Ranking the city’s community districts according to how many obstacles their children face reveals that many neighborhoods face multiple threats while others show a combination of progress and new perils.
You might still be reeling from the 2016 national elections, but it’s time to look ahead to the local races for mayor, citywide and borough-level offices and City Council on tap for next year.
La coalición cree que una rezonificación exitosa es posible, pero que dependerá de la voluntad de la administración de adoptar una serie de estrategias mitigadoras.
Community groups pressed for deeper housing affordability and protections for workers. Other voices stressed different priorities.
A coalition that has pushed for more affordable housing and local job protections says it was ‘deeply disappointed’ by a scoping document released last week.
A team of reporters spent a day on the buses of the Bronx to see to see an underappreciated part of the city’s strained transit system in action.
Discrimination and segregation shaped the existential crisis that faced many Bronx neighborhoods in the 1970s and 1980s. But in the building by building fight for decent conditions, a veteran advocate recalls, race was rarely a topic of conversation.
Seeking monetary damages and faster results, these renters on Merriam Avenue are going after their property owner in Supreme Court.
City Limits joined veteran Bronx public-affairs host Gary Axelbank and journalist-turned-strategist Marlene Peralta to discuss the fallout from the District 13 Congressional primary.
The city has said little about the remaining eight neighborhoods that will be reshaped to facilitate the mayor’s housing plan. Some advocates hope the quiet will tamp down speculation, but others want a more transparent process for selecting which communities will be asked to grow.
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