Avi Mermelstein, Author at City Limits

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Last December, a group of teens from the Bronx’s Schomburg Satellite Academy took their after-school project all the way to the Times Square offices of the New York Times Metro…

ByAvi Mermelstein 4 minRead time

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Mar 2001

Uncategorized

Night Watchmen

Every evening, vigilante volunteers take to the street to make sure homeless people with AIDS get what they deserve: a kind word and a clean bed.

ByAvi Mermelstein 6 minRead time

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Mar 2001

Uncategorized

Wait Not, Want Not

Payment delays from the Mayor’s Office of Contracts are wearing down many local not-for-profit organizations.

ByAvi Mermelstein 3 minRead time

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Mar 2001

Uncategorized

Stamp Connecting

This winter, New York State launched a new ad campaign to boost food stamp participation, targeted at senior citizens and former welfare recipients who have gone to work.

ByAvi Mermelstein 2 minRead time

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Feb 2001

Economy

TO MARKET, TO MARKET: UNIONS BATTLE TO SET UP SHOP

Some greengrocers are enlisting one union to fight another.

ByAvi Mermelstein 3 minRead time

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Feb 2001

Uncategorized

THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE CAT-BURGLAR LANDLORD

Tenants accused Agababian of housing code violations and rent gouging. Now police have charged him with something he could actually be punished for: burglary.

ByAvi Mermelstein 3 minRead time

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Jan 2001

Uncategorized

OUTSIDE OF STRIKING RANGE

After 18 hours of nonstop negotiations, a last-minute deal between Legal Services staff and management averts a strike.

ByAvi Mermelstein 1 minRead time

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Jan 2001

Housing and Homelessness

LAWYERS IN LIMBO

Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.

ByAvi Mermelstein 3 minRead time

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Jan 2000

Uncategorized

OUTSIDE OF STRIKING RANGE

After 18 hours of nonstop negotiations, a last-minute deal between Legal Services staff and management averts a strike.

ByAvi Mermelstein 1 minRead time

15

Jan 2000

Housing and Homelessness

LAWYERS IN LIMBO

Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.

ByAvi Mermelstein 3 minRead time

Avi Mermelstein

Teens v. Times

Night Watchmen

Wait Not, Want Not

Stamp Connecting

TO MARKET, TO MARKET: UNIONS BATTLE TO SET UP SHOP

THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE CAT-BURGLAR LANDLORD

OUTSIDE OF STRIKING RANGE

LAWYERS IN LIMBO

OUTSIDE OF STRIKING RANGE

LAWYERS IN LIMBO

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