Citywide
Eternal Wanderer
Wendy Davis |
In November, City Limits readers were introduced to Caryn, a 16-year-old living in a city-run East New York group home. Her murder in April ended a life lived on the run.
Citywide
The Wrong Haul
Michael Hirsch |
As the city moves to dump its garbage on Red Hook, the beleaguered neighborhood fights back–with a little help from its friends up and down the waterfront.
Citywide
Switch Hitter
Kemba Johnson |
Green activist Judith Enck has exchanged her picket signs for a set inside the State Attorney General’s environmental office.
Organizing Drive
Matthew Strozier |
They make a living driving bigshots around, but the city’s “black car” chauffeurs are only being driven one place: into debt. A union push to organize them has yielded unprecedented victories–and caught the labor movement’s attention.
Citywide
The Welfare Estate
Kathleen McGowan |
The most lucrative welfare-to-work job, as former Giuliani advisor Richard Schwartz has learned, is finding work for other people. A new breed of employment brokers lands contracts by connecting government money with business sense.
Bronx
Response Time
City Limits |
Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a lasting movement, or just a shooting star?
Citywide
Cityview: Full Court Press
Jeanne Mullgrav |
How the fragmentation of New York’s courts does injustice to families.
Bronx
City Lit: A Fruitful Searc
James DeFilippis |
A book review of Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modem Brooklyn, by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias, University of Iowa Press, 1999, 512 pages, $32.95.
