Recycling
It's Easy Being Green
Matthew T. Mitchell |
A New Jersey program aims to make affordable housing environmentally friendly. Why can’t New York do the same?
Staten Island
Ideas to Grow On
City Limits |
Six modest proposals that might make New York more livable in years to come, from creative demolition to neighborhood fisheries.
City Lit: Black in Brooklyn
Michael Hirsch |
A book review of A Covenant With Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, by Craig Steven Wilder, Columbia University Press, $35.
Times Square
Cityview: Flush With Victory
Gregory A. Butler |
An opinion column by Gregory A. Butler.
Lower East Side
Power to the People
Annia Ciezadlo |
Deregulation of the electric industry has unleashed a flood of proposals for new power plants. It also makes the job of fighting them that much easier for a coalition of neighborhood groups out to stop them.
Zones of Contention
Jonathan Bowles |
Waterfront neighborhoods have been dumping grounds for everything from waste stations to sewage plants. Residents are saying no more–and small businesses are getting caught in the crossfire.
Policy Link
Growing In
Keith Kloor |
To its Harlem neighbors, P.S. 90 is just another abandoned monstrosity. But a group of community developers believes it holds answers to a pair of the era’s most vexing problems: urban underinvestment and suburban sprawl.
Government
Running on Advocacy
Jill Grossman |
Why fight City Hall when you can be in it? In next November’s City Council election, it will be hard to find a ballot that doesn’t include a high-profile activist–or three.
Foundation Frustration
Rob McKay |
Charitable foundations want to improve life in poor neighborhoods. So do community organizers. So why don’t more philanthropists put their dollars behind the grassroots?
Wage Rage
Katherine Hawkins |
Big corporations and developers reap major subsidies from the city, but their service staffs make starvation wages. Now a wave of organizing campaigns is trying to change the equation.
