News from the past week:
Indigenous immigrants demand adult education programs (Diario de Mexico via Voices That Must Be Heard)
Condos, Condos Everywhere (The Wonkster)
At Bronx River, an Invitation to Text the Fish (Tremont Tribune)
A Room and Not Bored: One Path out of Shelter (City Limits)
Enviromedia Mobile Unveils at Borough Hall (GreenBeat Brooklyn)
Bloomberg Announces Green Jobs (Sustainable [...]
News from the past week:
Arts Education and Graduation Rates (New York Times)
Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It (New York Times)
Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (City Room)
Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood Park (Hunts Point Express)
Green Energy Alternatives: The Theme Park — It’s Happening, on Ward’s Island (gbNYC)
Hot for farmer! (New [...]
In the news recently:
To Help the Bronx, They Circled Manhattan by Boat (City Room)
Longer Lines at Food Banks in the Bronx (City Room)
City Admits Lapse in Data Release (City Room)
Lessons from a Large Family (New York Times)
Neighborhood Voices: A friend is gunned down (Hunts Point Express)
Young Local Farmers (Ditmas Park Blog via Brooklyn Green Team)
Proposed: [...]
News from the past week:
A Brooklyn of Wealth and Needs Gets a Major Charity All Its Own (New York Times)
Walking the Dog to Draw Attention to a Cause (City Room)
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered (City Limits)
Cool Roofs for the City and the Country (New York Future Initiative)
Interview with Aaron Naparstek: Why ride a bike in [...]
News from the past week:
“Any place can become a park” — thoughts from Adrian Benepe (Urban Omnibus)
More Schools Encourage Commuting by Bike (City Room)
Pushing for paid leave when kids get sick (EDLP via Voices That Must Be Heard)
First 9/11 lesson plan to be tested in New York, six states (Daily Challenge via Voices That Must [...]
News from the past week:
Sesame Street comes to Hunts Point (Hunts Point Express)
Without a Job, but Working the Campaign Trail (New York Times)
Law Bans Use of ‘Oriental’ in State Documents (City Room)
The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue (Urban Omnibus)
No Impact Man, Brooklyn Premiere (Brooklyn Based)
The World’s Religions Meet in the Hospital (City Limits)
News from the past week:
Nonprofits’ Outlook After a Year of Living Dangerously (City Limits)
Youth Speaking Out Through Spoken Word (Norwood News)
Guerrilla gardeners stake out Longwood park (Hunts Point Express)
A U.S. Open Love Match With the Environment (City Room)
Help open the Big Apple (Civic Hacker)
LOT-EK to Build Pier 57 Made of Shipping Containers! (Inhabitat via Freshkills [...]
News from the past week:
Kids get free ‘Back to School’ supplies (Queens Courier)
59 Ways to Make the City More Friendly for Elderly (City Room)
Sanitation Dept. Unveils Hybrid Garbage Trucks (City Room)
Q&A with Bronx activist Vicente “Panama” Alba (Bronx Latino)
Advocates protest ICE operations in NYC jails (Beyond Borders)
Manhattan nonprofit looks to bring jobs to Mott Haven [...]
Recent news:
Brooklyn Farm in Trouble (City Farmer News)
Protest Over Controversial Art Piece Fizzles (Bronx News Network)
A Flatbush Block Is Named Brooklyn’s Greenest (City Room)
At Summer Streets, Experiments in Bike Sharing (City Room)
At Least One Retailer Is Expanding in This Economy (City Room)
Technology in parks roundup (Freshkills Park Blog)
Bloomberg Tests Free-Transit Waters (Streetsblog)
Zipcar Takes the Anti-Urban [...]
Recent news items:
Judge Rules Against Applebee’s Lease in Harlem Building (City Room)
Postal Service Unveils Large ‘Green’ Roof (City Room)
Whose South Bronx Greenway is it anyway? (Mott Haven Herald)
Troubling Findings in NYC Schools (Bank on It)
Sikh Coalition grades New York City Department of Education on school bullying (South Asian Times via Voices That Must Be Heard)
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