The city has said little about the remaining eight neighborhoods that will be reshaped to facilitate the mayor’s housing plan. Some advocates hope the quiet will tamp down speculation, but others want a more transparent process for selecting which communities will be asked to grow.
Two leaders in the de Blasio administration program to boost struggling schools write that the model is taking hold and paying dividends.
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.
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.
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.
Three Brooklyn journalists talk about what drove the Trump and Clinton victories, what we learned about our voting system and what happens next.
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.
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.
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.
What are housing experts and neighborhood advocates looking forward to, and worried about, as those rezonings take shape?
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