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From Blue-Collar to the Welfare Line
Walter Greene worked for a living. Then the work disappeared. Now, like thousands of other low-income New Yorkers, he navigates homeless shelter rules and the welfare bureaucracy.
Music Lessons Improve Lives, Rarely Available In NYC Schools
As the city faces financial hardship again, some arts education activists worry that New York schools are turning their backs on teaching the arts.
Play Reflects Rage And Resilience In Katrina's Aftermath
The play, written by 16 women who survived Hurricane Katrina, is being performed Monday at the Apollo Theater in Harlem to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the storm.
Making Their Way
Immigrant Women Straddle Cultural Chasms
Hey New York! We're Number ... 49?
A worldwide ranking of cities for quality of life suggests that New York is not even the second best locale on the East Coast.
Term Limits, Party Politics On Bloomberg Charter Panel's Menu
After the first round of hearings on how to revise the city's charter, a list has emerged of what New Yorkers want to change about their government.
Homage For A Working Class Hero
Mervyn E. Simon was not a politician, nor was he ever an officially recognized activist, but he showed that one person can impact a community-at-large, by helping others one at a time.
Feeling the Recession's Impact
Dressing For Success
An exhibit on how clothes make the worker is provocative but falls short of its promise.
Kids Who Can't Get
Enough of School
One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.
More Than Words?
Bloomberg and Race
Quiet Follows Harlem's
Rezoning For Redevelopment
Nonprofits' Outlook After A
Year Of Living Dangerously
Building New Capacities
The City's Latest
Hirings and Retirings
Between Two Beaches,
Debate Crests Over A Park
OTHER DAVIDS READY THEIR
Slings In Run For Mayor
Second In Command:
A Lawyer's Argument
Free Museums Welcome
The Littlest Learners
THE CHAMBER
Theater is one of the largest cultural exports of New York City due to the wide variety of Broadway musicals, independent plays, and college productions it has to offer. The numerous shows that the city hosts attract movie stars, celebrities, and other actors from around the world.
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A Place at the Table
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
6:00pm -
DAMION SILVER and SCOTTY ALBRECHT
Saturday, May 25, 2013
:p - 9:00p
Intro to Wet Plate Photography Workshop with Sam Dole
Saturday, May 25, 2013
10:00a - 6:00p
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Poverty In Brooklyn: A Block by Block Analysis
The Institute for Children, Poverty, & Homelessness provide an in-depth look at New York City's largest borough's poverty rates.
Anatomy of a Sign- NYC DOT
Directed By Robert Hooman The NYC DOT fabricates, maintains and installs over 1 million signs a year and roughly 9000 a month. All this is done with just 22 people out of a workshop in Maspeth Queens. The unsung heros of the NYC DOT put a lot of hard work and dedication into maintaining our city's infrastructure and it was fitting and very satisfying to make a film about them and put a little spotlight on their hard work.
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CITY LIMITS EVENTS
Defining Brooklyn Launch
City Limits celebrates the launch of its March 2011 issue: Defining Brooklyn.The 35th Anniversary Celebration
City Limits celebrates its 35th Anniversary at BMCC in Tribeca.Brooklyn Bureau Launch
The Brooklyn Bureau launch as part of Social Media Week 2012.Tackling Poverty
The Tackling Poverty Series at Galapagos Art Space in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn.Tackling Poverty (Manhattan)
City Limits & the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness
