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New Year. New Site. Same Mission: 

Over its nearly 44 years, City Limits has taken many forms—magazine, fax weekly, email newsletter, website, print bulletin, podcast. Visit our homepage today and you'll see our latest look: a newly designed website intended to make it easier for readers to navigate our many offerings and to engage with us in discussing how to get to the kind of city we all deserve.

What hasn't changed over those four-plus decades is City Limits' mission, which is 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. City Limits exists to inform democracy. Readers like you are our partners in that work.

The website is really important, but the stories are what matters most. Take a minute today to cruise around our snazzy new site. Then take another to tell me what stories you want to see there.

- Jarrett Murphy, executive editor
 


The latest from City Limits: 

 

What Climate Risks Mean for NYC's Food Supply
A changing climate could mean challenges for the global food supply. It could also bring storms that impact major distribution centers, or your corner supermarket. Read more.

Key City Housing Policies at Stake This Year in Courthouses, Campaign and Council
The year that ended Tuesday night generated a raft of headlines concerning how New York City treats its scarcest resource — land — in significant ways. Some of those storylines will continue into 2020, while other new topics of concern are likely to emerge. Read more.

In 2020, Not All Politics is Going to Be Local. But a Lot of It Will Be.
Max & Murphy quiz three top political journalists on what they think looms ahead for the mayor, the Council, the governor and legislature—and the public they all serve. Read more.

A Walk With Mayor de Blasio's Street Homelessness Outreach Workers
'It’s just a work in progress,' says one outreach worker. 'It is not something that is going to happen overnight or in a week’s time.' Read more.

From Subway Crime to School Lunch: Our 19 Best Investigations of 2019
Hospital suicides and Amazon promises. Coastal resiliency and Vision Zero. Here are the highlights of City Limits' 2019 investigative work. Read more.

 

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Out of the 2 million votes cast by New York City voters in the 2018 gubernatorial election, there were 4,640 write-in votes. The top 10 recipients were:
  1. Cynthia Nixon (1,604)
  2. Zephyr Teachout (136)
  3. Michael Bloomberg (108)
  4. Hillary Clinton (40)
  5. Preet Bharara (39)
  6. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (21)
  7. Matt Negrin (18)
  8. Barack Obama (15)
  9. Jumaane Williams (11)
  10. Bernie Sanders (10)
Job Board

WIN (Women in Need)
Housing Coordinator - Transitional Housing

The Housing Services Coordinator is responsible for supporting the permanent housing search of the families living in the shelter by coordinating all housing services activities which will lead to the successful placement of families in accordance to WIN’s and other agency contractual requirements.

Read more and apply

WIN (Women in Need)
Program Director - Transitional Housing

The Program Director is responsible for the day-to-day management of a transitional family residence serving families with children. The Program Director will ensure that the residence operates in accordance with the guidelines identified by the NYS Office of Temporary Disability Assistance (OTDA), the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS), and Win.

Read more and apply

The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
Strategic Partnerships Manager

The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) is a community-led effort to build an equitable, sustainable, and democratic local economy that creates wealth and ownership for low-income people of color—what we call economic democracy. One of our core strategies is building a network of Bronx institutions and leaders that share our vision and values.

We are looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to lead our effort to cultivate and maintain a network of institutional leaders committed to build shared wealth and opportunity for Bronx residents. Reporting to the Executive Director, and working closely with BCDI’s board of directors, the Strategic Partnerships Manager will utilize exceptional relationship building and project management skills to build and support the network of labor, community-based organizations, anchor institutions, and others that BCDI is building including the development of the Bronx Anchor Council.

Read more and apply

Brooklyn Movement Center
Housing and Sustainability Organizer

"We’re looking for a dynamic organizer who can lead campaigns to resist displacement and build resilience among vulnerable, long-term Central Brooklynites residents. A competitive candidate is someone who is a fearless recruiter and has strong people and communication skills, including using digital organizing tools."

Read more and apply

Brooklyn Movement Center/Central Brooklyn Food Coop
Food Sovereignty Organizer

We are the Central Brooklyn Food Coop (CBFC) an emerging consumer-owned, Black-led, grocery store set to open in 2020. CBFC envisions a future where Black residents take control of their local food system to provide healthy, affordable and sustainable food for Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and the surrounding communities. CBFC is incubated by the Brooklyn Movement Center, a multi-issue, social justice, community organizing group.

We’re looking for a dynamic community organizer who will take the CBFC from its current organizing phase to the opening of its retail storefront by inspiring public excitement in CBFC and dramatically expanding the CBFC membership. A competitive candidate is someone who is a fearless recruiter and has strong people and communication skills, including the effective use of digital organizing tools.

Read more and apply

Community Service Society of New York
Community Organizer

CSS seeks a Community Organizer to help advance CSS’s statewide, coalition-based Clean Slate New York campaign for criminal records expungement. Our goal for the campaign, led by CSS and partner organization Legal Action Center and involving anchor groups statewide, is to get automatic criminal records expungement legislation passed in New York State this legislative session. The Community Organizer will work directly with CSS Legal Department’s Senior Community Organizer and other key staff to move this campaign forward, engaging in coalition-based organizing and advocacy efforts both in New York City and across the state.

Read more and apply
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