News
Forgotten Jails, Campaign Cash, Railroad Inequity and Farm Justice: 2018’s Best
Jarrett Murphy |
City Limits spent its 43rd year doing what it has always done: Digging deep into complicated stories that matter to the city we love.
Budget
CityViews: Alarmist Commentary on City Budget Misjudges Responsible Growth
James Parrott |
‘For some observers the prospect of slower revenue growth means that the City must tighten its belt and reduce its workforce. Hooverism never dies, does it?’
Agenda 2019
CityViews: Here is How New York City Can End Property-Tax Inequality
Nicole Malliotakis |
‘The low- and middle-income communities in our city are bearing the brunt of the burden, essentially subsidizing the property taxes of our city’s most wealthy and affluent areas.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Black Women Call out the Mayor on Police Reform
Sienna Fontaine and Kesi Foster |
‘Some of the city’s most tireless and tenacious police reform advocates are Black women whose loved ones were killed by the NYPD.’
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: Stringer on Albany Pay Raise, Housing Plan; Hochul on Cuomo’s Agenda
Jarrett Murphy |
The comptroller said he didn’t want to be a ‘rubber stamp’ for the legislature.
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: The City’s Homelessness Crisis and the Mayor’s Housing Plan
Jarrett Murphy |
A top homelessness policy advocate and the city’s chief affordable-housing development official discuss the pros and cons of the de Blasio housing plan.
Agenda 2019
Video: Brooklyn Minister Says What NYCHA Needs Most is City Hall Leadership
Jarrett Murphy |
Rev. David Brawley, a leader of Brooklyn NYCHA tenants pressing the mayor for answers, says a lack of trust will hamper many of the initiatives the authority has announced as it tries to save the housing on which 400,000 people depend.
amazon
HQ2? HQ Boo! The Amazon Deal and NYC’s Progressive Identity
Jarrett Murphy |
Mayor de Blasio says generous subsidies and a short-cut public process are justified because New York needs the tax dollars Amazon will bring. But there’s a lot more to the balance sheet than that.
agenda 2019
Agenda ’19: Major Policy Tests Ahead for State and City
Jarrett Murphy and Ben Max |
Under normal circumstances, 2019 would be a quiet year in city politics. But circumstances are not normal.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New Teachers’ Contract is a Missed Opportunity
David Bloomfield |
‘At almost every turn, the contract benefits the Department of Education and does little to improve the lot of the vast majority of union members.’
