Housing and Homelessness
CO-OPING WITH EVICTION
Annia Ciezadlo |
A legal loophole is letting units in one Harlem co-op be sold out from beneath longtime residents who can’t afford to swing with the booming housing market.
HRA Butts In
Annia Ciezadlo |
Work makes you free–especially if you’re toiling away in an ergonomically engineered $749 chair.
Hanging Out to Dry
Annia Ciezadlo |
A city union saved 200 hospital launderers’ jobs with an innovative deal. The catch? They’ll be spending the next year competing load-for-load with a private company–and only the cheapest gets to stay alive.
Manhattan
SEC SLAPS MENTAL HEALTH BIZ FOR WHITE-COLLAR STOCK CAPER
Annia Ciezadlo |
When American HealthCare Providers announced that it had secured a $23 million contract to provide medications to mental patients after their release from jails or hospitals, the stock price doubled. Trouble is, it isn’t true.
Welfare
SEATS OF POWER
Annia Ciezadlo |
Fit for a king–or at least a CEO–the Herman Miller Aeron chair is a marvel of ergonomics and engineering. So of course the city’s welfare agency had to have several dozen.
Bronx
POISON FOR THE POOR
Annia Ciezadlo |
Industrial strength pesticides meant only for licensed exterminators are sold on the street in poor neighborhoods in New York–and they could be a leading cause of asthma.
Big Green Brownout
Annia Ciezadlo |
Established environmental groups torpedo a progressive brownfields bill.
Latino
PAINTERS 1, THESPIANS 0 IN LOWER EAST SIDE CULTURE BRAWL
Annia Ciezadlo |
Competing visions for the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have lead to charges of racism, battle for control of the lease, and suits and coutersuits.
The Disabled
Italian Seasonings
Annia Ciezadlo |
For Wille Garcia and other formerly homeless photographers, the real trick isn’t light levels or focal distance–it’s connecting to people.
Staten Island
Prescription For Pain
Annia Ciezadlo |
Medicaid managed care promised savings with dignity. Instead, it’s fraught with pitfalls for the poor, who find it’s up to them to hunt down health care.
