City Limits (New York magazine)

US nonprofit news organization

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For the London magazine of the same name, see City Limits (magazine).

City Limits

Editor| Jarrett Murphy
Categories| non-profit journalism, investigative journalism
Publisher| Fran Reilly
Founder| Robert Schur, Ron Shiffman, Philip St. Georges
Founded| 1976
Final issue| 2012 (print)
Based in| New York City
Website| www.citylimits.org
ISSN| 0199-0330

City Limits is a nonprofit news organization based in New York City. Since 1976, City Limits has published in-depth reporting on civic issues affecting the city's low- and moderate-income communities. Focused on civic issues related to housing, education, criminal justice, the environment, economic and government policy, City Limits publishes in-depth news and analysis daily.

## History

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City Limits was founded in February 1976[1] as a newsletter and resource for advocates in New York City's housing rehabilitation movement. The publication would expand to become an investigative monthly magazine that covered other major policy issues over the next three decades, establishing the Center for an Urban Future in 1996 as a research institution dedicated to exploring policy solutions that were featured in City Limits' reportage.

In 2009, City Limits was acquired by the Community Service Society of New York and re-launched as a single-issue bi-monthly magazine and weekly news website. The publication published a monthly printed magazine for many years and became an all-digital operation in 2012. At that point, it launched the online news website Brooklyn Bureau with support from the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and also acquired the Bronx News Network to create the Bronx Bureau.[2][3] City Limits became an independent nonprofit in 2014.[4]

## Recognition

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Since 2009, City Limits received several journalism awards for its investigations, including two Sigma Delta Chi Awards for the September 2010 report, "Risky Play: Was New York City's Shift to Artificial Grass a $300 Million Mistake", and the May 2011 investigation, "Behind Bars: Male Guards, Female Inmates and Sexual Abuse in New York State Prisons".[5]

City Limits has been recognized for its reporting by the Park Center for Independent Media, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Journalism Center on Children & Families, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists' Association, the National Education Writers' Association, the National Council on Crime & Delinquency, and the New York Community Media Alliance.[citation needed]

In October 2010, City Limits was recognized by the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a "model for New York City and the rest of the nation."[citation needed]

City Limits was cited as an exemplary model by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation[citation needed] and the United States White House.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ Chris Steins (June 29, 2010). "Do You Read These Planning Magazines?". Planetizen. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
2. ^ "City Limits magazine is going all-digital, Wilson Dizard". New York Post. September 1, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
3. ^ (22 November 2011). Knight-Backed Local News Site Brooklyn Bureau Launches, Paid Content
4. ^ "City Limits is an Independent Nonprofit ... Again". City Limits. July 2, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
5. ^ Rochester, Lauren. "Announcing Winners of the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Journalism". Retrieved March 11, 2013.

## External links

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* Official website

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Housing rights in New York

Government
agencies|

* NYC Department of Buildings
* NYC Department of Homeless Services
* NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
* NYC Housing Authority
* NYC Housing Authority Police Department
* NYC Loft Board
* NYPD Housing Bureau
* New York State Legislature

Legislation|

| New York
State|

* Rent regulation in New York
* Callahan v. Carey
* Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019
* Mitchell–Lama Housing Program
* New York State Tenement House Act (Old Law Tenement, New Law Tenement)

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New York
City|

* 421-a tax exemption
* 1982 Loft Law
* 2009 Loft Law Amendment
* Article 7A (New York City housing code)
* Local Law 45 of 1976
* Local Law 97 of 2019
* Self-Certification (New York City Department of Buildings)
* Uniform Land Use Review Procedure

Non-/
governmental
organizations|

* Ali Forney Center
* Asian Americans for Equality
* Association for a Better New York
* Breaking Ground
* The Bowery Mission
* Citizens Housing and Planning Council
* Crown Heights Tenant Union
* Homes for the Homeless
* Housing Works
* Metropolitan Council on Housing
* Movement for Justice in el Barrio
* Open New York
* Palladia (social services organization)
* Picture the Homeless
* Real Estate Board of New York
* Rent Is Too Damn High Party
* Sanctuary for Families
* Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Squatting and
homesteading|

* 519 East 11th Street
* ABC No Rio
* C-Squat
* Charas/El Bohio
* Dos Blockos
* Freedom Tunnel
* Gowanus Batcave
* Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
* Operation Move-In
* Umbrella House

Housing rights
activists|

* Frances Goldin
* Florence M. Rice
* Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
* Jesse Gray
* Joseph DeFilippis
* Mitch Snyder
* Pauline Newman
* Rosanne Haggerty
* Stanley M. Isaacs

Media|

* City Limits
* Dark Days (film)
* How the Other Half Lives
* Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992–2000
* One-Third of a Nation
* Project Lives
* Rent (musical)
* The City We Became

Events|

* 1839-1845 Anti-Rent War
* 1904 New York City Rent Strike
* 1907 New York City Rent Strike
* 1918-20 New York City rent strikes

See also|

* Homelessness in New York
* Involuntary hospitalization of Joyce Brown
* New York City housing shortage

Authority control databases |

* VIAF

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