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Friday, March 12, 2010
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Toward A New Guard

A Tough Gang To Follow

As Harlem's older generation of leaders fades, black officials define new paths toward prominence.

Behind The City Budget

Feeling the Recession's Impact

The mayor's proposed city budget, which City Council just began examining, shows a nearly flat spending plan riddled with painful choices.

Fewer Services For The Homeless

Mayor Bloomberg's big goals to cut homelessness in half and greatly expand affordable housing are being reinterpreted in the next budget.

Thin Gruel For Soup Kitchens

Publicly funded help for the needy, from food assistance to job training, dries up further under the proposed budget.

1.5 Percent Less For Education

How will $113 million less be felt across the public school system? How are other programs for children faring, from prenatal care to juvenile justice?

Youth Focus

A Fight To Extend
Parents' Rights

Foster children with parents in prison are often put up for adoption. The State Senate takes up a bill aimed at slowing that practice.

When Your Dad's Behind Bars

To one boy in Bed-Stuy, a program for children of the incarcerated makes a difference.

Learning For The Long Term
Or A Job For Right Now?

Groups providing education and training for high school dropouts say the city's new rules for spending millions in Workforce Investment dollars won't achieve the best outcomes.

Foster Kids To Get A Home
In One Year, City Says

A research report explains why NYC foster children languish so long without 'permanency.' Children's Services backs the findings and promises change.

Getting Lost On the Way
To the Principal's Office

Clear lines of accountability for student discipline are needed in the era of police officers staffing public school hallways, say advocates and officials pushing for new rules.
Michael Hicks/City Limits

Haiti – Brooklyn – Haiti

A few days after the earthquake in January, these children were brought to God's Angels of Hope, a group home for orphans in Petionville, outside Port-au-Prince.

By Michael Hicks

More News

Comptroller Moves
To Rein In CityTime

An unfinished system to track city employees' hours already costs 10 times what was budgeted. What now?

A New Tool For Tenants

Renters beware: You may be on a blacklist. But now there's a path to clear your name.

Latinos in NYC Embrace Census

Rather than play a high-stakes game around the U.S. Census in March, immigration activists in New York are poised to play a crucial role in the federal debate on immigration law reform.

Civic Culture

Dressing For Success

An exhibit on how clothes make the worker is provocative but falls short of its promise.

Into the Wild:
Nature's NYC

A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.

On The Art That's
All Around Us

In very different ways, two new books give context to artworks on the walls and in the plazas.

Becoming a Deejay,
Leaving the P-J's

Life is tough in the projects and on the streets, but leavened with music and friendship in this crop of new city books.

Award For City Limits

Zelon Wins Education Prize

An article assessing philosophical and practical shifts at the DOE in recent years earns national recognition.

Hope or Hype?

'There Is No Science':
Canada's Philosophy

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A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.

Kids Who Can't Get
Enough of School

One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.

Promises To Keep:
The Obama Poverty Plan

The 'Promise Neighborhoods' plan has the policy world abuzz about the first major federal antipoverty effort in decades. But the effort has not yet been launched, and details are hard to come by.

Local Perspectives:
Residents Weigh In

A sampling of opinion from the streets of Harlem yields a positive view of the Children’s Zone.

Lesson Plans:
A Teacher Speaks

What's it like teaching inside the school that’s become a national model for community improvement? A Promise Academy instructor explains.
NYPD Officers Under Pressure to Make Arrests and Meet Quotas, Officer Claims

In the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, a police officer claims that fellow police officers are pressured to meet a quota of 20 summonses and 1 arrest each month at the risk of punitive actions like loss of overtime and denial of days off.

Bloomberg Admits $722M CityTime System to Replace Paper Timesheets Has Been 'A Disaster'

Mayor Bloomberg acknowledged during a briefing on Monday that the city's plan to overhaul the data infrastructure for timesheets for city workers has been grossly over-budget and largely ineffective.

Calculating Poverty in New York: More by City Standard, and Less by Federal One

A new measure of poverty taken by the mayor's office that accounts for the high cost of housing in New York City shows that the number of people who fully classify as poor has risen by close to 300,000.

Jim Crow in New York

A look at how New York State's criminal disenfranchisement laws have disproportionately affected the voting rights of black New Yorkers from the 19th century up until the present day.

State of the Homeless 2010

A report from the Coalition for the Homeless shows that Governor Paterson's proposed budget cuts could swell the size of New York City's homeless population.

The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections

A look at Latino voter trends in past election cycles with a look at how their influence might play out in the 2010 congressional elections.

Comparing the Level of Public Support: Charter Schools vs. Traditional Public Schools

Provides a comparison of the per student public financial support for charter schools to the level of per student funding at traditional public schools.

City's New Plan on Affordable Housing--Build Less, Preserve More

The revamped New Housing Marketplace Plan for the city calls for a shift in emphasis from building affordable housing to preserving the stock that's already available.

Empty On Funding, ACORN Shutters Around the Country

The New York branch of the low-income advocacy group will now become New York Communities for Change as local chapters throughout the country are being closed.

Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs

Hopes for an end to America's economic recession are tempered by the fact that millions of Americans may face years of unemployment before being able to re-enter the job market.

The Bronx is Kickin'

A blog on soccer in New York City, and my time as a volunteer with South Bronx United.

nybefore6.com

A guide to daytime, weekday jazz and classical concerts and other cultural events in Manhattan.

Kenmore Hall Courier

A tenant blog for a Chelsea, NY S.R.O. This S.R.O. had a terrible reputation before new management took over; despite improvements, conditions are still far from ideal.

NYC You Are Here

Concert, Movie, and Book Reviews. Music and art Happenings around NYC.

Ditmas Park Blog

A blog about the neighborhood of Ditmas Park.

Hawthorne Street Blog

A blog about the neighborhood of Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Brooklynology

Brooklynology is one of the ways Brooklyn public Library's Brooklyn Collection shares the wealth of its collections with the public. It's a great place to announce new acquisitions and programs, follow up on an enthusiasm, or point out something we think is hilariously funny.

New York Herald

Arts, Culture, Dining, Neighborhood News centering around Williamsburg/Greenpoint.

The Daily New Yorker

The Daily New Yorker is dedicated to a more perfect New York city. New Yorkers, and other contributors are encouraged to add to the conversations taking place or submit content of their own in any format that tells the story NYC citizens and visitors need to know.

Carnegie Hill Review

Social, cultural, and neighborhood news and events.