City Limits

Dear City Limits friends,

We're excited to share highlights from the second quarter of 2023 with you, our generous community of City Limits members and supporters. Thank you for supporting our important local independent journalism that helps to make New York a more equitable city.

We welcome Stephen Fee as the newest board member. Fee is VP of Communications at Enterprise Community Partners. He is a communications leader eager to help us amplify our work.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Fran Reilly as Co-Executive Director alongside Marjorie W. Martay, leading City Limits into the future during these challenging times for local news, and at a critical juncture for advancing housing equity in New York City.

We are thrilled to have Mary Cunningham join us this summer as our climate reporting intern. Check out her recent articles here.

Vacant NYCHA Units Continue to Increase, With Transfers Complicated by PACT
NYCHA’s target time is 30 days for apartment turnover. But as of April, it took the housing authority an average of 410 days to re-occupy a vacant apartment, up significantly from the start of the year and more than double what it took a year ago...

1 in 5 Tenants at NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses Paid Miscalculated Rent: Audit
"If you charge someone less than what they’re supposed to be paying they might not shout about it quite as loudly," said Comptroller Brad Lander, whose office conducted the review of rent at Red Hook Houses...

Opinion: Teachers’ Health Plan Debate Speaks to Larger Problems with UFT Leadership
"Those of us teaching the children of New York City do the work. Not only are we not getting the support we need, but we have leadership that actively works against our interests. This has to change."...

Thanks to the generous support of our amazing partners, we are embarking on several new initiatives to further our mission of using investigative journalism through the prism of New York City to identify urban problems, examine their causes, explore solutions, and equip communities to take action. Here’s a roundup of recent grants from funding partners:

	•		We’re thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a two-year grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to help us delve deeper into the effects of climate change on the most vulnerable communities in New York City.

	•		We’re grateful to the Altman Foundation for their support in helping us to launch an expanded data initiative. By leveraging data-driven insights, we will be able to uncover new perspectives, identify trends, and advocate for evidence-based solutions.

	•		We’re pleased to share that the Lily Auchincloss Foundation has provided us with a grant to support our general operations. Their generosity will enable us to continue our day-to-day activities and maintain the high quality of our reporting.

	•		We’re excited to announce that we received a two-year grant from The Scherman Foundation for general operating expenses. This funding will help us sustain and expand our programs, allowing us to reach more people and make a lasting difference.

	•		We're thankful to the Harman Foundation and the Dow Jones News Fund for their support of this summer’s CLARIFY program.

	We're actively seeking more funding for our bilingual news project, Una Ciudad sin Límites in order to expand our coverage to include a focus on the pressing issues of housing and homelessness amidst the asylum seekers crisis.

	For future data and visualization projects, we are seeking to hire freelancers adept at Excel, coding, and building interactives to help us turn our data reporting into compelling visualizations. If you or someone you know have these skills, please contact us at [email protected].

	City Limits’ Reporting Honored by Silurians Press Club City Limits received Merit Awards in two categories, investigative and environmental journalism, for reporting that revealed substandard conditions and other problems in the city’s supportive housing network, and another story that mapped neighborhoods with the most persistent heat and hot water complaints among tenants.

	City Limits’ 2022 Gala Honoree Shaun Donovan has been named Enterprise Community Partners Chief Executive Officer and President.

We’re excited to be partnering with the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY, who will be hosting the summer session at their building in midtown. We are also partnering with Press Pass NYC on two-week workshops. Check out our CLARIFY site to learn more!

Reserve your tables and tickets today for our 47th Annual Gala & Hall of Fame Induction Celebration to support and celebrate our 47-year legacy of local NYC housing news.

October 26, 2023 @ 6:30 to 9:30pm
Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY

Honorees include:

	Grace Bonilla President & CEO of United Way of New York City

	Neill Coleman Principal of Mission Magnified & former ED of Trinity Church Philanthropies

	David Jones President & CEO of Community Service Society

	Brian Lehrer Host, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show

Adi Talwar,
photographer

Gabriel Gatehouse’s gripping BBC podcast series The Coming Storm explores what led to the Capitol Insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

Photo credit: Seema Kohli Talwar

We are incredibly grateful for the support of our Board and Advisory Members:

Martha Nelson, Andrew Breslau, Mark Edmiston, Neill Coleman, Stephen Fee, Erica González Martínez, Lynda Hamilton, David R. Jones, Edward Lewis, Erik Spooner, Meg Louis, Michael Moskowitz, Lisette Nieves.

Warmly,
Marjorie W. Martay & Fran Reilly

Co-Executive Directors, City Limits