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For Low-Income Immigrants, Status Complicates Survival
C is like many students at Hunter College. She balances work and school, struggles to pay her tuition bill, wonders what the future will hold. Secretly, she also carries the burden of being an undocumented immigrant.
Life In A Livery Cab
Yellow cab drivers and owners were outspoken on both sides of the debate over a plan to permit outer-borough street hails. What do the livery drivers who now prowl those streets think about it?
Federal Funds Have City Planners Eyeing East New York, Bronx
A federal planning grant to be shared among several governments on either side of the New York-Connecticut border aims for transit-oriented development.
On The Move
The city's transit system is better than you think. It's also under more strain than politicians admit.
Five Boroughs. One City. No Plan.
Is the city's failure to plan a plan for failure?
Whose Dreams Will Decide?
The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.
The Casualties
"A lot of small businesses aren't getting the assistance they need to become more competitive."
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?
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.
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.
Progress Derailed: The Cause & Effect Of NYC's Transit Funding Crisis
Everyone who rides buses or subways knows that service is down and fares are heading up. But why is this happening? And does it spell danger for the city's economic future?
MTA's Bus Cuts: The Hardest Hit
Transit service reductions will inconvenience millions of commuters. But for thousands of people in a few neighborhoods, the cuts will be more deeply felt.
MTA Cuts Mean Bigger Crowds, More Problems
Transit cuts don't just mean fewer trains. There'll be less room on trains that are running. And that could compound other problems underground.
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.
New York’s Eccentric Road Signs
A city with as much gall as ours doesn’t wimp out, even at road signs.
Some See Racial Impact From Mass Transit Funding Crisis
With most U.S. transit systems considering service cuts or fare hikes, some advocates are painting the push for better federal funding not in terms of what's "green" but what’s black and white.
MTA Budget Cuts Pose New Threat To School Choice
If students can’t get to school for free anymore, how will they be able to freely choose among the city’s more than 400 high schools?
MTA Budget Cuts Will Hit Disabled
But even as the transit system reduces some services, it continues other efforts to improve accessibility.
Getting From Here To There
With deep transit cuts in the works, activists and officials prescribe new ways to travel around the city.
Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)
Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) oversees the New York City region's commuter rails, buses, subway systems, and operates multiple toll bridges and tunnels.
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Who's Afraid Of The Prospect Park West Bike Lane? - Jarrett Murphy
Watch City Limits' environment and transit correspondent Jake Mooney discuss what he found when he looked into the controversy over a Brooklyn bike lane.
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All I Want For Christmas Is A Subway To Staten Island
Gridlock Sam outlines his transit dreams for New York's future: the return of streetcars, more bus rapid transit and even a pedestrian bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
