The new issue of City Limits Investigates reports on a week in the life of the New York City Council, combining the coverage of six reporters who attended every hearing and major event of the week and followed three Councilmembers through a day's work.

The story that emerges is one of contradictions—of hearings that offer cartoonish speechifying one moment and serious interrogation the next, of a legislative record in 2008 that included dozens of substantive new laws alongside 133 symbolic street re-namings, of a relationship with the mayor that includes 49 veto overrides as well as high-profile genuflections.

About City Limits Investigates

For more than 30 years, City Limits has covered the issues that matter to New York City's neighborhoods—from affordable housing to making a greener city to criminal justice issues. The print quarterly City Limits Investigates devotes each issue to in-depth investigative reporting on a subject of critical citywide importance. We dig deep to get you the facts and context you need to understand some of the most complicated and pressing issues facing our city. City Limits Investigates aims to benefit the civic conversation by providing unique, and uniquely useful, information to the city's policymakers, decision-makers and citizens.