Ed Koch Archives - City Limits

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Harry DeRienzo, president emeritus and special advisor at the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, reflects on the legacy of New York City housing organizer and advocate Bonnie Brower, who passed…

ByHarry DeRienzo 1Comment

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Jun 2022

ARTS and CULTURE Education Government

The Art Treasures Behind NYC’s School Doors

With pieces dating back to the early 20th century, the city’s public schools are home to almost 2,000 works encompassing realistic murals depicting the city’s history, giant pieces on exterior…

ByGail Robinson 2Comments

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Feb 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth NYCHA

Análisis: décadas de desconexión de la ciudad de Nueva York en materia de vivienda y personas sin hogar

¿Por qué ha crecido tanto el número de neoyorquinos sin hogar, a pesar de que la ciudad gasta miles de millones en vivienda y servicios para las personas sin hogar?…

ByDoug Turetsky 0Comments

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Feb 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth News Politics

Analysis: NYC’s Decades of Disconnect on Housing and Homelessness

Why has the number of homeless New Yorkers grown so much, even as the city spends billions on housing and homeless services? One part of the answer is that over…

ByDoug Turetsky 5Comments

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Jan 2022

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Remembering the Wayne Barrett I Knew

“Wayne was an absolutist—moral, faithful, tea totaling, tenacious—a believer in redemption, with reportorial standards beyond reproach. No short cuts, no cheap rumors—only shocking facts; never going with a piece unless…

ByFred Smith 2Comments

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Oct 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Flashback: How The Mayoral Candidates Said They’d Fix NYC Housing, 1989

In the summer of 1989, City Limits asked the candidates running for mayor of New York—including Ed Koch and David Dinkins—to explain their plans and policies on homelessness, housing and…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Dec 2014

Housing and Homelessness

Koch’s Housing Legacy, Through a de Blasio Lens

Like the former mayor, Bill de Blasio faces a housing crisis and a stingy federal government. But the current occupant of City Hall also confronts steeper expectations in a city…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Feb 2013

Government

Ed Koch +

Over his 22 years of post-mayoral life, Ed Koch proved he could transcend not only an electoral loss but a moral mistake, and rise, like his city, to a brighter…

ByWayne Barrett 0Comments

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Feb 2013

Government Housing and Homelessness

In His Own Words: Ed Koch on Housing and Homelessness

In June 1989, Ed Koch weighed-in on the city’s housing crisis as an incumbent facing off against a crowded field of mayoral challengers.

ByEd Koch 0Comments

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Nov 2012

Government

For Latino Hopefuls, Lessons of Badillo and Ferrer Loom Large

The mayoral candidacies of Congressman Herman Badillo and Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer saw Latinos come close, but not close enough, to winning City Hall.

ByEd Morales 0Comments

Bonnie Brower and the Art of Unfiltered Advocacy