Last week’s settlement between Mayor Bloomberg and Attorney General Spitzer added hundreds of community gardens to the city’s roster of green spaces, but some neighborhoods lost a disproportionate chunk of the only parks they had.
As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves for a rise in foster care cases.
A longtime leader of one of New York’s oldest foundations takes a bow, and a lobbyist for tenant organizing cash joins a foundation to give some away.
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