Become A Harlem Community Board Member, Deadline January 29th, 2016, 5 pm EST

01/25/201601/29/2016

Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer’s office is accepting applications for membership on Harlem and on Manhattan’s Community Boards and encourages all eligible Harlemites and New Yorkers living, working, or studying in the borough of Manhattan to consider applying to serve on their local Community Board. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select…

Participatory Budgeting Grows, But Not Everywhere

10/27/201510/27/2015

Gotham Gazette reports that in four years participatory budgeting has exploded from four to 27 New York City Council districts. With over 51,000 voters casting ballots last cycle to allocate a total of $32 million dollars to projects across the city, New York‘s experiment in direct democracy has quickly become the largest of its kind…