After decades of languishing in hazardous waste, the creek that flows along Coney Island’s shores is about to get cleaned up — and become accessible again to local residents and the fish.
Prosecutors have convened a grand jury to determine whether or not the former directors of Praxis, an AIDS housing and social services organization, should be charged with misappropriation of public funds.
President Bush’s proposal to block-grant Section 8 will cost the city 4,000 vouchers, the IBO says.
Fifth Avenue Committee Executive Director Brad Lander is leaving after ten years at the organization’s helm.
Tenants of the Noble Drew Ali housing development in East New York tried to shame the city out of displacing residents to put up homeless families.
Councilmember Alan Gerson panned yesterday the mayor’s plan to generate affordable housing in his lower Manhattan district.
Parents of more than 12,700 children handed them over to government custody in 2001 in order to get mental health care for them, according to the GAO.
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