Lower East Side
The HUD Haggle
Naush Boghossian |
On the Lower East Side, a landlord threatens to give up government subsidies and the restrictions that go with them. Is it a real threat or a ploy to get more money? Maybe both.
Lower East Side
City Lit: Alphabet City Slicker
City Limits |
A book review of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance, by Christopher Mele, University of Minnesota Press, $19.95, 361 pages.
Bill Clinton
Making Up Kids' Minds
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The charter school revolution has arrived, with promises of innovation and choice. But community groups say the business has room for only one idea of what kids need from their schools.
Time and Memorials
Helen M. Stummer |
Sometimes even a grave marker doesn’t last. In Newark, the bereaved honor their dead with spray paint, bottles, T-shirts and a determination to keep these fragile Rest In Peace memorials alive.
Lower East Side
Lay of the Landlords
Joe Heaphy |
Apartment building owners are dropping out of federal subsidy programs faster than you can say “market rents.”
Owning Up to It
JoAnn DiLorenzo |
In Massachusetts, a tenant group has persuaded everyone from Ted Kennedy to town councils to help them buy their apartments from the feds. And that’s just the foundation of the Anti-Displacement Project’s grassroots empire.
Power Outrage
Sajan P. Kuriakos |
The deregulation of New York’s power industry is making electric bills as freewheeling as the Nasdaq. Instead of taking a promised dive, prices are heading higher than the mercury.
Lower East Side
Hot for Profit
Kathleen McGowan |
Gambling that history won’t repeat itself, the city’s housing agency is selling troubled buildings back to private landlords.
Hanging Out to Dry
Annia Ciezadlo |
A city union saved 200 hospital launderers’ jobs with an innovative deal. The catch? They’ll be spending the next year competing load-for-load with a private company–and only the cheapest gets to stay alive.
