Gifford Miller
Battery Park City Recharged
City Limits |
The 1960s promise to fund low-cost housing through Battery Park City languished for decades. Why the city finally made good on its pledge.
Gifford Miller
BENEFITS GET A BOOST
T. McMillan |
Council Speaker Gifford Miller endorses bill requiring health insurance in certain fields.
Housing and Homelessness
BUILDING CONSENSUS: RAVE REVIEWS FOR WEST SIDE PLAN
Alyssa Katz |
City takes unprecedented steps to create more affordable housing.
Bronx
Waste Not
Tess Taylor |
For years the outer boroughs have been Manhattan’s garbagemen. Mayor Bloomberg says it’s time for that to change–and his Upper East Side neighbors are trashing his plans.
Gifford Miller
Government Goes Green?
Tess Taylor |
City Council members call for environmentally sound public buildings.
Gifford Miller
Reining in the Zoning Board
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Two very different ideas for how to rein in wild development.
Housing and Homelessness
HOUSING MINUS POLITICS
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Public Advocate seeks middle ground with new affordability study.
Housing and Homelessness
REINING IN THE ZONING BOARD
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Two different tracks emerge for reforming the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals.
Bronx
SICK AND TIRED OF LOW PAY: HEALTH AIDES VOTE TO STRIKE
Elizabeth Slovic |
The city’s home health aides take care of thousands of elderly and ailing New Yorkers. But who’s looking out for them?
