Citywide
PBS: Labor's Love Lost
Robin Epstein |
PBS has blocked the broadcast of Out at Work, a documentary that profiles three working-class gays and lesbians who face on-the-job discrimination.
Citywide
Rudy Kicks Kiddie Clinics
Glenn Thrush |
Mayor Rudy Giuliani may be trying to airbrush himself a softer election year image.
Citywide
HPD Gives Tenants Code Shoulder
Kim Nauer |
Officials at the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are looking for ways to bring the city’s code enforcement policy in line with the Giuliani administration’s long-time goal of making the system more landlord-friendly.
Citywide
20,000 and Counting
Robin Epstein |
A network of neighborhood organizations that threw itself into voter mobilization says it got 20,000 people across the city to go to the polls.
Citywide
Parent-Teacher Conference
Zhanna Agran |
When Maria Jay-Vega came to New York in the early 1980s, she couldn’t understand English–or why the Board of Education was trying to put her son in Special Ed. Now she’s on the verge of founding New York’s first parent-teacher-run school in East Brooklyn.
Citywide
Dr. Downsize
Michael Hirsch |
The boss of a backwater Brooklyn hospital wrote the book on cutting jobs in hospitals around the country. His slash and burn credo may be New York’s next health care wave.
Citywide
School for Wayward Landlords
Beth Fertig |
A long-time tenant organizer thinks the best way to turn slumlords into conscientious owners is to teach them the errors of their ways.
Citywide
Promises, Promises
Glenn Thrush |
They thought it was the deal of their lives. Working families jumped at the city housing authority’s offer to sell them cheap, renovated apartments. But four years later, nothing has come of the city’s pledge. And 450 Bronx and Manhattan tenants say the deal looks like a con job.
The Disabled
Disabled Need Not Apply
Adam Fifield and Robert P. Bennett |
Violating legal mandates to provide handicapped-accessible apartments, the housing authority is ignoring the needs of thousands of disabled tenants, some of whom have to dismantle and reassemble their wheelchairs just to get through their own front doors.
Rudy's Tough Guise
Harvey Robins |
A Democratic gadfly says Giuliani’s hard-guy image is nothing more than a powder-puff PR campaign. The mayor, he belives, is avoiding the tough decisions that will get to the core of New York’s chronic problems.
