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Housing and Neighborhoods
Owners of large rental apartment buildings in the city are subject to a higher effective property tax rate than owners of one- to three-family homes, and they bear a disproportionate share of the city’s overall property tax burden, according to this housing and neighborhoods report by NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. (May 8, 2012)

Parking at East River Plaza
The 1,248 parking space garage at East Harlem's big box mall, East River Plaza, has gone mostly unused, according to this report released by the American Planning Association. Only about a third of shoppers there drive, it concludes, making the garage a waste of public funds and a lost opportunity for additional development. (April 25, 2012)

Banking in the Bronx
The Bronx has only 145 bank branches, according to this report by the University Neighborhood Housing Program. (April 24, 2012)

Crime, Safety, Walking and Biking in Bed-Stuy
This report by Transportation Alternatives looks at how perceptions of safety, crime, and violence impact active transportation in Bed-Stuy. (April 10, 2012)

Design and Architecture in the City
New York City graduates twice as many students in design and architecture as any other U.S. city, but the city’s design schools are not only providing the talent pipeline for New York’s creative industries — they have become critical catalysts for innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth, according to this report by the Center for an Urban Future. (March 22, 2012)

Find your Community Board
A list with contact and web address information for local community boards in all 5 boroughs. Community Board websites typically contain demographic and statistical data, in addition to constituent services.
Project for Public Spaces: Jane Jacobs
PPS was founded as a non-profit in 1975 to build upon the pioneering Street Life Project of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. Since then they have developed a unique process for transforming public spaces, which they call "Placemaking."
The New Urban Renewal: Reclaiming Our Neighborhoods
Web-site of a 1997 PBS series introducing viewers to the work of community development corporations.
Ideas that Matter
Devoted to stimulating public discourse on issues related to living within cities.
Neighborhood Open Space Coalition
Working within New York to preserve and reestablish open spaces for public use.