Video reports and media appearances by City Limits’ staff and contributors
Bail reform, congestion pricing, education aid … the 2020 state budget had a lot. Including, according to a quiz City Limits’ editor took on air, hundreds of uses of the word ‘miscellaneous.’
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In the next two decades, New Yorkers 65 and older will account for 18 percent of the city’s population, according to the AARP. And they’re going to need a lot more elevators than the transit system currently offers.
Sixteen people are running for a post with a staff smaller than an NFL team’s active roster, a budget less than one-fifteenth of one percent of the police department’s and a funky assortment of duties and powers. Does the race matter?
Jessica Ramos will be one of 15 rookie State Senators joining a 40-member Democratic majority in charge of the upper house of the state legislature for the first time in a decade.
The incoming Senate deputy majority leader and one of the 15 first-time legislators who’ll join the body come January talk about the Democrats’ agenda, the Amazon deal, single-payer healthcare and more.
How ambitious will the wave of reform in Albany be when Democrats take full control of state government and start to address a long list of campaign-finance, voting and ethics reforms?
After spending billions on reducing water pollution and promising to spend even more to make New York’s rivers, canals, bays and creeks cleaner, the city is about to embark on a plan that will deal with sewage in all five boroughs.
A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
Rev. David Brawley, a leader of Brooklyn NYCHA tenants pressing the mayor for answers, says a lack of trust will hamper many of the initiatives the authority has announced as it tries to save the housing on which 400,000 people depend.
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