ARTS and CULTURE
Hep C On the Outside: Universal Screening Sought
Nekoro Gomes |
The Hepatitis C virus often shows no signs for decades – and then might destroy your liver. Advocates are sounding the alarm for greater education and testing.
ARTS and CULTURE
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered
Robert Neuwirth |
An art exhibit and conference looks at what development has meant—and will mean—for New York’s most romanticized borough.
Bronx
Serving Our Elders: Seniors' Leader Sets Goals
Nekoro Gomes |
At the half-year mark of her new commissionership, Department for the Aging chief Lilliam Barrios-Paoli sits down for a Q&A.
Brooklyn
Policing In Bed-Stuy: Crime Down, Diversity Up
City Limits |
‘The most diverse police department in the nation’ has lowered crime in Bedford Stuyvesant by 70 percent over the last 15 years, says the NYPD’s chief spokesman.
Brooklyn
Policing In Bed-Stuy: Racial Inequities Persist
Coriel Gaffney |
A neighborhood resident says current crime-fighting strategies that largely rely on police rookies inflame racial tensions.
Bronx
Segregated and 'Adequate' Or Equal and Excellent?
Helen Zelon |
Four professors studied urban schools and interviewed students about their experiences. A new book presents what they learned.
Bronx
AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate
Curtis Stephen |
With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.
Citywide
An Embedded Reporter In The American Nightmare
Bendix Anderson |
Journalist Alyssa Katz traveled the country seeking the causes and outcomes of our nation’s housing collapse. She set down her findings in a new book — and explains further in this Q & A.
Bronx
The Forty Years War
Jarrett Murphy |
The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s caught in the conflict today.
Bronx
Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana
Sean Gardiner |
Excerpt from the latest issue of City Limits Investigates: Marijuana has gotten cheaper in New York in the past decade with an estimated 416,000 city residents smoking it.
