Make The Road

Stars Big and Small

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If, by chance, you were idly wondering what Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Locklear and Miss USA 1999 might have to contribute to the struggle for community change, listen up.

Citywide

Union Labels

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For the first time, New York City police, firefighters, sanitation workers and corrections officers unions will back their own slate of candidates for City Council. They will have the money and manpower, but will the union candidates represent the whole city or just themselves?

Citywide

Teaching What’s Wrong

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A landmark lawsuit claims New York City schools deserve more state funding than they now receive. One high school class is watching the proceedings closely, trying to learn how the system works–and when it doesn’t.

Lower East Side

Building Blocks

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For years, the New York Equity Fund has been the financial middleman for virtually every low-income housing project in town. Thats’s meant profits for the fund, little choice for developers and big questions about what happens when the tax credits run out.

Latino

Green With Envy

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Neighborhood environmental justice groups have labored in obscurity for years, picketing polluters and tilting at transfer stations. Now, as national evironmental organizations are eyeing their street-level work, some wonder whether New York’s “EJ” groups will keep it real.

Citywide

Subtraction Lesson

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School choice is supposed to reward success and punish failure–and that’s exactly happening at the lackluster I.S. 70 in Chelsea. But when a sub-par school gets shut down, it’s not clear who benefits.