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CLARIFY:
The City Limits Accountability Reporting
Initiative For Youth

Since the fall of 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for high-school and college-aged students who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their own neighborhoods.
Generously supported by The Pinkerton Foundation.

Apply here.

Questions about City Limits’ internships? Email us. Click here to support the program.

Latest News

  • Bronx Buses
    MTA’s Bronx Bus Redesign Leaves Some Disappointment at the Curb

    Some say the plan fails to provide meaningful service improvements that would draw riders back to the bus.

    By Gyana Guity, Blossom Okonkwo and Jeanmarie Evelly
  • No Easy Answers as NYC Searches for Better Ways to Get Freight into a Crowded City
    By Anna Rhoads, Sadia Haque, Rainier Harris, Lakhsmi Chatterjee, Mia Gindis, Jeanmarie Evelly , Brandon Yam, Manoli Figetakis and Hailey Del Valle
  • Can the City Change Course on How a Key ‘Vision Zero’ Law is Enforced?
    By Mykel Barrett, Hadiya Diallo, Jeanmarie Evelly , Sokhna Fall, Fariha Fawziah and Robert Pena
  • ‘Vision Zero’ Failing to Stick? Many Drivers Escape Penalties for ‘Failing to Yield’
    By Mykel Barrett, Hadiya Diallo, Jeanmarie Evelly , Sokhna Fall, Fariha Fawziah and Robert Pena
  • City’s Reduced Compost Pickups are Rotten, Says Queens Board
    By Manoli Figetakis
  • DOE Deals With Parent Worries About Plans to Merge Two Bronx Middle Schools This Fall
    By Natalie Rodriguez
  • Deep Disagreements Ahead of Key Hearing on Bronx Jail Site
    By Ayana Smith and Mariela Mariano

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Must Reads

  • Queens Community Board Launches New Committee to Address Needs Of Immigrants

    Queens Community Board 3, where more than half of the population is foreign-born, recently start a new committee to address the needs of the neighborhood’s immigrant residents.

    By Sadia Haque
  • For Many Residents in Queens’ Transit Deserts, Congestion Pricing Remains a Hard Sell

    Many drivers and LIRR commuters in northeastern Queens, which includes several so-called "transit deserts" with limited subway access, remain skeptical of congestion pricing, even paired with proposed LIRR discounts.

    By Brandon Yam
  • Charter Network Looking to Open New Transfer School in Queens

    Flushing, Whitestone, Ridgewood, Corona, Jackson Heights, Astoria and Long Island City are possible locations.

    By Zaheer Bowen and Asha MacKay
  • Neighbors Monitoring New Development at Tainted Factory Site

    Some in Greenpoint are reassured by the plans put forward by the developer of the former NuHart and Company vinyl and plastics factory, but other neighbors remain wary.

    By Maya Naphtali
  • Dollar Van Fans Say They Won’t Wait for the Bus

    There were 238 commuter van drivers licensed with the city in 2017, according to TLC data.

    By Arufa Hossain
  • Dollar Van Drivers: City Should Let Us Help During L-pocalypse

    'We are a licensed commuter van service and you're trying to tell us you're going to shut us out of the city?' one driver complains. 'They're leaving the room for Uber, Lyft, Ford Chariot.'

    By Sokhna Fall, Sandra Gonzalez DeJesus and Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Imagining an Amazon Worker’s Subway Ride

    Even having missed a train, this reporter arrived at her imaginary high-tech workplace by 8:35 or so. Granted, City Limits was just one imaginary worker – our 24,999 or more Amazon colleagues were not in the equation.

    By Anay Cortes and Jeanmarie Evelly
  • East Harlem Braces as Next Phase of 2nd Avenue Subway Nears

    Some East Harlem residents are less optimistic about the prospect of the new stations, and are particularly concerned about the potential disruption caused by their construction, which is estimated to take about nine years.

    By Silvio Francisco, Brandon Velez and Jeanmarie Evelly
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Meet our Fall 2019 interns!
Meet our Summer 2019 interns!

Jeanmarie Evelly

City Limits’ youth interns hear from a guest speaker, Jeff Mays of the New York Times

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Jeanmarie Evelly

City Limits’ youth interns hitting the streets of Harlem to interview residents.

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City Limits’ 2019 summer interns outside City Hall after covering a press conference

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