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LIEN ON ME
Since 1999, the city’s “third party transfer” program has prevailed in a difficult task: Taking run down, tax-delinquent apartment buildings and conveying them to responsible owners. Usually, when...
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STATE BOND-DOGGLE: SMALL BUILDING SEEKS BIG SUBSIDY
Only on Manhattan’s Upper East Side would a one-bedroom apartment for a senior citizen cost $760,000 to build. That’s what the Related Capital Company, Arker Companies and the Metropolitan Council on...
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WATERFRONT WOES
The hearing room at the City Council was filled to capacity, and several hundred would-be attendees were stuck outside on the City Hall steps. Residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg turned out in...
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BATTERY PARK BONANZA: $130M FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
"Hallelujah!" exclaimed the man in the red ACORN t-shirt, with passion not normally heard at Mayor Bloomberg’s staid City Hall press conferences. But this was a special occasion. Bloomberg and...
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COZY QUARTERS: ACORN AND RATNER SIGN HOUSING DEAL
“I’m getting ready to pay my debt, and here it is!” said Bertha Lewis and then turned to Mayor Bloomberg and kissed him squarely on the lips. The executive director of New York ACORN had done it...
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Street’s Life
Before million-dollar Bed-Stuy brownstones, before city-subsidized community gardens, mile-long street fairs, parks concerts and the very idea that U.S. cities were places to be celebrated instead of...
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STEALTH REPORT: HOUSING STUDY KEPT UNDER WRAPS
As Gifford Miller runs for mayor as a housing reformer and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum runs ads touting results, a pricey project they commissioned to address the city’s affordable housing crisis...
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JUVENILE ARRESTS SPIKE: NYPD HAULING IN MORE KIDS
The Department of Probation is reporting a dramatic spike in the arrest of young people over the last year—a 30 percent increase between January 2005 and January 2006. After declining from 1995...
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Four Decades of Dedication: City Limits’ Story
Brian Patrick O'DonohueTom Robbins and Annette Fuentes, City Limits' editing team in the early 1980s, in the magazine's offices. * * * Since its start 40 years ago this month, City Limits has published...
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Battle of the Brownfields
There’s a cul-de-sac in the middle of Bushwick. There are new streets, too. Lining them are well-appointed townhouses sold for bargain prices, to owners who have started to move in. Not bad for a...
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