Dreams of a park in the sky may soon be dashed. An appellate court recently lifted the restraining order that blocked the city from tearing down the High Line, the abandoned elevated railroad tracks that stretch above western Chelsea. Some local residents had hoped to see the tracks greened rather than grounded.
Families will not lose their rental subsidies when they reach their five-year limit on federal public assistance, the state welfare office announced last month. Not all of it, anyway.
The city is still not providing adequate housing to homeless New Yorkers with AIDS, said a panel of judges last week, and the Bloomberg administration may soon have to pay.
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