David Dinkins
Open University
Bob Roberts |
Columbia University plans to build a new campus in Harlem, using eminent domain if necessary. Local residents and businesses are proposing an alternative: campus and community coexistence.
Bronx
MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN: W. HARLEM TAKES ON COLUMBIA
Bob Roberts |
Backed by Norman Siegel, local business owners fight to protect their property from eminent domain.
Latino
Police Line–Do Cross
Bob Roberts |
One Police Plaza brass don’t track the neighborhood drug trade. Anti-terror efforts are taking detectives off local cases. In the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct, it all adds up to one conclusion: Cops and the community have to find some way to work together.
Michael Bloomberg
City Lit: Homelessness Reconsidered
Bob Roberts |
Reckoning with Homelessness, by Kim Hopper. Reviewed by Bob Roberts.
Times Square
Beyond the Bowery
Bob Roberts |
An aging flophouse is getting a full makeover, with Japanese-style cubicles and attentive caseworkers. With the new digs come new neighbors–and for old-timers, a reckoning with a dying way of life.
Community Service Society of New York
The Big Idea: Meet the New Boss
Bob Roberts |
Or how poverty activists learned to stop worrying about WEP and to love government jobs programs.
We Are Family
Bob Roberts |
Nothing is easy when you don’t have a home–least of all love. Meet seven homeless couples facing the difficulties of shelter and street life.
