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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Artists: City Enforces Rule Even After Court Injunction

Despite the issuance of court orders temporarily restraining the city from enforcing rules that curtail art vending in four city parks, parks department officials have continued to try to enforce them, artists say.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

DOJ: 4 NYS Prisons Among Nation's Most Sexually Abusive

New York State has four of the 11 prisons and jails found in a sample to have the highest rates of staff-inmate sexual misconduct.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Reading The Political Tea Leaves Of Harlem's State Senate Race

Will charter schools, the age difference between the candidates and Harlem's changing racial and income demographics determine the outcome of the race between Bill Perkins and Basil Smikle?

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bloomberg Deputy's Legacy, From Yankee Stadium To Hudson Yards

Nearly three years after Mayor Bloomberg's powerful deputy mayor and development czar Dan Doctoroff left City Hall, we check in on some of the major—and controversial—projects launched during his tenure.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Iraq: The Five Boroughs' Toll

As President Obama prepares to address the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq, a look at the 64 city residents who perished in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Monday, August 30, 2010

We Won Race To The Top Money. Now What?

One thing that is clear, and of concern to many advocates and educators, is that the money isn’t going to particular school based-programs.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Citizens Can Weigh In On Term Limits, Other Charter Changes

The Campaign Finance Board is collecting pro and con statements on the two ballot questions proposed by the Charter Revision Commission. Learn how to offer your two cents.

Friday, August 27, 2010

NYC Continues Efforts To Curtail Art Vending In Public Parks

The city and local artists are battling in court over rules that would reduce by more than 75 percent the number of artists selling their work in Union Square Park, Central Park and other parks.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

NYC's Fake Grass Gamble: A $300M Mistake?

In 1998, New York City began installing synthetic turf fields in parks and playgrounds, saying the artificial material would be more durable than grass. But a City Limits investigation finds that many turf fields are falling apart, including this one at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Ground Game

Signs of deterioration in the city's parks.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Costs and Benefits: The Economic Case for Artificial Turf

It didn't immediately look like a mistake. When the city first made the case, many agreed: Common Sense seemed to dictate the move to artificial turf.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The City on Defense: Dismissing Questions About Health

Back in the spring of 2002, as New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe was extolling the benefits of synthetic turf, a study by professors at Brigham Young University in faraway Utah told a different story.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

It Won't Taste Great: The Health Questions Multiply

While the city maintains that synthetic turf encourages exercise, many health questions on its effects remain.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A Test For Testing: New Products, New Rules

In the absence of federal guidelines for acceptable lead levels in artificial turf fields, and after repeated assertions to the fields safety, the city quietly began testing for lead on the city's fields in 2008.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

A Swing and a Hit: An Alternative at the Ballpark

While the city cuts the manpower needed to maintain natural grass fields and avoids paying benefits to workers, future generations are saddled with the debt of expensive synthetic turf installation.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Nonprofit Eyeing Distressed Buildings Faces Tenant Resistance

Hope Community LDC wants to purchase 47 East Harlem buildings out of foreclosure. But a tenant organization has raised questions about the would-be buyer's past record.

Monday, August 23, 2010

"Enemies" of Reform Question Koch's Agenda, Style

Some legislators labeled enemies of reform by the newly formed advocacy group New York Uprising are bristling over the categorization and writing letters or making phone calls to protest it.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Surf's Up, Ferry's Down: The Rockaways' Transit Troubles

The peninsula's long journey out of the economic devastation will be challenged—but, some residents insist, not stopped—by cuts to ferry service and increases in bridge tolls.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

When Brooklyn Projects Go Down, What Will Go Up?

NYCHA's using community input to plan for what to build after three public housing towers are demolished. But the plan means a loss of public housing, and it confronts deep distrust from some tenants.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

NYC Food Pantries Going Green

Local Produce Link enables food pantries to get the same locally grown, farm fresh, and sometimes organic produce as posh Manhattan restaurants.
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New York Communities Take on Foreclosures

A commentary from Nation Magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel highlights the foreclosure problem in New York City.

Agencies Almost Always Have The Last Word

Courts have little power to overturn decisions by agency hearing officers — as two evicted public housing tenants recently learned.

New York's Recovery Is Stronger Than Nation's, But Still Uneven

New York City has weathered the recession far better than was feared during the financial crisis, but outside of Manhattan the view is often bleaker.

One Simple Path To A Degree

This article examines a proposal by a California state legislator that would require community colleges to provide students with a clear path on how to acquire their degree.

New Bronx Resource Guide for Family Caregivers

The Office of Community Health at Montefiore Medical Center has just released "Caring for Yourself While Caregiving," a new resource guide for Bronx-based family caregivers. Available in English and Spanish, the guide provides 32 pages of helpful, low-cost resources in six unique categories for people caring for an aging parent, spouse, partner, elderly relative, child with an illness or disability, or another person close to them. To order a copy, call (718) 920-6576 or email PCareSupport@montefiore.org.

100,000 Homes for 100,000 Vulnerable Americans

Invisiblepeople.tv's Mark Horvath posts the following article on the launch of the "100,000 Homes Campaign", organized by Common Ground.

Will The Gowanus Ever Be Cleaned Up

For nearly a year, residents, politicians, businesspeople and others battled over the EPA’s consideration of the 1.8-mile waterway for a Superfund listing.

Bronx Economic Czar Marlene Cintron Hits the Pavement To Encourage Investing In The Bronx

Marlene Cintron, President of the BOEDC, Helps Promote Owner Occupied Communities in The Bronx by Participating in Grand Concourse/Mosholu Art-Deco Co-op Trolley Tour and Sees a Bright Future For the Borough

Court Upholds Columbia Campus Expansion

Columbia University's use of eminent domain to build an additional campus in West Harlem is upheld by The New York State Court of Appeals

New York Looks to Board High Speed Rail

This article from the Gotham Gazette takes a look at the possibility for federal funding of high-speed rail initiatives that could connect New York City to other cities throughout the state.

Crown Heights Community Mediation Center

The Mediation Center is a unique neighborhood institution that works to improve community problem-solving, collaboration, and inter-group relations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Operating out of our storefront offices since 1998, the Mediation Center seeks innovative ways to promote community cohesion in our neighborhood, known for fragmentation. This includes providing residents with links to resources on issues like education, parenting, housing, and immigration; providing support to young people navigating the challenges of a community tainted by violence, drugs, and poverty; and galvanizing neighborhood, borough, and city stakeholders in order to improve the quality of life for all residents.

NY Convergence

NY Convergence, the only online news site exclusively covering digital media and tech industry developments throughout New York is now in beta. Content, updated throughout each day, is available via daily e-newsletter, Twitter, iPhone, Facebook, RSS and widget. Queries and feedback welcome:tips@nyconvergence.com.

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.