The proposed system shifts power significantly towards small donors and mainstream parties.
“There isn’t a shortage of stories in the Haitian community,” says publisher Vania Andre, who spoke with City Limits about her plans for the future of the longtime news outlet, which covers the Haitian diaspora.
‘With the Chisholm Chance Plan, we will make a historic investment of $60 million in the health and wellbeing of women and children in the epicenter of the severe maternal morbidity crisis, Central Brooklyn.’
‘The SADC program is a solution to the needs of the growing senior population and the caregiver shortage, at an hourly cost less than in-home personal care services. ‘
The de Blasio administration is hedging on reform to 50-a, the state statute that cloaks police discipline in secrecy. But an experiment 20 years ago that threw NYPD hearings into public view did not lead to any of the problems the city says it is concerned about.
Co-living is picking up steam in the private sector as the de Blasio works to make a shared-living pilot program part of its affordable housing initiative.
‘The city has changed and racial inequality has increased but neither happened in the way nor with the outcomes that we anticipated.’ Read findings from a new anthology and watch video of contributors discussing their research.
Koichi Sunada’s son, Kei Sunada, was shot and killed in Queens in 1994, spurring his father to advocate for gun control laws in his native Japan.
Ruben Diaz, Jr., is calling for changes restricting where the lottery is conducted and altering how school aid is distributed.
‘Without voting rights, prisoners nationwide are waging nonviolent direct action to fight for better conditions.’
As large real-estate deals continue to close, neighborhood stakeholders have raised some unresolved concerns.
Con la serie de artículos llamada ‘Lo que necesita saber sobre’, City Limits inaugura un espacio en el cual la comunidad latino de Nueva York podrá encontrar cápsulas de información práctica y sencilla de interés general para la comunidad.
A City Limits video produced in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, Netherlands.
‘The proposed deal provides an extra salary lift for many of the lower-paid full-time faculty and staff, but it’s not perfect.’
The Asian American Police Executives Council was formed this month to mentor and encourage Asian-American police officers to take on more leadership positions within the NYPD, according to a report translated from World Journal.
The only bilingual theatre in Queens celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of Spanish and Latin American culture with unique productions of plays, musicals and dance.