The pop-up art show curated from a civil liberties perspective is about ‘29 million dreams deferred.’
Stephon Johnson
Johnson covers Manhattan for THE CITY. He joins THE CITY after 13 years at the New York Amsterdam News. His work has also appeared in The Athletic, Polygon, and Sports Illustrated, and he's collaborated with other outlets on projects. He's won several awards including the New York Association of Black Journalists Award for Community Affairs and the MillerCoors Messenger Award for Economic Empowerment.
Posted inJails
City Hits Pause on Demolition of Manhattan Detention Center After Outcry From Locals
Days after announcing it was moving forward right away on the razing downtown, the Adams administration decided to hold off for two weeks.
Posted inTenants
Chinatown Residents Rally for a Good Cause Eviction Law, and Against Ever Higher Rents
Protesters said that small landlords upset with their tenants should be directing their anger at their banks instead.
Posted inLegal Aid
Overwhelmed With Cases, Free Housing Lawyers Ask for Four Times the Funding
“We have nonprofits that are stretched too thin, and they are rejecting cases because they’re not getting the resources they need from the city,” said City Councilmember Shaun Abreu.
Posted inCUNY
City College Adjuncts Stage Grade-In to Protest Proposed Pay Cuts
Harlem’s public university seeks to shrink English teacher pay to close a $10M budget gap — and that’s before looming City Hall spending reductions.
Posted inLandlords, Manhattan, Rent Guidelines Board, Rent Stabilization, Tenants
East Village Tenants Say New Landlord Is Pushing Them Out
Long-time residents say they’re being hit with huge rent increases that have unsettled their lives and forced some of them to leave the building.
Posted inHousing
Harlem Tenants Ask Judge to Penalize Landlord of Building Rife With Rats and Leaks
The city’s housing agency is also suing, seeking to have heat and hot water restored to residents suffering multiple plagues.
Posted inMarijuana
The Mayor Says He’s Cracking Down on Unlicensed Weed Sales. His Task Force Says Otherwise.
The task force revisited only two of the first 53 locations it raided. Both were selling pot again.
Posted inMarijuana
Gray Market Thrives Even as Licensed Weed Takes Root in Greenwich Village
The new licensed operations have had lines out of the door — but the unlicensed ones have been making money for months. Not everyone is happy about that.
Posted inClimate Change
See Walls: Army Corps’ Citywide Coastal Storm Plan Takes Shape, Steals Views
A series of renderings offer a glimpse at a proposal that could be what a resiliency expert called “the largest transformation of our waterfront since the Robert Moses era.”