Brooklyn
CityViews: Community Schools Clear the Path for Student Success
Margaret Crotty and Alex Teitel |
Two leaders in the de Blasio administration program to boost struggling schools write that the model is taking hold and paying dividends.
Brooklyn
Digging in to Sunset Park, the City’s ‘Most Interesting Neighborhood’
Jarrett Murphy |
A walking tour will explore tensions over growth, equity and environmental justice in a community that, in 1999, City Limits declared the city’s most intriguing.
Art at the Limits
Help Us Map NYC’s Outer-Borough Art Scene
Jarrett Murphy and Lelosa Imasuen |
We know this map is barely a start. If you know of a gallery, artists’ collective, performance group, music venue, theater, museum or dance space that we don’t, tell us all about it.
Art at the Limits
Bushwick Artists Navigate the Perils of Success
Nekoro Gomes |
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how the group decided to change its approach.
Brooklyn
Video: What the Primary Results Really Mean in Brooklyn
Jarrett Murphy |
Three Brooklyn journalists talk about what drove the Trump and Clinton victories, what we learned about our voting system and what happens next.
climate change
Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn
Sabine Aronowsky and Laurie Mazur |
Maps and data show South Brooklyn to be vulnerable to storm surges and challenged by poverty, the legacy of racism and more. What maps don’t show is how residents are organizing to protect themselves and the planet.
Brooklyn
Sunset Park Walking Tour: Diverse, Complex, Contested
Jarrett Murphy |
Join veteran Brooklyn tour guide (and City Limits contributor) Norman Oder, along with neighborhood activist Maria Roca, on a wide-ranging tour of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Advocacy
Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
As housing justice advocates across the city review the outcomes in East New York, many say the results attest to the power of community organizing, especially when stakeholders put forth detailed policy alternatives.
Brooklyn
Video: Rezoning Brooklyn and Beyond as De Blasio Housing Plan Rolls On
Jarrett Murphy |
What are housing experts and neighborhood advocates looking forward to, and worried about, as those rezonings take shape?
Brooklyn
Can De Blasio Save Brooklyn Manufacturing?
Jarrett Murphy |
After a brutal start to the century, manufacturing is rebounding in Brooklyn. But with competition for space only intensifying, can the new growth last?
