March 1, 1998 : City Limits

Suite Surrender

Dylan Foley | March 1, 1998

An SRO slumlord makes life a misery for his tenants.

Community Service Society of New York

Good ICOP, Bad ICOP

Laura Claxton | March 1, 1998

The city housing authority has systematically weakened its officially sanctioned tenant advisory council to the point where the group has become useless.

Mount Hope-ful

Brad Tuttle | March 1, 1998

Tenants organize to get results from a recalcitrant landlord.

Roberts' Rules

Kim Nauer | March 1, 1998

To keep their city consulting dollars, neighborhood housing groups now have to lend a hand to landlords.

Out of COJO’s Shadow

Holly Rosenkrantz | March 1, 1998

One of the most innovative small-business assistance organizations in the city has is roots in the rubble of the city’s most infamous community organization.

No Shore Thing

Kemba Johnson | March 1, 1998

The city and state have agreed to spend $200 million to open the planned Hudson River Park. It’s keeping it open they want nothing to do with.

The Adventures of LiberAL

Glenn Thrush | March 1, 1998

Faster than a speeding bullet, Al D’Amato is making new friends. Among liberals. But this is no secret identity crisis: it’s reelection time.

City Hall has all but scrapped job training and education as acceptable trajectories for welfare parents. Other cities and states aren’t nearly so obsessed with the ideology of workfare–and leave lots of room for real opportunity.