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The interactive map below, provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, charts the population change in New York. According to Census data collected last year, the Bronx gained 52,458 people over…

ByBronx News Network 0Comments

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Mar 2011

ARTS and CULTURE Economy

Staten Island's Black History, Revisited

At a local museum, a community bears witness to the black experience on Staten Island, as some of its last remaining historic structures are landmarked.

ByTimothy Ledwith 0Comments

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Mar 2011

Government Housing and Homelessness

Critics Of Homeless Program Fight To Save It

Advocates for the homeless have long criticized the Bloomberg administration’s approach to getting people out of shelters. But with the state threatening to end funding for the program, most advocates…

ByDiana Scholl 1Comment

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Mar 2011

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Brooklyn's Gentrifiers: They Came, They Stayed, They Changed Everything

Heroes? Villains? A new book argues that Brooklyn’s “Brownstoners” were a more complex social force than you think, reflecting a post-WWII New York whose changes defied a simple narrative.

BySuleiman Osman 0Comments

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Mar 2011

Housing and Homelessness Justice

Living On The Edge: East New York & Bay Ridge Go Off Script

Chapter four of “Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand” visits East New York, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and other neighborhoods whose story over the past 20 years differs from the standard…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Mar 2011

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness

Lunch At Junior's: Reputation & Reality In Today’s Brooklyn

What does it mean to be “Brooklyn”—and how has that changed as the borough went from not to hot? Chapter one of “Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand” visits a…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Mar 2011

Housing and Homelessness

Finding The Borough Behind The Brand: Brooklyn Today

From Neil Simon to Spike Lee and the Dodgers to Jay-Z, Brooklyn has long enjoyed an international reputation. The new issue of City Limits magazine looks at how that rep…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Feb 2011

Economy Education

Credits As Collateral: Schools Withhold Records If Debts Unpaid

Some students transferring to public school arrive with no educational records because a private or parochial school has withheld them until tuition debts are paid.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Jan 2011

Economy Government Justice

Questions About Mayor's Plan To Run Youth Jails

Few would deny that state-run juvenile detention facilities are flawed. But a Bloomberg bid to take control of some of those sites has raised a new set of issues.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Dec 2010

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness