Local job trainers are on the outs with the city’s welfare agency, replaced by a dozen national for-profit welfare-to-work companies, a few of which ring alarm bells with industry insiders.
Welfare mothers have a hard time finding child care for their kids when they get a workfare slot–the mayor’s new plan to add homeless families to the program is fraught with even more problems.
A new set of contracts with trash-hauling trucking companies show that the interim plan to move the garbage via roads to New Jersey may last a bit longer than advertised.
In the heart of Manhattan’s expensive Madison Square neighborhood, one SRO with a crime-ridden past is bucking a trend.
If Flushing’s multilingual collage of signs appeals to you, take a Polaroid–along with Goldfingers and dairy farms, it could soon be a relic of Queens past.
In mid-September, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders got together to issue a declaration that housing should be considered a “sacred right.”
Merchants in Brownsville are paying extra taxes to get a better business climate. So far, though, all they’re getting is promises from the Business Improvement District they fund.
Curmudgeonly commentary, an enemies list and Texas-sized lies–Senator Phil Gramm is out to destroy the Community Reinvestment Act, and even the banks can’t stop him.
Brooklyn tenant organizers hope that where rent laws can’t protect tenants, embarrassing their landlords may succeed. With old-fashioned pressure tactics, they’re fighting evictions in the streets.
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