City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
New York’s Hydropower Plan Stirs Concerns Over Impact on Waterways
Danielle Cruz |
But NYC needs power to replace Indian Point’s nuclear energy without resorting to new fossil-fuel usage.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
‘Restore Mother Nature’ Bond Act Won’t Be on This Year’s Ballot
Danielle Cruz |
If passed by voters, it would have provided funding for flood-mitigation work, efforts to restore fish and wildlife habitats and projects to assist communities impacted by environmental injustice.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Progress and Delays in Putting Milestone Emissions Law into Action
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Fourteen months after the city passed a strict new standard for building emissions and less than four years before the restrictions go into effect, there has been progress and delays in creating a mechanism for landlords to comply.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Steps to Boost Climate Resiliency Hit by Delays and Cuts, Thanks to COVID-19
Danielle Cruz |
Budget cuts and delays in the planning process or construction on work threaten to bog down plans that critics thought were too limited to begin with.
Community Boards
How Widespread Was Violence on New York’s Nights of Unrest?
Jeanmarie Evelly, Holly DeMuth, Danielle Cruz, Nicole Javorsky, Sadef Ali Kully, Jarrett Murphy and Daniel Parra |
To get a better sense of what was seen around the city last week, City Limits surveyed all the city’s 59 community boards to ask what violent unrest—and peaceful protest—they had seen.
Age Justice
Leave the Bronx for One’s Golden Years? ‘Hell No!’
Dalvin Brown, Shoshannah Buxbaum, Danielle Cruz, Rachel Green, Buzz Von Ornsteiner, Hafsa Quraishi, Kelsie Sandoval, Jill Shah and Rachel Sherman |
To get a sense of what older Bronx residents were doing and thinking on a typical day, City Limits and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism teamed up this week to collect a few vignettes of aging in the borough.
Bronx
After School Is Tough Territory for Obesity Fight
Danielle Cruz |
A rough survey of the offerings around high schools in a high-obesity area of the Bronx suggests a critical barrier to improving teen health: the unhealthy food that is cheap and nearby when the final bell rings.
