In 2009 a controversy over wages scuttled a plan to build a mall in the long-empty Kingsbridge Armory. Now there’s a plan to host bike races there. Is a renovation project finally getting in gear?
In an excerpt from the City Limits magazine investigation of small businesses in New York, a look at the holdouts along increasingly chain-ganged 86th Street.
“If it doesn’t start doing something soon, I’m going to be out of business after 26 years.”
At a forum last week, self-employed Brooklynites and the experts who value them explored challenges to the growth of their demographic.
A new report shows how the city’s immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs and growth, and transform neighborhoods.
Leadership changes and brand-new positions at Civilian Complaint Review Board, The After-School Corporation, NYC Economic Development Corporation and more.
If being an improvement from the Giuliani era were the only criteria, Michael Bloomberg would have been anointed the People’s Mayor a long time ago.
It was a year of highs and lows. Hits and misses. Wins and losses. Okay, fine, you’ve heard it before. But 2004 will likely be remembered as a major turning point in New York public policy. Here are seven new concepts City Limits and The Center for an Urban Future find most intriguing.
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