Video reports and media appearances by City Limits’ staff and contributors
The city is moving forward with a plan to transfer 62,000 units to Section 8 housing vouchers under the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program but the program has raised numerous concerns. A panel Wednesday brought together advocates, tenant leaders and policy experts to discuss some of them.
Jessica Ramos will be one of 15 rookie State Senators joining a 40-member Democratic majority in charge of the upper house of the state legislature for the first time in a decade.
The incoming Senate deputy majority leader and one of the 15 first-time legislators who’ll join the body come January talk about the Democrats’ agenda, the Amazon deal, single-payer healthcare and more.
How ambitious will the wave of reform in Albany be when Democrats take full control of state government and start to address a long list of campaign-finance, voting and ethics reforms?
After spending billions on reducing water pollution and promising to spend even more to make New York’s rivers, canals, bays and creeks cleaner, the city is about to embark on a plan that will deal with sewage in all five boroughs.
A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
Rev. David Brawley, a leader of Brooklyn NYCHA tenants pressing the mayor for answers, says a lack of trust will hamper many of the initiatives the authority has announced as it tries to save the housing on which 400,000 people depend.
From community gardens between high-rises to an island in the middle of the harbor to abandoned underground chambers, there’s no shortage of ideas for where a growing city might find room for a little green. The question is whether the political will exists to fund spaces that will be accessible to all.
Are defendants in Brooklyn getting a fairer shake thanks to the reforms already undertaken?
Kings County was center stage on Election Night 2018, helping to flip the State Senate and the U.S. House blue. What drove the electoral shift behind those results, and what will their impact be on the borough? We asked two veteran journalists.
Still making up your mind about whom to vote for? Want to check your choice one last time? Here’s a quick menu of audio and video resources on many of the candidates for state office.
