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Opinion: Why NYC Needs a Five-Borough Cultural Festival
“Creating a citywide cultural festival of global proportions would give locals and visitors a powerful new reason to explore the five boroughs each year, while sharpening the city’s creative edge amid an increasingly packed international calendar of must-do experiences.”. New York is home to a rich diversity of annual...
Midtown Homeless Drop-In Center May Be Among City Budget Casualties
The city plans to close a longtime homeless services center called Mainchance, where locals go for food, support in their housing searches, and relief from the elements. “I was trying to have hope that the city would reconsider. They’re not.”. Brady Crain, executive director of the Mainchance drop-in homeless...
Opinion: Clean Air Legislation Offers a Road to Justice for New York
“Passing this legislation before the end of the session allows legislators to implement a transformative emission reduction strategy, significantly improving air quality for their constituents, especially for communities living and working along bus routes and near bus depots.”. Our days are inundated with news of how our delayed response to...
Comptroller to Probe Legal Organization’s Housing Court Performance During Strike
Mobilization for Justice has been operating for more than 12 weeks without the workers who typically execute its mission to combat economic injustice—its more than 100 unionized staff. For more than 12 weeks running, the legal services provider Mobilization for Justice (MFJ) has been operating without the workers who...
Opinion: Proposed Vending Bill Would Hamper City’s Sidewalks
“Vending is a commercial enterprise that creates private income. Sidewalks are for all of us, and until now the city has sought to ensure that all those items that encroach on pedestrian space constitute a public service, such as parking meters, trees, and fire hydrants.”. When it comes to our...
Williams Pipeline Saga Ends, But the Fight to Phase Out Gas Continues
After three attempts to get permits for its pipeline project failed, Williams Companies Inc claims it’s walking away. But as other companies seek to expand fracked gas infrastructure in New York, activists say the fight feels far from over. Since 2017, environmental activists have been battling attempts to build...
Exit Unknown: Where Do People Go After Leaving NYC Homeless Shelters?
Amid a steep rise in people living in shelter, few are exiting the system, and even fewer are getting housing placements, a City Limits analysis of public data shows. Starlite Harris lived in eight different New York City homeless shelters between 2021 and 2022, thanks to a series of transfers and health crises that required hospitalization.
Opinion: Albany Has Unfinished Business on Housing
“While increasing the housing supply is critical and has saturated most of the housing conversation, new housing will take years to come online. In the meantime, affordability is still a concern to many New Yorkers.”. Another state budget has come and gone, and renters are still facing the same problem:...
NYC Housing Calendar, May 14-20
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Opinion: It’s Well Past Time for New York City to Get the Right Stuff Done
“The city is becoming increasingly harsh for the very constituency the mayor claims to care about: the underserved in the forgotten outreaches of the city’s neighborhoods.”. Eric Adams has made “get stuff done” his mayoral mantra. And he’s right, there’s so much to do. But it’s not just a...
Opinion: NYC Can Give the Perfect Gift This Mother’s Day—Investing in Universal Child Care
“It is easy to see how mothers are affected by the prohibitively expensive costs of child care, but perhaps less so to understand it as a communal crisis.”. As a researcher and a sociologist focused on class and child care in New York City, I am well aware of how our current system of expensive privatized care puts parents on the frontlines of the child care crisis.
Can Curbing CUNY’s Carbon Footprint Help Tackle Its Maintenance Problems?
More than half of CUNY’s buildings are 50 years old or older. That’s a problem for the environment: older buildings tend to consume larger quantities of energy, generating more of the greenhouse gasses that lead to climate change. What do the decaying buildings at the City University of...
Building in Brooklyn Council District 35? Here’s What the Rep—And Community Members—Want in New Development
Councilmember Crystal Hudson’s development framework details criteria that projects in her district should meet if they need city approval for zoning changes. “We can all contribute to the housing crisis that we’re in and build more housing, but do so in a way that’s really responsive to the needs of our local communities,” the lawmaker said.
Opinion: Securing the Future of New York’s Supportive Housing
“New York is a national model of supportive housing, which has been proven time and again to be among the most successful methods of ending chronic homelessness. But the system has grown unwieldy, thanks to the vast disparities in available services, funding, and unit maintenance.”. Members of the New York...
While State Budget Boosts Child Tax Credit, Advocates See Missed Opportunity to Combat Poverty
Families will be eligible for a supplemental payment this fall if they received the Empire State Child Credit when they filed 2023 tax returns. However, experts say the formula used to calculate payments is inequitable and excludes the lowest-income families from the maximum credit. The recent unveiling of the $237...
Opinion: Ending the Jury Ban on New Yorkers with Felony Convictions
“The right to serve on a jury is as fundamental to the function of democracy as the right to vote. When we head to the polls, we decide who should write our laws. When we participate as a juror, we collectively decide how those laws should apply to justice.”. May...
Rain, Rain, Go Away. New York Kids Are Trying to Play.
Across New York City, workers are tearing out concrete and asphalt from schoolyards and replacing them with rain-absorbing surfaces that are more climate resilient, according to reporting by Aria Young of Feet in 2 Worlds. This story comes to us from Feet in 2 Worlds, a project that brings the...
NYCHA to Cut Unarmed Security Program at Senior Buildings
Each day, unarmed security guards post at NYCHA senior buildings for eight hour shifts. But this service is poised to evaporate by June 30, a move the authority says will save $7 million. One of the main distinctions of senior-designated buildings within the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is...
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