Restoration Hardline

When workers at the legendary Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation began to organize a union, management got busy, too, hiring a firm with a reputation for union-busting. Is this any way to help a neighborhood?

Zoning Bout

Targeting new terrain to cure its housing crunch, Williamsburg’s Hasidic community is using a legal loophole to build up Bed-Stuy–driving neighborhood residents to court or out altogether.

Becoming Home

After millions of dollars in debt, 2,000 building code violations, feuds between tenant groups and stints in every management program the city has to offer, what do the residents of 640 and 644 Riverside want? Crazy as it sounds, a chance to be their own landlords.

The Astoria Line

Term limits were supposed to bring new blood to the City Council, but in some cases the 2001 elections will be a familly affair. Exhibit A: Peter Vallone, Jr., whose loyalty to his Council Speaker father is as ample as his agenda is obscure.