City Limits articles from November 2005

City Limits archives from November 2005

Publisher's note.
November 1, 2005... TRANSITIONS ARE TRICKY. Smooth transitions sometimes come about by chance, but more often reflect a mountain of thought and preparation. Rough transitions come about even when you've worked hard to be ready, when chance trumps all preparation....

Vision for voting.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... I was extremely disappointed by the misinformation and patronizing title in Carolina Gonzalez's article, "Voring by Moxie" [September/October 2005]. Ms. Gonzalez is simply wrong about the legislative process and the non-citizen voting...

Suggestive remarks.(Suggestion book )
November 1, 2005... "CUSHIONED PAVEMENT" "SEX FOR ALL OVER 70" "ABOLISH MONEY" These and hundreds of other intriguing recommendations are collected in a new book entitled Suggestion, a compilation of notes scrawled by New Yorkers as part of a...

Major win for Majora.(BRIEFS)
November 1, 2005... Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, was named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards $500,000 each to 25 grantees nationwide each year for their "creativity, originality, and...

Greening the apple.(City Council legislation for green building standards)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... New York City government is rarely hailed as a model of efficiency, but now at least its buildings will be. In September, the City Council passed legislation that sets green building standards for hundreds of city-owned or -funded...

Art of survival: a new program reaches out to men who have been raped.(FRONTLINES)
November 1, 2005... FIVE YEARS AGO, as Rommell Washington was leading a group therapy session for Lower East Side adults with HIV/AIDS, a young man who had been attending the program for four months hurried over with a terrified expression on his face and, in a...

Damn Yankees: community groups oppose renovation plan.(FRONTLINES)
November 1, 2005... AS THE NEW YORK YANKEES move forward with plans to break ground on a new state-of-the-art stadium in May, environmental advocates and neighborhood residents are raising a host of concerns. Many say the new stadium, to be built adjacent to the...

The Partnership for the Homeless.(INS AND OUTS)
November 1, 2005... Beverly Cheuvront, former director of communications at The Partnership for the Homeless, has moved to Habitat for Humanity-NYC to oversee its communications department. She will promote Habitat's expanding policy/advocacy department, focusing...

City Harvest.(Sally Hernandez Pinero appointed as executive director)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... City Harvest, which provides food for over 800 community soup kitchens and food pantries, welcomes a new executive director, Sally Hernandez Pinero, deputy mayor under David Dinkins. The Bronx-born Hernandez Pinero also served as deputy borough...

New York Immigration Coalition.(INS AND OUTS)
November 1, 2005... Margie McHugh has resigned from her position as executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, where she worked for 15 years. McHugh was a 2001 recipient of the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award for her advocacy...

Lakeside Family and Children's Services.(Harvey Newman appointed as President)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... In August, Harvey Newman became president and CEO of Lakeside Family and Children's Services, a Spring Valley, NY, residential program that provides respite, vocational instruction, medical care, foster care and adoption services for...

20 big ideas for our next mayor: want to build a better city? City Limits has a few suggestions.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2005... By the time you read this, New York will have crowned its next mayor. Politics aside, whomever is elected will face some perennial challenges: balancing the budget while promoting social welfare; encouraging development that doesn't wreck...

The new safety net? Today, most antipoverty efforts are aimed at boosting low wages, not offering a check. For many families struggling to make a living, it's still a high-wire act with many dangers.
November 1, 2005... Early this April, before the snow had completely disappeared, Milagros Espinal undertook an annual ritual, rustling her three children out of her Bronx apartment for a 15-minute jaunt over the Tri-Borough Bridge. Upon reaching Bayside, Queens,...

The mighty migrant dollar: the dollars that Mexican immigrants send home are being matched by the Mexican government, fueling a wave of development in the towns they left behind.
November 1, 2005... The road to Tonahuixtla in the southern Mexican state of Puebla begins as smooth pavement in the city of Acatlan (pop. 35,000), but as it winds into Tonahuixtla--where less than 1,000 people live--it becomes a bumpy dirt path, just like the...

Q & A: where should the vendors from the Bronx Terminal Market go? Developer Irwin Cohen, the force behind Chelsea Market's success, says the answer is simple: a new Bronx "destination" market, specializing in food.(Interview)
November 1, 2005... MORE THAN 20 food merchants will be displaced under new plans to redevelop the Bronx Terminal Market into a shopping mall. But Irwin Cohen, a real estate developer who has had great success with the Chelsea Market, and other properties built...

Saying, not showing: a righteous indictment of post-9/11 immigrant policies says there's a complicated tale to be told, but it doesn't deliver the goods.(CITYLIT)
November 1, 2005... LIKE CARDBOARD CUTOUTS: That's how author Tram Nguyen describes the portrayal of immigrants since 9/11--particularly when they're from Islamic countries or if they're here without papers. In this two-dimensional schema, xenophobes warn of a...