Citywide
Second In Command: Gotbaum Looks Back
Jarrett Murphy |
As candidates vie to replace Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, this article — first in a series on the race for Number Two — looks at the history and challenges of the office.
Bronx
Business Backers Rally Around Bloomberg Bid
Jarrett Murphy |
Who are the financiers, developers and corporate titans lining up behind the mayor’s move to revoke term limits?
Economy
Maybe Beloved Shops Don't Have To Disappear
Nicholas Jahr |
A range of ideas is proffered to stall the trend of older businesses’ extinction – though it could be too late for one block in Chelsea.
ARTS and CULTURE
Will The Real New York Liberal Please Stand Up
Robert Neuwirt |
Though flawed, this analysis of the last few decades’ politics yields a needed recipe for change.
Manhattan
The Struggle To Landmark African-American New York
Kemba Johnson |
African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts.
Center for an Urban Future
Vocational Education Means Schools That Work
David Jason Fischer |
A report from the Center for an Urban Future finds that New York is neglecting the potential of career and technical high schools.
Economy
CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: Today's Anti-Poverty Fight
Jarrett Murphy |
The mayor’s poverty-reduction initiative offers fresh thinking — and small-scale tinkering. This synopsis of the new issue of CLI examines whether it will deliver promised results.
Government
Housing 300 Million Well: What Do Candidates Propose?
Jarrett Murphy |
In New York City and around the country, citizens have plenty of housing concerns. What solutions are the presidential candidates offering?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
SEEKING SMARTS, LEADERSHIP
AND A NEW PLACE AT THE TABLE
Moderated by Karen Loew |
Experts in the areas of housing, workforce development, and immigrants’ rights gathered last week to discuss what new elected officials can — and should — do for their fields.
David Dinkins
MAYOR'S RACE
K.Angelova |
Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy, by J. Phillip Thompson, III; Oxford University Press, $ 29.95.
