Includes issues of City Almanac, a bi-monthly publication of the Center. Contains one copy each of Volume 1, Issues 1-6; Volume 2, Issues 1-3; and Volume 3, Issues 1-2, 6. A full run of the publication is available in The New School periodicals collection in The New School Archives.

Cohen was director and then dean of the Center for New York City Affairs.

According to a press release found in the file, the Community News Service, part of the Center for New York City Affairs, was a reporting organization to provide daily news coverage of trends and events in New York's major minority communities.