Manhattan
CHARAS' Last Stand
Sarah Ferguson |
A venerable Latino-run community center is evicted.
Citywide
Let Them Eat Toast
Alex Ginsberg |
At a time when New Yorkers are flooding the city’s food pantries and soup kitchens at record levels, the public schools’ free breakfast program has some of the lowest attendance in the country.
Cash to Cras
Jill Grossman |
The Giuliani Administration considers paying homeless families to leave city shelters.
Learning Disabled
Mark Greer |
Tough graduation standards are prompting teens to seek another way out of high school: the GED. But as kids crowd adult ed classrooms, can local groups succeed where schools couldn’t?
Latino
Saving Buffalo From Extinction
David Blake |
Each year, thousands of refugees pass through Buffalo, a place with miseries of its own. Can these exiles be a dying city’s salvation?
Michael Bloomberg
The Big Idea: The Underground Railroad
Clive Thompson |
In Chicago, they’ve figured out a way to wire the whole city with high-speed Internet connections, and it won’t cost government a penny. Could New York do the same?
City Lit: Digging Up Dirt
Paul Parkhill |
A book review of Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City, By Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZierega Wall, Yale University Press, 374 pages, $39.95.
