Gotham Gazette is published each weekday by the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, the non-profit research and education affiliate of a good-government group that dates back to 1897. Gotham Gazette was created through a grant from the Charles Revson Foundation and receives support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Independence Community Foundation, Surdna Foundation, the Altman Foundation, the New York Times Foundation and readers like you. (Please consider making a tax deductible contribution).
It functions as four publications in one -- a daily digest of news about New York City; a news operation in itself; a policy magazine; and a reference tool for students and serious researchers alike.
Gotham Gazette as a whole attempts to explain all the most important issues facing New York and New Yorkers. But we also have subsites with more specific focus. City Government (formerly Searchlight) is a guide to New York City government and politics. Immigrants (also called The Citizen) is a selection of articles from New York's immigrant/ethnic press, translated into English from some three dozen languages. Our Community Gazettes (also called Community) are a pioneering effort at covering every community in the city, with your help. This year, we also offer Eye on Albany, which looks at efforts to reform state government, and also continues a tradition we began in 2001, a look at this year's races for political office.
Features developed by Craig for Gotham Gazette include:
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Click Here for Grafitti Feature | From Subways to Streets: The Battle Over Graffiti Still Rages in New York
While some New Yorkers look at graffiti nostalgically as an art movement from a bygone era, and others as an old war long since won, plenty of New Yorkers say it is a problem that has not gone away; they fear it is getting worse.
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Click Here for Super Clubs Feature | NightClub Act II: When he was New York City's special narcotics prosecutor, Robert Silbering helped bring down high-profile nightclub impresario Peter Gatien, sending him to jail and shuttering his Manhattan club, Limelight - just the most notorious of dozens of clubs, bars and lounges that were fined, padlocked, shut down, or simply went out of business because
of the crackdown, mostly because of illegal drugs. Now, Limelight is back, and so is Silbering, though Limelight is not Limelight anymore -- and neither, in a sense, is Silbering.
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A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
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