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Gentrification

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.

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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.

Saving Public Housing
By Building Anew

New York's public housing has suffered years of federal divestment, putting its future viability in doubt. When a team of urban designers explored the Lower East Side projects' open spaces, they found potential for NYCHA to not merely survive, but thrive.

City Limits Investigates:
Bushwick Under Bloomberg

Located in the very heart of New York City, this Brooklyn neighborhood encapsulates many of the ways life has changed in the Bloomberg era.

Behind A Stolid Facade,
The Whole Nation's Crisis

The recent transfers of one building in Bushwick occurred without heed to any notions of fiscal responsibility. Yet its residents live in the real world, where caretaking and stability are needed.

More Than Words?
Bloomberg and Race

The mayor has earned admiration from many quarters for improving the tenor of race relations. But the impact of his policies on blacks and Latinos give fodder to fans and foes alike.

Quiet Follows Harlem's
Rezoning For Redevelopment

The economy has accomplished what opponents of last year's 125th Street rezoning feared they could not: Slowing the pace of gentrification.

The Forty Years War

The 'war on drugs' continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks -- and who's caught in the conflict today.


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CONVERSATIONS/OPINONS

Supporting Businesses, Strengthening Neighborhoods

By Robert Walsh

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

By Richard Lipsky

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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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.

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