Skip to content
  • POST A JOB AD
  • MEDIA KIT
  • NEWS TIPS
  • INTERNSHIPS
  • ABOUT US
SUPPORT!

City Limits - In-depth New York City News

Newsletters Support

City Limits - In-depth New York City News

Newsletters Support

  • Topics
    • News
      • Housing and Homelessness
      • Health and Environment
      • Government
        • Election 2021
        • Council Countdown
        • Family Homelessness Video Voters’ Guide
        • Video Briefings: Issues in the Mayoral Race
        • The Max & Murphy Show
      • Justice
      • Economy
      • Education
      • Sports & Fitness
      • Video
      • Boroughs
        • Bronx
        • Brooklyn
        • Manhattan
        • Queens
        • Staten Island
    • Special Projects
      • Mapping The Future
      • Una Ciudad sin Limites
      • Voices of New York
      • The Ride: Transit Coverage
      • City on the Edge: Climate Change & NYC
      • Age Justice
      • Art at the Limits
    • Investigations
    • Opinion
  • Youth Training – Apply Now!
  • Podcasts
    • El Diario Sin Límites
    • City Watch
    • The Max & Murphy Show Archives
    • The Check In
  • Jobs
  • About Us
    • Our impact
    • Contact
    • Reprint policy
    • Our Standards
    • Get Involved
      • NYC Toolkit
      • Send Us a Tip
  • Support
  • NYC Shelter Count
  • ENG
  • ESP
  • The Coronavirus Crisis
  • Jobs
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Menu
  • News
  • Investigations
  • Age Justice
  • Climate Change
  • The Ride
  • Opinion
  • Podcasts
  • Elections
  • ENG
  • ESP

ShareTweet EmailPrint

nobackspace-1

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

CityViews: Police, Politics and the Puerto Rican Day Parade

By Josmar Trujillo | May 24, 2017

Amid a struggle for Puerto Rican independence that has spanned three centuries, a police commissioner’s decision not to march in the annual parade is small potatoes.

No BackSpace: Shackling Inmates Will Only Make Rikers Violence Worse

By David A. Fullard | March 22, 2017

A veteran DOC officer writes: ‘We simply must develop the will to expend the money for services and staff, rather than on restraint chairs and solitary cells.’

civil liberties

No Backspace: NY’s Rules for Policing Political Activity Still Need Tightening

By Josmar Trujillo | March 17, 2017

Imagine a world where a federal judge has to tell civil liberties lawyers that they’ve conceded too much to the NYPD. Don’t imagine it. You’re living in it.

bike safety

NoBackspace: Vision Zero Works When Victim-Blaming Stops and Accountability Starts

By Lisa Brown | February 21, 2017

When we hear about traffic crashes, there’s a tendency to question the intentions of the victim first and immediately put fault on them, instead of a reckless driver. That has to change.

campaign fundraising

No BackSpace: It’s the Incessant Fundraising, Stupid (Why Big Money Dooms Democrats)

By Joel Berg | February 1, 2017

‘Campaigning and governing is now indistinguishable from fundraising. The vast majority of e-mails and letters that I now receive from elected officials are either thinly veiled fundraising pitches or overt ones. The last e-mail I received from Obama as President was a fundraising pitch.’

asians

No BackSpace: Amid Racist Sentiment, Year of the Rooster Dawns on a Stronger Chinese NYC

By Rong Xiaoqing | January 31, 2017

A Trump presidency and persistent incidents of anti-Asian sentiment are disturbing. But this author is appeased by the footsteps of the Year of Rooster and its prophetic messages.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

No BackSpace: IDNYC Fiasco Shows Undocumented Immigrants Can’t Trust the City

By Josmar Trujillo | January 12, 2017

This op-ed argues: ‘With Trumpmageddon looming, undocumented immigrants may have very learned the hard way that government, whether local or federal, liberal or conservative, may never be able provide them a true sanctuary.’

Homepage Featured

Op-Ed: Rejecting the East Harlem ‘Community’ Plan

By Josmar Trujillo | November 21, 2016

Not everyone in the East Harlem neighborhood feels they were part of crafting the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, which welcomes development that many distrust.

No Backspace

No BackSpace: Clinton and Trump vs. the Truth—Stop & Frisk Isn’t Over

By Josmar Trujillo | October 4, 2016

Stop and frisk in the city isn’t over. But you might not know it if you watched national headlines last week.

No Backspace

No Backspace: The Surprising Support for Trump Among New Chinese Immigrants

By Rong Xiaoqing | September 13, 2016

Newcomers in Chinatown have convinced themselves that the xenophobia stoked by the Republican nominee will distinguish between documented and undocumented immigrants. They are, the author writes, tragically mistaken.

Load more articles

The Job Board

Follow City Limits

Like Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on YouTubeFollow Us on InstagramFind Us on LinkedInSubscribe via RSS

City Limits Newsletters

Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you.

Sign up

City Limits Newsletters

Sign up for our newsletters to get our reporting delivered to you.

Click here to subscribe to CityVote 2021, our special campaign newsletter.

Sign up for our other newsletters below to get our reporting delivered to you.

Thanks for signing up. Please check your email for a confirmation.

City Limits uses investigative journalism
through the prism of New York City
to identify urban problems,
examine their causes, explore solutions,
and equip communities to take action.

Founded in 1976 in the midst of New York’s fiscal crisis, City Limits exists to inform democracy and equip citizens to create a more just city. The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by foundation support, ad sponsorship and donations from readers.

  • About Us
  • Our Impact
  • Contact Us
  • Our Supporters
  • Support!
  • Advertise
  • Content-Sharing Policy
  • Privacy Policy

© Copyright 2022, City Limits