A nonprofit building owner in trouble has tried to skirt losing its properties to the city by selling them to a for-profit realtor first. Some housing law experts say the group may have skirted the law, as well.
Immigrants in need of unemployment benefits better brush up on their English or Spanish. While the state launched new translation services for applicants a couple of weeks ago, more often than not they need translators just to access the program.
Or how poverty activists learned to stop worrying about WEP and to love government jobs programs.
A book review of The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other, by Randall Robinson. Dutton. 276 pages. $24.95.
New York’s celebrated newspaperman reconstructs the hopeful life–and senseless death–of a young Mexican construction worker. An excerpt from the new book, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gut
One of the city’s most successful housing groups has an entrepreneurial vision for bringing its neighborhood to the next level. Can Hope Community get there without leaving its tenants behind?
A recent federal court decision may shut the door for neighborhood activists who argue that toxic facilities violate civil rights.
You can beat NIMBY forces that fight residences for people with mental illness, but building bridges can take as much work and time as building the apartments.
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.
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.
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