Latino
Squatters' Rites
Robert Neuwirt |
The activists, laborers and hippies who’ve made abandoned buildings into viable homes were the scourge of City Hall. Now Loisaida’s last outlaws have become government-sponsored homeowners.
David Dinkins
Squatters' Rites: Taking Liberties
Annia Ciezadlo |
The finer historical highlights of squatting in New York City.
Squatters' Rites: Homes Above Ground
Annia Ciezadlo |
Find out where the legal squatters of the Alphabet City make their home and what they’re like.
Michael Bloomberg
Political Consciousness
Alyssa Katz |
Liz Krueger has battled bureaucrats, empowered the poor and prevailed in a tough campaign. But can she turn the most thankless elected job in New York into a force for change?
Mark Winston Griffith
Sold Out
Hilary Russ |
Officials said street vendors had to leave New York’s shopping districts because they were bad for business. Now the sidewalks are clear–not just of vendors, but customers, too.
Michael Bloomberg
Big Idea: Tax the Street
J.W. Mason |
Need city budget revenue? Tax Wall Street. Nearly every other major financial city does.
City Lit: Out of Africa
Hakim Hasan |
Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City, by Paul Stoller.
Make The Road
Making Change: Poverty 3.0
Steven Gnagni |
Take donated computers. Add free software. Stir gently with staff training, time-consuming customization and inevitable glitches.
