In The Zone
Boosting hope for affordable housing
December 15, 2003 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2003/12/15/in-the-zone/Boosting hope for affordable housing
December 15, 2003 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2003/12/15/in-the-zone/A new planning tool pushed by Councilmember David Yassky and Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 could mandate affordable housing citywide.
November 24, 2003 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2003/11/24/in-the-zone-3/This holiday season, more than 200,000 letters from poor
New Yorkers will plead with Santa Claus for toys, clothes, even school supplies. But how many will get what they wish for? It all depends on how visitors to a post office charity program decide who’s needy and who’s merely nice.
Fear, depression, anxiety and rage: September 11 taught us these are a natural–and treatable–response to trauma. So why do the teens who were living in pain before then still have no one to talk to?
February 15, 2003 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2003/02/15/why-minds-matter/South Bronx has launched a plan to bring culture seekers into the borough’s would be arts corridor.
January 20, 2003 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2003/01/20/williamsburg-in-the-bronx/Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
December 9, 2002 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2002/12/09/out-of-lines/Officials said street vendors had to leave New York’s shopping districts because they were bad for business. Now the sidewalks are clear–not just of vendors, but customers, too.
September 1, 2002 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2002/09/01/sold-out/Being a landlord might bring in cash, but it’s tough work, in which disaster is always around the corner. One of the city’s most successful nonprofits is giving it a shot anyway.
April 15, 2002 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2002/04/15/making-change-property-values/Last minute developments, dis-endorsements and strange bedfellows in lesser-known local races.
September 3, 2001 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2001/09/03/things-get-racy-a-political-walking-tour-of-the-city/The for-profit Edison Schools’ plan for a building to house their new headquarters and a school depends on the city’s generosity.
July 23, 2001 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2001/07/23/bright-new-idea-for-edison-a-school-on-city-land/