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Promises To Keep:
The Obama Poverty Plan
2/8/10 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
2/7/10 A sampling of opinion from the streets of Harlem yields a positive view of the Children’s Zone.
Lesson Plans:
A Teacher Speaks
2/5/10 What's it like teaching inside the school that’s become a national model for community improvement? A Promise Academy instructor explains.
'There Is No Science':
Canada's Philosophy
2/4/10 A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.
Kids Who Can't Get
Enough of School
2/3/10 One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.
Quiet Follows Harlem's
Rezoning For Redevelopment
9/14/09 The economy has accomplished what opponents of last year's 125th Street rezoning feared they could not: Slowing the pace of gentrification.
In Far Rockaway, Pretty
Beach Meets Housing Bust
6/9/08 The Rockaway Peninsula's tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fated spec buildings disintegrating next to successful new housing development, and a rezoning belatedly attempting to instill order.
City Limits News Network
Two Boroughs, One World: Brooklyn and Queens Immigrants Unionize
Knickerbocker Avenue labor campaign unites neighborhoods.
Queens Ledger
Queens Ledger
In a Bronx Basement, Complaints Linger Long After Lease Is Signed
Bronx residents blast troubled Belmont Dept of Motor Vehicles office.
Inner City Press
Inner City Press
Working New Yorkers Struggle to Find Child Care
Sharon Lerner reports on the shortage of affordable child care services in New York.
WNYC
WNYC
Keeping Kids In School
New York City’s high school dropout rate remains alarming.
Gotham Gazette
Gotham Gazette
Budget Options For New York City
IBO presents 60 cost-saving measures for the city budget.
Independent Budget Office
Independent Budget Office
Multimedia
Lower Density Growth Management Area
Provides a look at the affected multi-family residential developments in the Bronx, and the city's plan to re-zone areas of the Throgs neck section of the Bronx to allow for more parking among those developments.
The Brian Lehrer Show: Assessing the Harlem Children's Zone
This interview by WNYC's Brian Lehrer with City Limits Contributing Writer Helen Zelon, assesses the successes and challenges facing New York City's Harlem Children's Zone
Graffiti in New York City
A compilation of images of street graffiti throughout New York City
Neighborhood-Based Placements for Children in Foster Care
Data from the Administration for Children's Services shows the number of placements into foster care are into boarding homes. More than 60 percent of the children placed into foster care are done so in their borough.
Closing the Skills Gap
This report, jointly published by CUF and the Community Service Society, finds that New York City faces a human capital crisis that could threaten the city's long-term economic competitiveness while relegating countless residents to low-wage jobs.
Congressional Districts Rankings and Hunger Rates
The nationwide survey of more than half a million households found that in 2009 more than one in six of New York households reported in 2009 not having enough money to buy food that they needed during the prior twelve months for themselves or their family.
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Announcements
$8M IN LOST REVENUES AT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
NEW YORK, NY - The Department of Finance (DOF) is failing to properly track and collect tax revenue due on taxi cabs and other commercial vehicles, depriving the City of more than $8 million, according to an audit initiated under former Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. and just completed by Comptroller John C. Liu. The Commercial Motor Vehicle Tax (CMVT) brings in $47 million annually.
Advocates Call for Release of Varick Detainees
New York, NY (February 1, 2010) – A broad coalition of 16 national and community groups, legal service providers, and advocacy organizations including the New York Civil Liberties Union urged the Department of Homeland Security to release immigrant detainees currently held at the Varick Federal Detention Facility and to provide reasonable alternatives to detention. The call for release comes in response to the recent announcement that the downtown Manhattan detention center would be closed and its roughly 300 detainees moved to a New Jersey county jail.
Free Legal Assistance to Patients from Haiti
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) opened a special legal clinic at Kings County Hospital Center run by LegalHealth, a division of the New York Legal Assistance Group, to offer free legal assistance to Haitian patients and families seeking Temporary Protective Status (TPS). Legal professionals and volunteers will be available at the walk-in clinic every Friday from 9:30 am -1:00 pm to assist patients and their families who may qualify for this special status.
Immigrants in Staten Island Weigh-In on Wall St.
On the heels of a State of the Union address certain to feature the Obama Administration's new proposals for Wall Street reforms, the Make the Road New York and Main Street Alliance will hold an event at an immigrant owned small business to release a new report Main Street Policy Pulse: Small Business Views on Financial Reform.
Queens Councilmembers Respond to Selection
NEW YORK, NY- New York City Council Deputy Majority Leader and Land Use Committee chairman Leroy Comrie (D-27th District), Civil Service & Labor Committee chairman James Sanders Jr. (D-31st District) and Economic Development Committee chairman Thomas White Jr. (D-28th District) issued the following statement today regarding Governor Paterson’s selection of a bidder to operate the proposed Video Lottery Terminal at Aqueduct Racetrack:
Bronx Housing
Changing the Court
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A collection of news from the Bronx
BoogieDowner
Yes, the Bronx IS burning... Burning hot with cultural events, amazing architecture, tight knit residential communities, and acres and acres of wide open green space.
The Bronx Stop
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