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BrooklynEdges: A Mosaic Grows as Boerum Hill Changes
For 10 years, as the neighborhood around her Wyckoff Street address has changed, Susan Gardner has been covering her house in color.
Cuts Cripple Housing Assistance Network in Inwood, Washington Heights
Residents looking for help with housing disputes must line up as early as 3 a.m to get assistance from cash-strapped community organizations in particularly vulnerable northern Manhattan neighborhoods.
Shopping For Change In Crown Heights
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?
Quitting Time: A Factory's Fall, A Neighborhood's Fallout
The 2007 closure of a Pfizer factory in Brooklyn was a milestone in manufacturing's retreat from the borough. Chapter three of "Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand" looks at what it's meant for a neighborhood and its residents.
Whose Dreams Will Decide?
The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.
The Life And Death Of The Mom-n-Pop
Small businesses help make New York's neighborhoods. But as the next issue of City Limits reports, economic trends and policy decisions are threatening their survival.
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.
Saga Of The Worthless Condo
A developer broke the rules, the city belatedly cracked down and dozens of Brooklyn families own property with no legal right to exist.
HPD: Prevent Cycle Of Foreclosure & Displacement
The city steps in, hoping to rescue 10 Bronx buildings laid low by overambitious investors, potentially establishing a model for rescuing others.
1,500 Protest Plans To Eliminate 16 NYC Public Day Care Centers
If enacted, the cuts would slash about 2,000 of New York's public day care slots. The city claims less families are using the service.
The Search for the Smoking Gun
The reasons for the race gap
A Quiet Alarm Sounds
A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.
'There Is No Science': Geoffrey Canada's Philosophy
A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.
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Bushwick Under Bloomberg
Behind A Stolid Facade,
The Whole Nation's Crisis
More Than Words?
Bloomberg and Race
Quiet Follows Harlem's
Rezoning For Redevelopment
The Forty Years War
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Supporting Businesses, Strengthening Neighborhoods
The city's commissioner of small business services says New York's efforts to bolster Business Improvement Districts will help to preserve the mom-and-pop character of neighborhood retail.
Opinion: Small Businesses Suffer Under A Businessman Mayor
As City Limits reports on the plight of small businesses in the five boroughs, a lobbyist for small firms blames the struggle mostly on Mayor Bloomberg.
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The Nation's Top 50 Transit Systems
The National Transit Database compares the largest mass transit systems in the United States.
A New Standard For Proficiency: College Readiness
Many of the students currently labeled proficient according to New York State annual exams require remedial work when they get to college, according to research the regents commissioned. The New York State Regents endorsed plans Monday to raise the scores and complicate the test, ending years of debate about whether the tests had become too easy.
