Housing and Homelessness
Video: Highlights from the Far Rockaway Rezoning Hearing
Marc Bussanich and Abigail Savitch-Lew |
When Queens Community Board 14 heard public testimony, they got an earful. Here are just a few highlights.
Art at the Limits
Gentrification and Homelessness: A One-Man Drama
Melissa Rose Cooper |
In a span of three weeks, Kilusan Bautista experienced the fear and rejection of being evicted, living on the street and being denied for new places to live. From that dark place, he created a one-man show exploring the human impact of gentrification and displacement. A video story by Melissa Cooper.
Justice
Video: Cops, Citizens and the Right to Record
Jarrett Murphy |
Since the 2014 death of Eric Garner, video has ignited an unprecedented debate about policing and race in the United States. Yet some who film the police in action have faced arrest.
Bronx
Video: Make a Park Bench Your Gym This Spring
Jarrett Murphy and Lizzie Ford-Madrid |
Two of the young athlete-advocates from the Bronx’s Mary Mitchell Center demonstrate how a simple park bench can be the key to your plan to get in shape—and talk about their broader work to make the Bronx a healthier place.
Bronx
Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification
Jarrett Murphy |
The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy discussions today.
City Council
City Limits’ First Ever Live Broadcast!
Jarrett Murphy |
Catch a noon press conference featuring a call for federal prosecutions in a police killing.
On the Border of Justice
Surviving Immigration Court: A Video Discussion
Jarrett Murphy |
Watch a lawyer, a woman who spent six months in immigration detention and a City Limits reporter discuss the court system that decides who gets to stay in the U.S. and who doesn’t.
BRIC
An NYC Angle on the Paris Climate Talks
Jarrett Murphy |
The ongoing climate talks in Paris are about a threat to life as we know it that’s easily as grave as the one posed by ISIS, if not as immediate.
