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Worries about 40,000 displaced people have ebbed. But in buildings where garbage services are still scattered, or where mold remains a menace, the Sandy saga continues.

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Mar 2012

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness

BrooklynEdges: A Mosaic Grows as Boerum Hill Changes

For 10 years, as the neighborhood around her Wyckoff Street address has changed, Susan Gardner has been covering her house in color.

ByJulie Turkewitz 0Comments

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Oct 2011

Housing and Homelessness

Cuts Cripple Housing Assistance Network in Inwood, Washington Heights

Residents looking for help with housing disputes must line up as early as 3 a.m to get assistance from cash-strapped community organizations in particularly vulnerable northern Manhattan neighborhoods.

ByCharu Sudan Kasturi 0Comments

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May 2011

Economy Housing and Homelessness Justice

Shopping For Change In Crown Heights

Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?

ByPatrick Wall 0Comments

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May 2011

Economy Opinion

Supporting Businesses, Strengthening Neighborhoods

The city’s commissioner of small business services says New York’s efforts to bolster Business Improvement Districts will help to preserve the mom-and-pop character of neighborhood retail.

ByRobert Walsh 0Comments

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Mar 2011

Economy Housing and Homelessness

Quitting Time: A Factory's Fall, A Neighborhood's Fallout

The 2007 closure of a Pfizer factory in Brooklyn was a milestone in manufacturing’s retreat from the borough. Chapter three of “Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand” looks at what…

ByJake Mooney 1Comment

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Dec 2010

Government Housing and Homelessness

Whose Dreams Will Decide?

The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2010

Economy

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ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Oct 2010

Economy Opinion

Opinion: Small Businesses Suffer Under A Businessman Mayor

As City Limits reports on the plight of small businesses in the five boroughs, a lobbyist for small firms blames the struggle mostly on Mayor Bloomberg.

ByRichard Lipsky 0Comments

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Oct 2010

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

The Life And Death Of The Mom-n-Pop

Small businesses help make New York’s neighborhoods. But as the next issue of City Limits reports, economic trends and policy decisions are threatening their survival.