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** Editor’s Note: A Second Language, A New Lens
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As part of our larger, ongoing effort to amplify all the city’s voices, we introduce City Limits en Español.
City Limits has over the past three years been translating modest amounts of copy into Spanish, but this new effort represents something different—a step toward a completely bilingual City Limits, where the two languages commingle just as they do on many city blocks.
This will be reporting from a Latino perspective in the Spanish language, with a second life en Ingles.
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** What Aging Means for Immigrant New Yorkers
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By the year 2020, immigrants will form the majority of the elderly population in New York City, with Dominicans, Mexicans and Chinese as the fastest-growing groups.
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** Brownsville Official on What Her Community Needs After a Mass Shooting
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In the wake of a shooting that left one person dead and triggered calls for NYPD policy changes, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel says stronger federal gun laws and more local funding for youth intervention programs are what’s really needed.
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** Pol: Blackouts, Flooding and Subway Woes Show Need for Revamped Planning
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Brooklyn Councilmember Brad Ladner says this year’s Charter Revision Commission missed a chance to fix deep flaws in the way New York does land-use planning.
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Opinion
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** To Save the Climate, NYC Neighborhoods Will Have to Accept Density
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‘The climate emergency demands densification. The Left must put forward a vision for maximizing density as part of its commitment to social justice.’
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** Four MTA Mistakes No One Talks About
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It’s widely recognized that the MTA needs big ideas and comprehensive improvements. But sometimes it’s the little things that make a commute pleasant or purgatorial.
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** A Film About Bushwick Has a Simple Message—’See Us’
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‘How do you reconcile 30 years of change within the Bushwick community? How do you make sense of development and the subsequent displacement that occurs?’
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** Case Manager
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West Harlem Group Associates
West Harlem Group Assistance, Inc., a community based development corporation, was established more than 30 years ago to revitalize the under-invested West and Central Harlem communities - riddled with dilapidated and abandoned buildings.
We are seeking a strong Case Manager to identify and implement social services for homeless families, to ensure successful transition into permanent housing as soon as possible. Reports to the Director of Social Services.
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