New York cops and prosecutors have begun applying high-pressure law enforcement tactics to child welfare cases. It makes for good press, but a City Limits investigation finds that some guiltless mothers and their kids are getting punished along with the guilty.
Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is famous for cultivating grassroots support. So why is she plotting a Clintonesque media campaign in her race to become New York’s first woman mayor?
In some communities, public school overcrowding is the number one issue in this year’s race.
We asked the three Democratic mayoral candidates what they plan to do about five issues of vital import to the city’s neighborhoods. Messinger wants a real welfare-to-work program. Albanese is going to give New Yorkers a living wage. Sharpton? He doesn’t seem to have any definite plans for the future.
An innovative new drug treatment and family counseling center grows on the site of one of Alphabet City’s most notorious cocaine-dealing bodegas.
Life in foster care can be as hard as any situation kids come from.
City agencies can’t find enough clerical jobs or brooms to keep workfare workers busy. That’s why Mayor Giuliani’s planning to export thousands of them to neighborhood nonprofits.
The city is putting welfare moms to work without helping them find decent child care. The kids will suffer now–and in the future.
Planners who want to build a park on Governor’s Island, New York Harbor’s grassy knoll, are fighting to keep the bucolic bastion out of the commercial mainstream.
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is a cavernous schoolhouse crammed with theater, painting, sculpture and dance. Where else can you catch a genuine Punch-and-Rudy show, or the first New York International Fringe Theater Festival?
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