Economy
WORKING WITHOUT A CONTRACT: DAYCARE EMPLOYEES PROTEST
Rob Fischer |
Union members want a new contract, restoration of past standards and the budget to match.
Bronx
CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES HOUSING: HIGH COSTS INTERFERE WITH PLAN
Jarrett Murphy |
In its inaugural issue, CLI examines how fiscal realities are shaping the city’s affordable-housing buildout. This synopsis points to some of the ways new units’ size, quality and genuine affordability could be affected.
City Hall
MAYOR GIVES BROAD SUPPORT FOR BETTER GUARD CONDITIONS
Ray Hainer |
Looking for improved pay and benefits, security guards seem to have at least one friend in a high place.
City Hall
SEEKING TO WRITE A NEW SCRIPT
FOR EMINENT DOMAIN BATTLES
David Giles |
As city development projects requiring land other people are using gain momentum, some reformers advocate other routes toward fairness.
City Hall
ALL RENT MONEY IS NOT CREATED EQUAL
Tanveer Ali |
Apparently that’s what landlords think, according to a new study, but a proposed city law would fight bias against Section 8 voucher holders.
Bronx
WHEN 'NIMBY' SAVES YOUR LIFE
Eileen Markey |
This book documents the history, politics and meaning of undesirable facility placement – and resistance.
Bronx
IN BELL CASE, DESIRE FOR CHANGE
MEETS SLOW POLITICAL PROCESS
Curtis Stephen |
The City Council hearings that will inform recommendations to the New York Police Department aren’t over, and neither is the range of feelings that they’re either beneficial, ineffectual or unnecessary.
ARTS and CULTURE
ROBERT MOSES RECONSIDERED:
POWER AND PROCESS RIGHT NOW
Roberta Brandes Gratz |
A noted urban thinker assesses the continuing debate by city leaders and the great builder’s biographer over the meanings of Moses. The second in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
Government
THE CITY'S LATEST
HIRINGS AND RETIRINGS
Nick Judd |
Police officers, lawyers, educators, labor leaders and more, all heading in and out of positions old and new.
Justice
WHERE FOSTER CARE MEETS SPECIAL EDUCATION
Child Welfare Watch |
A group of child welfare practitioners, advocates, academics, former public officials and parents puts forward new suggestions for city policymakers working to address the needs of a particularly needy group of youngsters.
