The streets of Fort Greene have a lot going for them: elegant brownstones, shady trees, hip cafes and zealous police patrols. An aggressive cop crackdown on parolees and project-dwellers now divides the neighborhood into two halves: the suspected and the protected.
Bringing New York’s schools under mayoral control may be a hot idea, but other cities are learning a painful lesson: taking power from the boards doesn’t take the politics out of schools.
A book review of Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950, By Robert M. Fogelson, Yale University Press, $35, 492 pages.
Organizations advocating for immigrant workers are racking up unprecedented victories in the courts. Are they giving up their strength on the streets?
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