Now Read This: Books and Reports
City Limits |
Foster Mothering * Other Lessons of 9/11 * Without License in New Jersey
Con Edison
Con Ed Economics
Daniel Hendrick |
Downsizing Con Ed’s in-person payment offices may be inconvenient for its customers, but it’s a boon to check cashing businesses.
Latino
A Break for a Break
Alyssa Katz |
Developers getting a break from Jersey City have to put up more than buildings: their contracts now require them to cough up cash for an affordable housing fund.
Arms and Manhattan
Pat Sisson |
See your tax dollars at war in this breakdown of the NYPD’s $700 million counterterrorism budget.
Michael Bloomberg
Local Lessons
Maura McDermott |
Plans to eliminate school boards are garnering plenty of attention, but some parents are calling for not only keeping the boards, but strengthening them.
Lower East Side
Fighting for Good Fortune
Geoffrey Gray |
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, dedicated to showcasing the lives of tenants of times past, may be evicting contemporary ones.
Latino
Moving to Queens
Corey Takahashi |
Culture wars have a whole different meaning in the city’s Indo-Caribbean nightclub scene, where ethnicity, music and sex collide and blend to the beat of the new New Yorker.
Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Retention Deficit Disorder
Joan Fitzgerald |
Incentives to keep companies in New York have failed miserably, but other governments have shown it’s possible to hang on to good jobs without giving away the store.
