Housing and Homelessness
1,500 Protest Plans To Eliminate 16 NYC Public Day Care Centers
Kelly Virella |
If enacted, the cuts would slash about 2,000 of New York’s public day care slots. The city claims less families are using the service.
Housing and Homelessness
NYCHA Seniors Sound Call For More Cops
Danny Gold |
Residents in East New York’s Reid Apartments say they need more help from police to protect vulnerable residents from crime.
Media
NYC Web World Regroups After FCC Defeat
Kelly Virella |
A court ruling barring the FCC from regulating broadband has local organizations plotting how to give the agency new teeth.
Bronx
Union Wage Push Meets Resistance
Jake Mooney |
The City Council might require buildings that receive tax breaks to pay their staff higher wages. The real estate industry opposes the idea. Where does the mayor stand?
Economy
Hello, Mr. Elephant!
Jarrett Murphy |
Some tiptoe around the subject, but the connection between black worker status and immigration deserves to be faced.
ARTS and CULTURE
Immigrants Reach New Heights
Curtis Stephen |
With city and state turmoil shaking up political alignments, some see a new opening for growing ethnic groups to claim power.
Organizing
The Comparative Clause
Zora Howard |
New York City’s first youth poet laureate helps City Limits celebrate its relaunch by providing this poem.
Economy
Quiet Follows Harlem's Rezoning For Redevelopment
Demetria Irwin |
The economy has accomplished what opponents of last year’s 125th Street rezoning feared they could not: Slowing the pace of gentrification.
Bronx
AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate
Curtis Stephen |
With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.
Citywide
No Free Lunch: Conflict Over Food Stamp Access
Chloe Tribich |
As the economy sends ever more New Yorkers in search of a safety net, the city’s welfare agency defends anti-fraud measures that advocates call counterproductive.
