Citywide
Families Rejected, Shelter Rooms Empty
Andrew White |
Even as the city is telling hundreds of homeless families that they are not eligible for temporary shelter, scores of rooms in apartment-style nonprofit shelters are sitting empty.
Subpoenas for AIDS Officials
by John Harlacher |
The City Council’s general welfare committee voted unanimously late last month to subpoena two Giuliani administration officials.
Bad Air Days
Glenn Thrush |
A team of New York City doctors has found that the main culprits for asthma-related visits to the city’s emergency room are soot, smog and auto emissions.
Staten Island
Wedge City
Glenn Thrush |
Sure, the landlord lobby loves Republicans. But wait till you hear their plan to turn New York City’s Democratic legislators into pawns in the rent-regulation endgame.
Brooklyn
Take My Midwife, Please
by Kristine Blomgren |
Alternatives to doctor-delivered Ob-Gyn care are still controversial, but they’re here to stay. Many low-income women like the change.
Citywide
Schoolhouse Block
Jill Kirschenbaum |
A small public academy dedicated to racial harmony and social justice was set to open in Crown Heights–before a last gasp of school board politics put it in jeopardy.
Citywide
Demolition Derby
Kim Nauer |
Rudy Giuliani begged the Clinton administration to fulfill a $48 million promise to the New York City Housing Authority. HUD agreed, but there were strings attached–wrecking balls, actually. Now, Rockaway tenants are trying to block the destruction of precious apartments.
Citywide
Independents' Day
Kierna Mayo |
Who says overcrowded public schools are the only option for black kids? Increasingly, poor and working-class African American parents are sending their kids to Afrocentric private academies that have taken the idea of “community control” more to heart than the educational bureaucracy ever did.
Brooklyn
A “Cure” for the Homeless
Phyllis Vine |
New York has moved from battleship-sized homeless shelters to a network of privately-run, smaller treatment programs. But is the get-well-or get-out philosophy really a solution?
