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“If you get cash assistance, you are caught up in really significant delays, in a way that you would not be if you were only receiving SNAP,” said Katie Kelleher of the The Legal Aid Society, a lead attorney on a federal lawsuit compelling the city to improve its processing times.
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“If you get cash assistance, you are caught up in really significant delays, in a way that you would not be if you were only receiving SNAP,” said...
Each summer, an estimated 350 people in New York City are killed by heat stress or by an illness exacerbated by hot weather. Of those who die at home, a majority lack air conditioning, according to city Health Department data.
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"An air conditioner is not a luxury anymore," said State Sen. Cordell Cleare, who introduced a bill to expand the state-run Cooling Assistance...
Greenland does have incentive to build: since 2016, it’s been paying the MTA $11 million a year for development rights over the railyard, and must pay through 2030 to gain control of the six sites. Those payments fulfill a 2009 revision of the initially pledged $100 million payment for development rights.
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The developer and MTA have come to agreement on the platform needed for three towers, but Greenland USA won’t proceed without a key tax break.
Disturbing disparities exist in New York City: from 2001 to 2019, the pregnancy-related mortality ratio was on average 9.2 times higher for Black pregnant people compared to white people, as documented in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s 2019 Pregnancy-Associated Mortality report. While in 2021 New York City reported a decrease in the overall infant mortality rate, it remains much higher for Black babies, with rates 3.4 times higher than for white babies.
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Since 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for New York City youth who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their neighborhoods.
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Opinion: Closing the Loophole in NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Oversight
“The federal monitor overseeing the NYPD stop and frisk reforms has repeatedly warned that officers are under-reporting stops, leading to a likely massive undercount. In my case, this meant that I was not able to identify the officers who stopped me, since they never filled out the required stop report.” https://ow.ly/iL8b50PCBfY
✒️ Terron Belle was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s unconstitutional practice of prolonging stops to demand a person’s identification to run unrelated warrant checks. Belle lives in Harlem.
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"The federal monitor overseeing the NYPD stop and frisk reforms has repeatedly warned that officers are under-reporting stops, leading to a likely...
71-year-old Elizabeth Stanley, senior president of the Remsen Sarita Jean Older Adult Club, told City Limits she lived across the street and helped organize a variety of fun events for her fellow seniors, from birthday parties to “hat” day. “People come out to laugh and enjoy themselves,” she said.
“Some people, seniors like ourselves, some of them can’t afford air conditioners, so they need a place they can come cool off for a little while,” explained Stanley. “With this heat, a fan can’t do it.” https://ow.ly/BKEc50PFssv
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🤔 What is CLARIFY?
Since 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for New York City youth who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their own neighborhoods.
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With climate change and extreme heat, people are beginning to realize the necessity of the Cooling Centers program and are more invested in...
With climate change and extreme heat, people are beginning to realize the necessity of the Cooling Centers program and are more invested in improving it.
Opinion: Recognizing Queens’ Hip-Hop Legacy, 50 Years Later
“The Bronx may have birthed hip-hop, but Queens embraced it with open arms and nurtured its growth. As the phenomenon spread through New York City, Queens quickly established itself as a hotbed for talent, nurturing the creativity of aspiring artists who would later become legends.” https://ow.ly/tatX50PCtcg
✒️ Op-ed by: New York City Council Member Nantasha Williams is the representative for Council District 27 in Southeast .
💡 Op-eds by stakeholders, policymakers and other citizens of New York. Want to submit an opinion piece? Email: Jeanmarie(at)citylimits(dot)org.
"The Bronx may have birthed hip-hop, but Queens embraced it with open arms and nurtured its growth."
Opinion: City Council Must Act to Keep NYPD Radio Transmissions Public
“An independent, informed press is an essential check against the police, and it is critical that police radios remain open for journalists to monitor police actions and breaking news events.” https://ow.ly/LnoJ50PEuyS
✒️ Andy Ratto is a legal intern at the STOP - Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and is currently studying at CUNY School of Law. He has previously worked in campaign politics, non-profits, fundraising, freelance journalism, and political communications.
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"An independent, informed press is an essential check against the police, and it is critical that police radios remain open for journalists to...
Without action to mitigate climate change, NYC can expect to see the number of days at or above 90 degrees double by the 2050s. Facing this reality, some are spearheading visions for a revamped cooling center program. https://ow.ly/BKEc50PFssv
But how? See the latest investigation by our Clarify News youth reporters.
🤔 What is CLARIFY?
Since 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for New York City youth who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their own neighborhoods.
Learn more about City Limits' CLARIFY program: https://ow.ly/IJ3C50PFswQ
With climate change and extreme heat, people are beginning to realize the necessity of the Cooling Centers program and are more invested in improving it.
“With all of the capacity crunches that have been going on recently, we want to, as efficiently as possible, identify people who need shelter and get everyone focused on helping them move on to the next step,” said Lindsey Davis, senior director of crisis services at Coalition for the Homeless, Inc.
“For a lot of people, where they’re coming from was a complicated situation that may have been fairly traumatic for them,” she continued. “As quickly as we can get people through that process, everyone can move forward. Including so that they can move out of shelter.”
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Landing a secure shelter placement is far more complicated than simply walking through the doors of an intake center, particularly for families,...
Bronx tenant Randy Dillard is on the steering committee of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition, which is demanding separate funding for Local Law 53. He recalled pushing for the law after learning that many tenants facing eviction were not aware of their rights.
“Why can’t the law be what we asked it to be? We had to fight and go back to City Council to get them to put the funding in,” he told City Limits. Community groups that tenants trust should take the lead on outreach efforts, Dillard added.
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Nonprofit legal service providers often file group lawsuits that assist tenants fighting landlord harassment. A new city solicitation appears to...
HEAP is paid for by the federal government and distributed to states via a funding formula, which provided New York with $15 million for the cooling assistance portion this year.
About 15,000 households were approved for the subsidy—including 5,600 in New York City—before money ran out and the state closed applications on July 15, weeks before a heat wave hit the city.
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"An air conditioner is not a luxury anymore," said State Sen. Cordell Cleare, who introduced a bill to expand the state-run Cooling Assistance...
“Seeking asylum has become nearly as difficult as getting here in the first place.”
Raiza Guevara, a Make the Road New York member who came to NYC from Venezuela after a harrowing border crossing, on the need for more legal services resources for new arrivals:
"Seeking asylum has become nearly as difficult as getting here in the first place."
Entre el 2000 y el 2013, se recortó más del 50 por ciento de los fondos para rehabilitar viviendas públicas, según un estudio de Human Rights Watch en 2022.
A nivel nacional, según el HUD, se han convertido más de 200.000 unidades bajo RAD en ciudades como Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago y San Francisco, incluidas decenas de miles de apartamentos en NYCHA en los últimos años.
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A los residentes de conjuntos de viviendas públicas en la ciudad de Nueva York se les está presentando dos propuestas destinadas a desbloquear...
Though B1 was proposed as an office tower, a bulk shift to Site 5 could add hundreds of apartments. The buildable square footage might be worth $300 million, at least before factoring in affordable housing. So the affordability levels may relate to not just available subsidies and tax breaks, but also the state’s willingness to pressure the developer.
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Opinion: Towards a ‘City Island of Yes’
“We cannot continue to uphold zoning for ‘character’ to such an extent that we leave communities stunted for growth AND community members on the streets and in unstable situations.” https://ow.ly/iMxr50PAzWn
✒️ Lauren Nye is a sixth generation New Yorker, with a decade-plus of experience in New York City’s community and economic development sectors, and a capstone project that analyzes City Island’s land use designation as a special purpose district.
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"We cannot continue to uphold zoning for 'character' to such an extent that we leave communities stunted for growth AND community members on the...
🤔 What is The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program?
The program was introduced in 2011 under the Obama administration. As public housing authorities across the country age and deteriorate, RAD is one of the federal government’s solutions to help financially support these housing agencies and pay for needed repairs by leveraging private capital, rather than relying on the political whims of Washington to deliver adequate funding, something Congress has largely failed to do for years.
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Across New York City’s cash-strapped affordable housing complexes, residents are being presented with two dense proposals intended to unlock...
“It was just beautiful,” she said. “Nobody thought it was something that’s going to cause illnesses later on in life.” Now, Claudia Coger looks back on that smoke as the “silent enemy” that has fueled the asthma crisis in her neighborhood, earning it the nickname “asthma alley.”
“I’ve been blessed not to suffer from asthma, but I know the record,” said Coger. “And I know if they don’t do something about it, it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse.”
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A plan to transform the Ravenswood plant into a clean energy center is in the works, with a vote on an offshore wind proposal expected this fall.
“With this heat, a fan can’t do it.”
As climate change makes extreme heat more likely, advocates say there are ways the city can make its Cooling Centers more accessible and better utilized.
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With climate change and extreme heat, people are beginning to realize the necessity of the Cooling Centers program and are more invested in improving it.
Opinion: Protecting New Yorkers From the Injustice of Wrongful Convictions
“Collectively, we spent 69 years in prison for crimes we did not commit. We are now outside of prison because we were granted clemency and parole, respectively, but having yet to be exonerated, in many ways we are still not free.” https://ow.ly/icfi50PC6zF
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✒️ Greg Mingo is a senior advisor to CUNY School of Law/The Second Look Project and an ambassador to the Innocence Project.
✒️ Anthony Sims is a business associate at the Ford Foundation.
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"The best way to restore trust in the system, ensure the integrity of convictions, and keep innocent people out of prison is for the governor to...
Catherine Trapani, executive director of Homeless Services United (HSU), said the waiver list is concerning, even if OTDA says current shelter vacancy rates preclude their use. Her organization represents 50 nonprofits that contract with the city.
Trapani predicted that the lack of storage for preventative medicine could lead to an emergency, while clean bedding and toiletries are basic necessities.
“I think that the residents of shelter, regardless of what shelter system they are in, deserve to have a minimum standard of care,” she said. “And so when we’re talking about the right to have clean sheets, that really shouldn’t be something we should be looking to negotiate away.”
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New York State has agreed to waive certain shelter requirements in instances where no alternative is available—specifically for adult migrants in...
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries, with nearly 33 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to national statistics. As global temperatures rise, climate change-related exposures pose increasingly serious health effects for pregnant women, developing fetuses, and children.
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🤔 What is CLARIFY?
Since 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for New York City youth who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their neighborhoods.
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🤔 ¿Cómo han cambiado los grupos de origen hispano en ?
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👉🏽 Ciudad Sin Límites, el proyecto en español de City Limits, y El Diario de Nueva York se han unido para crear el pódcast “El Diario Sin Límites” para hablar sobre latinos y política.
De los hispanos que vivían en el país en 2021, la gran mayoría, alrededor del 81 por ciento, eran ciudadanos estadounidenses. El pasado 16 de...
Understanding the barriers to shelter access is particularly important at a moment when:
▪️ more than 100K people are in the city’s shelter system
▪️ including more than 80K in DHS facilities
▪️ more than 30.9K of them asylum seekers
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Landing a secure shelter placement is far more complicated than simply walking through the doors of an intake center, particularly for families,...
Keriann Pauls, director of coalitions and resource management at TakeRoot Justice— part of the LEAP Coalition, a group of providers that contract with AHTP—said that the language regarding case caps is somewhat vague but concerning, and must be clarified.
Group cases are impactful, she added, as they can help an entire building’s worth of tenants in one go. “It’s way more efficient and effective and actually will change landlord behavior,” Pauls said. “You can file one case on behalf of one tenant about their cooking gas being shut off, but how much impact is that having with the landlord?”
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Nonprofit legal service providers often file group lawsuits that assist tenants fighting landlord harassment. A new city solicitation appears to...
“Extreme heat—especially when combined with high humidity—is the deadliest impact of climate change. But it does not impact everyone equally,” Caleb Smith, of the organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice, said in statement in support of Cleare’s legislation.
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"An air conditioner is not a luxury anymore," said State Sen. Cordell Cleare, who introduced a bill to expand the state-run Cooling Assistance...
¿Qué es la Enmienda Faircloth?
En 1999, se promulgó la Faircloth Amendment (Enmienda Faircloth) para limitar la cantidad de propiedades que una autoridad de vivienda pública puede poseer y administrar. Como resultado, se suspendieron los proyectos de construcción.
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A los residentes de conjuntos de viviendas públicas en la ciudad de Nueva York se les está presentando dos propuestas destinadas a desbloquear...
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That process would involve not just the railyard towers, but the plan, floated by the developer in 2016, to shift the bulk of the unbuilt flagship tower—designated “B1” and once slated to loom over the arena—across Flatbush Avenue to Site 5, longtime home to two big-box stores.
A substantial building has already been approved for Site 5, a parcel bounded by Atlantic, Flatbush, and Fourth avenues, as well as Pacific Street. But shifting most but not all of the bulk would preserve the sponsored Barclays Center plaza, crucial to arena operations, and could create a much larger two-tower project.
That bulk shift would require, beyond initial public engagement, an approval process lasting a year before ESD’s parent board—typically a rubber stamp for the governor—amends project documents.
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A recent Physical Needs Assessment (PNA) determined that NYCHA needs an estimated $78.3 billion to make capital repairs across its more than 300 campuses—including new flooring, windows, kitchen appliances, upgraded outdoor spaces and security systems.
A 73 percent increase since its last assessment five years earlier.
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Across New York City’s cash-strapped affordable housing complexes, residents are being presented with two dense proposals intended to unlock...
“The largest public housing development in the country is sitting across from Ravenswood and it was no accident that it was placed there,” said Costa Constantinides, who has lived in the neighborhood his entire life.
“There was deliberate environmental racism here.”
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A plan to transform the Ravenswood plant into a clean energy center is in the works, with a vote on an offshore wind proposal expected this fall.
Beatriz, a Bronx mother of two who asked to be identified by first name only, submitted the documentation necessary to recertify her SNAP and cash assistance in May, far ahead of her July 31 deadline. A message on HRA’s website informed her that within 10 business days, a representative would reach out to conduct the phone interview with her. But no one ever called, Beatriz said.
Then, at the beginning of August, Beatriz received a letter in the mail that her SNAP and cash assistance had been discontinued. She had to scramble, calling One Number and waiting on hold for more than six hours without resolution. She ultimately did her own Google search to find the new on-demand number and complete her interview.
“That day, I’m not going to lie, I almost had a mental breakdown,” Beatriz said. “I was waiting on the phone, my kids were driving me crazy, they were screaming, they needed my attention.”
“I was freaking out,” she continued. “I bank on that cash assistance to help me with diapers, wipes—anything that my kids need—because my income is just not enough.”
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“If you get cash assistance, you are caught up in really significant delays, in a way that you would not be if you were only receiving SNAP,” said...
Joshua Goldfein of The Legal Aid Society, who is currently representing the Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. in negotiations over the city’s unique right to shelter, described the waivers as “appropriately cautious.”
“Our primary concern is to ensure the health and safety of our clients,” he said. “We appreciate that the state is taking an appropriately cautious and limited approach to the city’s requests, and we will continue to monitor to see how the city implements these measures.”
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New York State has agreed to waive certain shelter requirements in instances where no alternative is available—specifically for adult migrants in...
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Applications are now open for our bilingual CLARIFY program -- a paid journalism internship for New York City high school students that are proficient in both English and Spanish, and currently in 11th or 12th grades or their first year of college. Interns will be given a $1,000 stipend and trained in reporting and news writing, including research, interviewing, investigative techniques, story structure and more. They’ll work closely with City Limits’ reporters on locally focused news stories about important NYC issues, with the goal of getting those stories published in City Limits’ Spanish-language news initiative, Una Ciudad Sin Limites. The deadline to apply is Oct 2. Learn more: bit.ly/3BZ0oYL
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Applications are now open for our bilingual CLARIFY program -- a paid journalism internship for New York City high school students that are proficient in both English and Spanish, and currently in 11th or 12th grades or their first year of college. Interns will be given a $1,000 stipend and trained in reporting and news writing, including research, interviewing, investigative techniques, story structure and more. They’ll work closely with City Limits’ reporters on locally focused news stories about important NYC issues, with the goal of getting those stories published in City Limits’ Spanish-language news initiative, Una Ciudad Sin Limites. The deadline to apply is Oct 2. Learn more: bit.ly/3BZ0oYL
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Applications are now open for our bilingual CLARIFY program -- a paid journalism internship for New York City high school students that are proficient in both English and Spanish, and currently in 11th or 12th grades or their first year of college. Interns will be given a $1,000 stipend and trained in reporting and news writing, including research, interviewing, investigative techniques, story structure and more. They’ll work closely with City Limits’ reporters on locally focused news stories about important NYC issues, with the goal of getting those stories published in City Limits’ Spanish-language news initiative, Una Ciudad Sin Limites. The deadline to apply is Oct 2. Learn more: bit.ly/3BZ0oYL
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Applications are now open for our bilingual CLARIFY program -- a paid journalism internship for New York City high school students that are proficient in both English and Spanish, and currently in 11th or 12th grades or their first year of college. Interns will be given a $1,000 stipend and trained in reporting and news writing, including research, interviewing, investigative techniques, story structure and more. They’ll work closely with City Limits’ reporters on locally focused news stories about important NYC issues, with the goal of getting those stories published in City Limits’ Spanish-language news initiative, Una Ciudad Sin Limites. The deadline to apply is Oct 2. Learn more: bit.ly/3BZ0oYL
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After 14 months, Johanna Garcia finally found an apartment for her and her children—but the journey wasn’t easy, and the average length of stay in homeless shelters for New York City families like hers is only getting longer. Families with children spent an average of 534 days, or nearly a year and a half, in Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelters during the 2022 fiscal year that ended in June, new data shows. Read more: https://bit.ly/3LsWFpz
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Our inaugural issue, published in 1976, launched in the midst of New York City’s fiscal crisis, and was created to foster “more communication within and among people and organizations in the movement to save and improve housing,” according to a note from the editors at the time. While much has changed since, New York City is still facing many of the same challenges — in affordable housing and a looming fiscal crisis. Help us build a more equitable city. Make a donation of $200+ by September 30, and you’ll receive our limited-edition book: 45 Stories, 45 Years: City Limits’ History of Covering NYC, offering a collection of historical news and photos of our city coverage since 1976. bit.ly/3AcjWXt
Our inaugural issue, published in 1976, launched in the midst of New York City’s fiscal crisis, and was created to foster “more communication within and among people and organizations in the movement to save and improve housing,” according to a note from the editors at the time. While much has changed since, New York City is still facing many of the same challenges — in affordable housing and a looming fiscal crisis. Help us build a more equitable city. Make a donation of $200+ by September 30, and you’ll receive our limited-edition book: 45 Stories, 45 Years: City Limits’ History of Covering NYC, offering a collection of historical news and photos of our city coverage since 1976. bit.ly/3AcjWXt
Our inaugural issue, published in 1976, launched in the midst of New York City’s fiscal crisis, and was created to foster “more communication within and among people and organizations in the movement to save and improve housing,” according to a note from the editors at the time. While much has changed since, New York City is still facing many of the same challenges — in affordable housing and a looming fiscal crisis. Help us build a more equitable city. Make a donation of $200+ by September 30, and you’ll receive our limited-edition book: 45 Stories, 45 Years: City Limits’ History of Covering NYC, offering a collection of historical news and photos of our city coverage since 1976. bit.ly/3AcjWXt
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