Eastern Correctional Facility in Orange County, like other prisons, keeps its library to keep inmates quiet. But as a librarian discovers, the reading room is more than a place where patrons steal the books they love–it’s somewhere they can find themselves.
A book review of American Project: The Rise and Fall of an American Ghetto, by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Harvard University Press, $29.95.
Bed-Stuy’s residents say there’s a growing sense of community in this neighborhood, and part of that may be due to Brownstone, the community’s 4-month-old bookstore.
The name Beluga Caviar usually brings to mind the finer things in life, not a rat-infested basement, cigarette-strewn hallways, and days on end without electricity, hot water or heat.
Battle lines for the new economy are being drawn in the South Bronx, of all places, as a building that has housed woodworking shops for years is being rewired with T-1 internet lines.
Asset management classes aren’t just for yuppies: Bedford-Stuyvesant residents learn the ropes on investing, retirement accounts and homeownership.
The Metropolitan Oval, a dusty patch of soccer heaven in Maspeth, has brought true fans together for decades.
A Bronx credit union partners with a check casher, boosting services and raising eyebrows.
More than a year ago, City Limits exposed a federally funded outrage: the milking of Harlem real estate for quick cash. The scheme has left dozens of shoddy buildings in limbo-and stuck HUD with a disputed $50 million-plus bill.
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