Sept. 22, 2023 By Andrew Yuan and Pei Yin Cheong City government can be opaque. It’s sometimes hard to see the direct result of the money we pay for taxes. Not so with the Business Improvement Districts, or BIDs, which are funded by assessments on property owners that vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. You can. Read more »
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Back in 2014, Karesia Batan was an up-and-coming young dancer, living in Long Island City, and doing what she calls the “typical New York City artist hustle”: going to auditions