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Podcasts

Meet Your New NYC Council: Bronx Students Interview Their Reps

By Daniel Parra | January 26, 2022

To learn more about these new officials and their plans for their time in office, City Limits partnered with students from the Department of Journalism & Media Studies at CUNY’s Lehman College, who contacted their district representatives for audio interviews.

2021 City Council Races

On Staten Island, It’s Red vs. Blue in Tight City Council Race

By Jeanmarie Evelly and David Brand | November 2, 2021

“Albanese might have the support of the law enforcement union, but I think more law enforcement officers would rather lick the floor of the Ferry Terminal than vote for him,” said Republican Councilmember Joe Borelli. “He’s had more positions than the Kama Sutra.”

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Homeless Shelter

Opinion: NYC’s Homeless Shelters Workers Need Better Job Standards to Survive

By Leonard Bell | May 6, 2021

‘The bills that make up the SOS Act, introduced by Council Members Francisco Moya and Diana Ayala, would raise the standards for workers like me to ensure that privately-run shelters are providing decent wages, benefits and training opportunities to security workers.’

Mapping the Future

Which Neighborhoods Could Be Hit Hardest By City Lien Sales?

By Sadef Ali Kully | August 26, 2020

State and local lawmakers have called on the mayor to halt a planned September sale of property tax and water fee debt to collectors.

Age Justice

Senior Services Start to Feel the Pain of City’s Budget Cut

By Roshan Abraham | July 30, 2020

The 2021 left out $15 million in previously promised money, and advocates are just now getting a look at what the reduced funds will mean.

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Council homeless report unveiled Corey Johnson Steve Levin

Levin: City’s Approach to Homelessness Still Lacks Clarity

By Jarrett Murphy | February 13, 2020

‘Some of it has to do with doubling down on existing policies but a lot of it has to do with things that we’ve been advocating for for years that are still not done. A lot of them are things we’ve been talking about for five, six years.’

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Shuttered stores

Council Bill on Commercial Leases in Limbo as Evidence of Vacancy Problem Grows

By Sadef Ali Kully | October 11, 2019

Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.

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Council Could Try to Force City to Boost Value of Homeless Vouchers

By Harry DiPrinzio | September 12, 2019

CityFHEPS, the city’s voucher system has moved many homeless people into housing. But more linger in shelters because the voucher won’t pay enough to cover the rent.

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Rikers hearing

Closing Rikers: The 10 Major Concerns That Emerged at the Public Hearing

By Jarrett Murphy | September 5, 2019

They are unlikely to stop the plan, but at least some of them will be where last-minute negotiations focus.

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Max & Murphy: Cops, Communities and the Garner Case

By Jarrett Murphy | July 25, 2019

The chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety believes the mayor could play a more decisive role than he’s said, and could have played it much sooner, in deciding Officer Pantaleo’s fate.

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