Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
A street fair operator’s attempt to follow city law while raising money for families of firefighters has put his holiday market vendors in the red just a week before Christmas.
As the economy continues to slump, the city’s janitors got some extra job protection last week, and moved their union up a few rungs on the city’s political ladder.
The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former…
A shortage of over-the-counter inhalers leaves asthmatic New Yorkers–especially those without health insurance–without an emergency remedy in case of an attack, and gives doctors hope that more people will seek…
After decades of battling with Lower East Side residents who hijacked vacant city buildings to make them their own, the city has agreed to help these renegades turn their squats…