Although the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs has strongly advocated for equity in the arts, the agency’s granting programs could do more to bolster the small and local organizations that…
The Small Business Jobs Survival Act, which would establish a right to commercial lease renewal, has been kicking around City Council for three decades. Then as now, worries about economic…
As the mayor and City Council focus on creating a budget that provides essential services for all city residents, increasing support in the city’s budget for arts and culture should…
Advocates using Theater of the Oppressed techniques are turning an empowerment tool developed in South America in the 1970s to homeless policy issues, with HUD and City Councilmembers in the…
A year into NextGeneration NYCHA, earlier fears the revenue would fall short appear to have been unfounded. But the authority’s budget gaps remain large.
The Authority revealed that its financial picture is worse than expected, in large part because it has revised downward its projections of savings and new revenue from the NextGen plan.
The Council vote on MIH and ZQA represented a historic change to the rules of development in New York City and a huge political victory on the mayor. Its impact…
Legislators’ concerns over the plan to rezone East New York mirror their worries about the mayor’s citywide proposals. A deal seems likely. Its exact shape remains anybody’s guess.