In the next two decades, New Yorkers 65 and older will account for 18 percent of the city’s population, according to the AARP. And they’re going to need a lot more elevators than the transit system currently offers.
HEALTH and ENVIRONMENT
Video: New Phase in Long Push to Clean Up New York City’s Waterways
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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.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
On the 2019 Housing Agenda: Rent Regs, Rezonings … and Real Affordability?
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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.
Agenda 2019
Video: Brooklyn Minister Says What NYCHA Needs Most is City Hall Leadership
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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.
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Q&A: Where Will the City Find New Open Space?
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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.
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Video: How Criminal Justice Reform Looks from Brooklyn’s Courtrooms
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Are defendants in Brooklyn getting a fairer shake thanks to the reforms already undertaken?
Brooklyn
Video: Brooklyn’s Role in the ’18 Vote & What the Results Mean for the Boro
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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.
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One Last Look & Listen: Audio and Video of Key 2018 Candidates
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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.
andrew gounardes
Video: Gounardes Feels the Blue Energy in Bid to Unseat Brooklyn’s Lone GOP Senator
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Gounardes has run a fairly progressive race—supporting congestion pricing, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, new investment in parks and reforms like early voting.
Albany
CityViews on Camera: Upstate Cities Need Attention During Campaign ’18
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City Limits invited readers to go on camera and explain why the most important issue to them in this election year should matter to us, too. Ocesa Keaton of Syracuse took us up on the offer.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Video: Marty Golden on Speed Cameras, Climate Change, Rent Control, Donald Trump and his Run for Re-election
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Golden, a highly decorated police officer who then served in the City Council before being elected to Albany in 2002, is a member of an endangered species: an elected Republican from New York City.