Some expensive but successful job training programs for recent high school dropouts are losing their city contracts, creating concern among workforce advocates that the Bloomberg administration is focusing solely on…
The Rent Guidelines Board gained a tenant advocate last week when Mayor Bloomberg appointed Legal Aid attorney Adriene Holder, while the city’s settlement houses are slated to lose their longtime…
The Commodore, the last of the string of vaudeville theaters that once lined Brooklyn’s Broadway, is for sale. Local residents are asking the city to landmark the building before it,…
The city has four months to spend more than $60 million in federal job training money left over from the Giuliani administration before it loses it to Albany. This while…
Mayor Bloomberg did not mince words last week when he said everyone will have to make budget sacrifices this year. City Limits looks at what he says low-income New Yorkers…
After 15 years as chief prosecutor in charge of juvenile delinquency cases in the city Law Department’s Family Court division, Peter Reinharz has said he will step down this month,…
A New Year and a new city administration, means new faces at every level from agency commissioners to nonprofit group administrators. City Limits gives the skinny on who’s in, and…
Last week’s budget agreements between the City Council and the mayor gave back life to housing groups that expected to spend the holidays packing it in. But services for kids,…
The Giuliani administration hit legal services for tenants hard last week in its budget cut proposals, leaving some public interest lawyers gearing up to shut their doors.