City Topics is one of New York City's best resources for coverage of issues that define the fabric of urban affairs, which includes City Limits current stories and coverage, and archival history.
Discover more about public policy issues in New York City and utilize the tools we provide to inform citizens to learn more about what's happening in the five boroughs.
Activism & Volunteerism
New York City has a long history of ordinary people effecting extraordinary change through active engagement with their governments, communities, and fellow residents. Read about any one of the many social issues covered in City Limits’ 30-year history, that inspired movements formed around the basic need to get involved. >>
Arts & Culture
The development of a vibrant and thriving arts community is only natural in a city as diverse as New York. While City Limits is most identified with thorough and hard-hitting social and political reportage, our breadth of arts and culture-based coverage will surprise and enlighten you. >>
Business & Money
Media coverage of the movement of capital and the process of acquisitions in New York’s traditional media world tends to overlook the everyday citizens most affected by irresponsible business practices. We identify the trends in the city’s financial markets and their effect on the city’s Main Street well before anyone else. >>
Education
With more than 1 million students, New York City is home to the largest public school system in the country. City Limits education coverage focuses on the need for the city’s Department of Education to be held accountable for decisions that affect learners from Universal Pre-Kindergarten to high school and beyond. >>
Environment & Energy
From coverage of hydroelectric energy turbines along the East River to eco-friendly affordable housing in the south Bronx, City Limits’ stories on environmental and energy-related projects are among the most illuminating in the city. As New York expands its green initiatives, City Limits will continue to be there first, providing readers with information on the projects that might enhance or imperil their neighborhoods. >>
Government & Politics
Politics is defined as the art or science of government, and through our coverage, readers get a clear sense of how political affairs in New York City is a unique mixture of the two. From analyzing Mayor Bloomberg's relationship with the city's press corps to features on the political power of the city's freelancers, we keep our fingers firmly on the pulse of the city's different political currents. >>
Homelessness
One of the bedrock issues of City Limits reportage, our publication strives to give valuable information on accurate numbers of the city’s homeless population and the strategies aimed at combating homelessness. And over the course of 30 years, we have become a prized resource for advocates, legislators, and others interested in learning more about one of the city’s most vulnerable demographics. >>
Housing
New York City has one of the most diverse housing stocks in the country, with many residents living in houses, private apartments or public housing. City Limits coverage of housing issues identifies the effect of trends, legislation and policies for New York’s housing market on low- and middle-income residents who call the city home. >>
Immigration
Throughout its history, present, and future, New York will always be a city uniquely shaped by its large population of immigrants. City Limits covers a wide cross-section of the city’s different ethnic communities, giving readers an insight into their diverse set of needs and contributions to the city’s landscape. >>
Law & Justice
The importance of criminal, civil, housing, and family court institutions in New York City in adjudicating a wide array of legal issues with social bases cannot be denied. Our coverage presents the needs and perspectives of people on all sides of the city’s justice system, from the legislators and judges tasked with handing down the law, to the legal advocates and residents themselves working to understand it. >>
LGBTQ
City Limits coverage of the city’s diverse LGBTQ community focuses on their challenges and advocacy efforts in being recognized as equal partners in the city at-large. City Limits has featured stories on the need for more governmental support and networking among LGBTQ communities in need of HIV and AIDS services, to the importance of preserving safe spaces in the city for LGBTQ populations of color who may be stigmatized in their own neighborhoods. >>
Neighborhoods
New York is a city stratified by the diversity of its many different neighborhoods, and our community coverage of different issues particular to neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs is a key part of City Limits’ mission. But while our coverage may focus on issues that seem endemic to one neighborhood in particular--like policing practices in Bedford-Stuyvesant or living wage battles in the Bronx--they also highlight community-oriented policies shaping the city at-large. >>
Nonprofits
Through its commitment to covering social issues and policies affecting the city’s most vulnerable, City Limits has become a valuable resource for many advocates in New York’s nonprofit community. Our nonprofit coverage provides readers with a broad cross-section of the challenges facing New York nonprofits, as well providing a voice for, and insight into, the movers and shakers in the industry. >>
Poverty
The complex and amorphous nature of poverty in New York City has lent itself to a wide array of uniquely designed programs and organizations focused on alleviating the conditions that classify a person as poor. City Limits has never failed to shy away from examining the holes in the city’s safety net, and our coverage often highlights the effect of government practices and other trends on many different subsets of the city’s poor. >>
Public Health
New York’s incredibly diverse population poses a number of broad and small-scale health challenges to government officials and nonprofits. As a result, our features on public health issues are similarly structured, with wide-ranging features on the need for mental health or translation services in our public hospitals contrasted with the challenges facing people living with infectious diseases, or seeking access to healthy food choices. >>
Race & Ethnicity
At City Limits, the intersections between race, ethnicity, language in the city's neighborhoods are issues we are committed to focusing on in every aspect of our coverage. Our features have examined the persistent achievement gaps between the races in our public school system, the predominance of black and Latino children in the city’s foster care system, as well as the records of the elected officials as representatives on human rights and diversity-based issues. >>
Urban Planning & Policy
In its urban planning and policy coverage, City Limits often utilizes New York’s many research institutions, advocacy groups, and government programs in the service of analyzing what is effective in a city with a number of urban planning needs. We highlight policy reports and other studies in our coverage in a way that elevates the discussion of planning issues as they affect residents. >>
Voices
At City Limits, we pride ourselves on covering the other New York. As such, our coverage not only features in-depth interviews, profiles and editorials by government officials, tireless advocates and thought-provoking academics. We also strive to establish City Limits as a platform for ordinary citizens engaged with their communities in amazing and interesting ways. >>
Women
City Limits coverage of women's issues in New York City is aimed at providing readers with insights into everything from the economic status of women to the need for quality health services among them. Our repeated commitment to covering stories on sexual battery issues, the need for childcare access, opportunities for advanced career pathways, and other topics that concern low- and middle-income women will continue to be a valued perspective in our reportage. >>
Workforce & Labor
New York City is home to a proud labor past and an innovative future in workforce development programs. City Limits diligently covers the impact of the many different programs that may or may not work, and the lives of the many different laborers that earn. >>
Youth & Families
Perhaps the single-most highlighted focus of City Limits coverage, our features on our city’s youngest citizens and the families they may or may not be a part of is a recurring theme in many City Limits stories. In our education, child welfare, and family support reporting, we have often given voice to the needs of those low-income New Yorkers most likely to be affected by government policy and nonprofit service changes. >>
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.
