CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: With Community Land Trusts Back in the Spotlight, Lessons from 1970s NYC

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“Now, longtime neighborhood residents across the city, people who put up with dangerous housing conditions for decades because they had no choice, but who fought to improve their neighborhoods, finally have the best chance in decades to get public support.” Adi Talwar Three buildings in the East Village are a part of the Cooper Square Community Land Trust. CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! The Lower East Side, 1970s.It was a short five blocks from my apartment on East 4th Street, between Avenues C and D, to my job at a local community organization in the abandoned P.S. 64 on East 9th Street, later re-named El Bohio.

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Asociación entre alcaldía y organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro ha recaudado $2 millones de dólares y cientos de bicicletas para inmigrantes

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Mientras el alcalde sigue insistiendo en conseguir fondos estatales y federales para compensar el costo de los programas de asistencia a los inmigrantes, también ha publicitado iniciativas independientes para recaudar fondos más allá de las arcas del gobierno. El principal fondo de donaciones, recaudado por el Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC, aún no se ha distribuido.

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SEE IT: How NYC Turns Food & Yard Waste Into ‘Big Apple Compost’

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City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation’s 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New York City’s effort to operate “the nation’s largest composting program” and limit the climate impact of its waste sector, which accounts for 4 percent of citywide emissions.