City Mission Society is working to remedy this cultural…
