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Coming Soon
The green will return. An exhibit of photos documenting the city's less-traveled places reveals an eye-opening amount of untouched natural beauty - like this summertime perch along the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden. Photo by Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy MCNY
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A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs. By Roberta Brandes Gratz >
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City Won't Vouch For Them:
No Solution For Unhoused
More than 2,000 needy New Yorkers received coveted Section 8 vouchers for major rental assistance. Then the vouchers were withdrawn - and housing officials have little else to say about it. By Eileen Markey >
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New York City Responds
To Earthquake In Haiti
Grief and action are mingled on 'the day after' in the third-largest Haitian community on the globe. Here's what's going on - and what you can do. By Abigail Kramer >
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A note to readers about our changing publication schedule, and the exciting content that lies just around the corner.
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By Karen Loew, CityLimits.org Editor >
It’s a new year, and a compromised moment for the controversial Senator Pedro Espada. Affordable housing advocates are agitating to replace him with a champion.
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By Eileen Markey >
The new decade brings fresh faces to nonprofits large and small and a host of city agencies - along with a major gap in state housing leadership.
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By Nekoro Gomes >
Critics of police policy say stopping half a million mostly innocent New Yorkers takes too steep a toll on freedom and dignity. With crime way down, now's the time to give the practice a rest.
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By Kesi Bem Foster >
First tenants feared that investors who paid exorbitant prices for modest-rent buildings would evict tenants or cut services. Now they're worried about what happens when those fears don't materialize.
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By Vinnie Rotondaro >
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THE HOUSING CRISIS
An Embedded Reporter In
The American Nightmare
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.
Proposed: NYC Should Have
Even Smaller Apartments
A reimagining of people's space needs could point a way out of the affordable housing shortage.
Behind A Stolid Facade,
The Whole Nation's Crisis
The recent transfers of one building in Bushwick occurred without heed to any notions of fiscal responsibility. Yet its residents live in the real world, where caretaking and stability are needed.
The Complex That
Just Became More So
Amid the confusion and clouds over Stuy Town, a silver lining may emerge: The ebbing of real estate speculation based on displacing tenants.
For Homeowners, Promised
Help Rarely Arrives
Mortgage companies, foreclosure counselors and government regulators disagree on the reasons why a federal program to help distressed homeowners is rescuing so few.
Foreclosure Fears Lead
To Tenants' Conundrum
First tenants feared that investors who paid exorbitant prices for modest-rent buildings would evict tenants or cut services. Now they're worried about what happens when those fears don't materialize.
more City Conversations >
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IN THE NEWS
New York City Plans to Topple Public Housing Towers
Prospect Plaza in Weeksville, Brooklyn is uninhabited and slated to be torn down and replaced with new public housing units.
The New York Times
City Seeks To Close 15 Day Care Centers In Budget Cut
In gentrified areas of Brooklyn, city officials say residents can afford to lose subsidized child care.
The New York Times
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AROUND THE WEB
250 Exonerated, Too Many Wrongfully Convicted
With the exoneration this week of a Rochester man wrongfully imprisoned on a rape charge, 250 people have been freed based on DNA evidence, says this new report.
New York Nonprofit Executive Directors Network
This blog, from the group formerly known as the Council of Community Services of New York State, connects and informs professionals around the state.
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IN THE NEWS
Riverton Houses In Harlem to Be Sold In Foreclosure
Following default by owner Stellar Management, a state judge has ordered that this famed enclave be sold at auction.
The New York Times
Comparisons Between Schools Slated For Closing And All Other Schools
Two days before the Panel for Educational Policy voted to close 19 public schools, this written evaluation with data sets was released.
Independent Budget Office of the City of New York
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