Lower East Side
Straight From the Harp
Heather Bryant |
The Howie the Harp center prepares students for outreach, counseling, advocacy and case management jobs.
Lower East Side
City Lit: Yanqui Doodle
City Limits |
A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
Bruno's Boom
Glenn Thrush |
Defying statistics, the state is going to direct millions in housing aid to middle class districts upstate.
Bronx
Trial Size
Kezia Parsons |
A new youth court is being under-utilized and depriving teenagers of alternative justice.
Loco 3369
Idra Rosenberg |
The leaders of the Social Security workers union are so busy plotting against each other, it’s a wonder anyone gets their retirement checks.
Gunning for Gus
Michael Hirsch |
By representing pro-democracy union dissidents, lawyer Arthur Schwartz is doing well while doing good. Can he finally unseat untouchable maintenance union boss Gus Bevona?
Mark Winston Griffith
Cityview: Eyewitness to a Merger
Mark Winston Griffith |
The perils of bank consolidation.
No Power of Attorney
Glenn Thrush |
Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Legal Services chapter has high-paid managers and a $1.4 million budget, but until recently it had zero staff attorneys. How one of New York’s poorest communities is struggling with substandard legal representation.
Stuck in Lodi
Robin Epstein |
The teenagers of Lodi, New Jersey thought they had heard enough about the fatal factory explosion that killed five people in their town. Then they interviewed Jim Gannon.
