Category Archives: City Limits
“Hope or Hype in Harlem” Wins NEWA Award
The National Education Writers Association awarded City Limits’ “Hope or Hype in Harlem?” second prize in the small market investigative category.
I took most of the photos in the magazine, which gave me an opportunity to take photographs and talk to teenagers, two things I love to do.
Harlem Children’s Zone
Here are some photographs I took for a series of City Limits articles about the Harlem Children’s Zone. From City Limits:
Founded by a committed advocate for low-income children, nurtured by the politically powerful and Wall Street titans, and lauded by media around the world, the Harlem Children’s Zone has raised a nation’s hopes. The Obama administration wants to use it as the model for a nationwide antipoverty plan. But what is really known about the success of the Zone? Is there enough evidence to base a larger initiative around it? Are other cities capable of developing their own versions of the Harlem Miracle? In the new City Limits, read an in-depth evaluation of the program that’s inspiring the federal government’s most innovative poverty-fighting initiative in decades.
Senior Living
I photographed and wrote this story for City Limits last year. The Baruch Elders Services Team (BEST) serves older residents at Baruch Houses, a public housing complex and naturally occurring retirement community on New York’s Lower East Side.
From the Archives
Here’s something from the vault. This is a story I shot for City Limits last winter about a family who received a homelessness prevention subsidy that was threatened by budget cuts. Their one-bedroom Bronx apartment was too small for three kids and their mom, but they couldn’t afford a larger apartment. Who knows where they’d be without the subsidy.
The family was very focused on education and on each other. It was nice to see a family who was making it work somehow, despite really stressful circumstances.
