Citywide
City Lit: Now and Then
Roger Sanjek |
A book review of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration, by Nancy Foner, Yale University Press, 336 pages, $29.95.
Citywide
Cityview: Missing Foundation
L.A. Weikart and G. Pasanen |
An opinion column by Lynne A. Weikart and Glenn Pasanen.
Bronx
The History Channel
Kathleen McGowan |
A vats wasteland: A new book documents the toxic history of Queens Laurel Hill copper works.
Citywide
Stamp Connecting
Avi Mermelstein |
This winter, New York State launched a new ad campaign to boost food stamp participation, targeted at senior citizens and former welfare recipients who have gone to work.
Wait Not, Want Not
Avi Mermelstein |
Payment delays from the Mayor’s Office of Contracts are wearing down many local not-for-profit organizations.
Home Economics
Kathleen McGowan |
Political heavyweights and federal housing officials announced a last-minute save in January that would rescue about 465 brownstones that have been pillaged, exploited and left for dead through scams carried out under the federal mortgage insurance program known as 203(k).
Christine Quinn
Night Watchmen
Avi Mermelstein |
Every evening, vigilante volunteers take to the street to make sure homeless people with AIDS get what they deserve: a kind word and a clean bed.
Citywide
Divine Intervention
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From youth and seniors programs to food banks and drug rehab, social service jobs are trickling down to churches. Now, with help from a new foundation project, they may be able to get some money, too.
Citywide
Home in One
Nora McCarthy |
How can mentally ill homeless people get the housing and the help they need? Streamline the referral process, say the folks behind a Brooklyn-based pilot program.
Brooklyn
Metropolitan Operatives
Sajan P. Kuriakos |
Thanks to term limits, scads of city offices will be up for grabs this fall–but that doesn’t mean your favorite neighborhood progressive candidate is a shoo-in. Three political kingmakers give wannabe contenders some pointers. City Limits gets the 411 from Martin Brennan, Kevin Finnegan and Micah Lasher.
