Bronx
Dream Off?
Matt Pacenza |
For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream about to be deferred for good?
Shock Treatment
Ruth Ford |
Like all hospitals and clinics that treat the poor, Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center is being walloped by changes in Medicaid. Its doctors pray that a medical makeover can get them out of intensive care.
Cash of the Titans
Clive Thompson |
High-tech hotshots made a bundle during the boom, and now they’re giving it away. But not for free: As venture philanthropy trickles through the nonprofit world, the MBA mentality could change the definition of social change.
City Lit: Petticoat Function
Keith Meatto |
A book review of How Women Saved the City, by Daphne Spain, University of Minnesota Press, 288 pages, $34.95.
