Latino
PAINTERS 1, THESPIANS 0 IN LOWER EAST SIDE CULTURE BRAWL
Annia Ciezadlo |
Competing visions for the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have lead to charges of racism, battle for control of the lease, and suits and coutersuits.
Welfare
INTERMEDIATE RESULTS
Kathleen McGowan |
Just how does welfare reform work? Mostly through a wide variety of job placement intermediaries, according to a new report.
The Disabled
Italian Seasonings
Annia Ciezadlo |
For Wille Garcia and other formerly homeless photographers, the real trick isn’t light levels or focal distance–it’s connecting to people.
Make The Road
Guest Privileges
Laura Ciechanowski |
A lawsuit challenges welfare offices’ ban on bringing a friend.
Mystery in Spanish Harlem
Matt Pacenza |
Tenants succeed in booting a bad landlord, only to find themselves ordered to leave, too.
Government
Una’s Major Battle
James Bradley |
Brooklyn’s tightly controlled Democratic machine could blow a gasket as Councilwoman Una Clarke prepares to oust her former mentor and guide, powerhouse congressman Major Owens.
Brooklyn
Does it Give a BAM?
Robert Neuwirt |
The Brooklyn Academy of Music wants to turn its surroundings into an artistic mecca. Yet Fort Greene already is a cultural capital–one with many ideas of what that means.
Hillary Clinton
The Young and the Leftist
Kathleen McGowan |
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.
