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Data Shows Lackluster Results for City Hiring Program

Ban of Repeat Offenders from Subway ‘Hugely Problematic,’ Advocates Say

In Amazon’s Wake Huge Sunnyside Yards Master Plan Takes Shape

The Bushwick Project:

The City Limits editorial team is spending the month of July focusing exclusively on Bushwick in light of the neighborhood’s particular place as a locus of change and a proposed rezoning. Read more below.

One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up

Bushwick +10: A Changing Neighborhood Faces a Tighter Housing Crunch

Data Shows Lackluster Results for City Hiring Program

HireNYC gets a lot of hype from the de Blasio administration, but four years in, 80 percent of applications through the initiative are listed as ‘pending.’

Ban of Repeat Offenders from Subway ‘Hugely Problematic,’ Advocates Say

Restricting formerly incarcerated people from the most affordable mode of transportation can impede their access to jobs, school, medical and mental health services—the very things experts say are beneficial to avoiding another offense.
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In Amazon’s Wake, Huge Sunnyside Yards Master Plan Takes Shape

Not far from the site where Amazon would have established its New York HQ2, city planners and community members have been talking—thoughtfully, by most accounts—about a development project that could span decades and reshape western Queens.

You Asked, We Answered: Prostitution Rules, MTA Ridership and School Diversity

What rules do the proponents for legalizing prostitution have in mind? How can I get racial demographics for Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island School Districts?

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The Bushwick Project:

Over the next four weeks, City Limits’ reporting staff will spend the bulk of its time in Bushwick. We're spotlighting the neighborhood in light of the changes its experienced and the upcoming rezoning planned for it.

Bushwick is a really important neighborhood. It contains the geographic center of the city and it has had a dramatic history. It's at the crossroads of affordable Brooklyn, gentrifying Brooklyn and industrial Brooklyn. It's a large neighborhood with distinct sections. It has some of the city's rising political stars. It contains one of the city's three Superfund sites.

City Limits will be tabling at least three hours a week in Maria Hernandez Park to hear comments, take complaints, answer questions and soak up ideas for what we should report about.

If you have a story idea or a comment about the neighborhood or our coverage, find our reporters in Maria Hernandez Park or let us know.

If you want to learn more about the rezoning, you can also text “Rezoning” to 646 916-3930.

Read more about The Bushwick Project

One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up

There are some similarities between the community and city rezoning proposals but the differences are important to Bushwick community members who say they have waited for decades for serious public investments in their neighborhood.
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Bushwick +10: A Changing Neighborhood Faces a Tighter Housing Crunch

With a major rezoning looming for Bushwick, it’s time for another deep look. So, over the next four weeks, City Limits’ reporting staff will spend the bulk of its time in Bushwick, looking for stories, interviewing people and distributing information.
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See What Bushwick's Foreign-Born Children Think About Trump's Border Wall.

Children at a Bushwick after-school program prepared and performed works of art reflecting their feelings about U.S. immigration policy.

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