Turn Your Head and Coif
Brad Tuttle |
Women put their heads in Donna Harpe’s hands. Now they entrust her with their health, too.
Citywide
After-School Special, By George
Glenn Thrush |
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is apparently ready to pass some of his money to New York City’s after-school youth programs.
Citywide
Subsidizing Slot
Laura Seigle |
The Administration for Children’s Services’ slow application process has made its emergency housing relief virtually useless.
Citywide
HPD’s Half-Court Press
Carl Vogel |
Some advice to recent law school grads: Don’t bother sending your resume to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Citywide
Minor Catastrophe
Kathleen McGowan |
Some teen mothers have every reason not to live at home. But welfare offices are turning them away–even though they’re legally entitled to benefits.
Citywide
SROs on Strike
Kemba Johnson |
They are paid lavishly to house AIDS tenants in less-than-palatial buildings, but the city’s SRO landlords are charging that they’re not getting all that’s due. Their five-month-old boycott leaves homeless people with AIDS with even fewer options.
Look Homeward
Alyssa Katz |
At 13, Jonathan was violently unpredictable, regularly using angel dust and impossible for his mother or teachers to control. Now, after a three-year journey through mental health and drug treatment centers, he wants out of the system. Luckily, his latest residence, the Return to Home program, gives troubled teenagers the support they need to move back to their neighborhoods.
Cityview: Pain in the Ask
Stephen DiBrienza |
Why welfare commissioner Jason Turner must testify before the City Council.
Latino
Fair Market Values
Abby Scher |
Students at El Puente Academy met after school for months looking into ways to transform Williamsburg’s stagnant economy. Their solution, an open-air market, capitalizes on local talents and needs.
City Lit: Left Turn Signal
Andrew White |
A book review of The New Majority, edited by Stanley Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, Yale University Press, 1997, 298 pages, $30.
