Many Residents Now Can Shape How Money is Spent, But Will They?
More New Yorkers than ever before will take part in participatory budgeting this year. Can organizers engage enough residents in a process that relies on their engagement to succeed?
Bronx Housing Boom Could Crowd Classrooms
Community activists and parents call on Department of Education for help
South Bronx Residents Are Not Sold on Plans for Historic Post Office
The sale of the Bronx General Post Office has split local opinion as gentrification looms.
Struggling in the City
Reporters for NYCity Lens visited sites of struggle - a food pantry in Harlem, a park in Washington Heights, a job center in the Bronx, and others - to meet New Yorkers living through these difficult realities. New York City's poverty rate has stayed at 21.4 percent for 2011 and 2012, according to the latest report from the Center of Economic Opportunity of New York City, an office that coordinates anti-poverty programs with city and federal agencies. Chronic inequality remains the topic of the moment, in the nation and in the city. Read more here
Lens on New Yorkers
NY City Lens profiles New Yorkers, showcasing all their diversity.
Late Summer Scene: Near Yankee Stadium
All you need in late August is a couple of bicycles and a place to race them.
Late Summer Scene: On the Street in Mott Haven
Gloria watches the scene from her wheelchair and talks to—everyone!
Knocked Out by Sandy
A 61-year-old grandmother fights to re-build a family nest after Sandy flooded her Far Rockaway home
The Sweet Smell of the Bronx
The only fragrance manufacturer in the five boroughs makes scents for big-name designers
Video: The Boxing Girl
An 11-year old girl who really packs a punch.
Video: A Ride On The Relief Bus
A repurposed school bus roams the streets of New York giving out soup, hot chocolate and hope.
Change for the Greener for a Few Bronx Sixth-Graders
For years, this southwest Bronx neighborhood has outsourced its middle schoolers to classrooms outside the hilly enclave rising up to the west of the Grand Concourse. After eight years of petitions to the Department of Education for a school of their own, this year a few local parents got the chance to send their kids to nearby Highbridge, the city's first LEED-certified green school.