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Stories to Start Your Week

What Would It Take to Move Street Homeless New Yorkers into Housing?
A small subset of New York City residents who cannot afford permanent housing have opted to stay in public spaces rather than begin a potentially years-long wait in a series of homeless shelters with the goal of one day, hopefully, accessing an apartment.

NYC Primary Rewind: Who Voted, Where
In New York City, 446,432 Democrats and 50,337 Republican cast ballots for governor on Tuesday—a sleepy election day during a redistricting year that’ll ask voters to return to the polls in August for a second primary.

Drug Overdoses Continue to Rise Inside NYC Homeless Shelters
The number of drug overdoses inside Department of Homeless Services shelters reached new heights in the second half of 2021, though staff and clients managed to reverse more than 90 percent of the overdoses.

Uneven Distribution of Language Interpreters on Slow NYC Primary Day
Spanish translators were missing at two Queens polling places that City Limits visited Tuesday morning, while interpreters for other languages said they had interacted with very few voters.

“I would also say there’s a lot of people who do agree with a lot of the things that I did, and I hear it out on the streets from voters.”

—Former Mayor Bill de Blasio, now one of a half-dozen candidates running for Congress' 10th District in Brooklyn & Manhattan

Una Ciudad Sin Límites
City Limits en español

PODCAST: ¿Qué se sabe de la muerte de inmigrantes en un camión en San Antonio?
53 muertos hasta el momento deja el hallazgo de un camión con inmigrantes en San Antonio, Texas. Lo ocurrido ha sido catalogada por las autoridades como la mayor tragedia migratoria de los últimos años.

City Views

Opinions and Analysis on Policy and Politics

Opinion: Summer is a Chance to Reinvest in NYC Students
“It’s known as the summer slide, or summer setback. That period of just over two months when our children are out of school, when learning diminishes—and often disproportionately impacts youth from historically disadvantaged groups. This summer is a chance to reverse that trend.”
—Carmen Fariña, former New York City Schools chancellor

Opinion: Let the J-51 Property Tax Abatement Die, Too
“The governor and New York State Legislature should begin a process of discarding all property tax abatements that primarily serve the interests of landlords and developers (not tenants), and end the patchwork of other taxes required to make up the subsequent lost revenue from them.”
—Marty Rowland, affordable housing advocate