Sobro Goes Soho
Carolyn Bigda |
Elected officials are charging forward on their plan to make the South Bronx safe for sculptors and shoppers, but what about the people who live and work there now?
Housing and Homelessness
CITY SEEKS VOLUNTEERS TO DEVELOP CHEAP SLOPE HOMES
Carolyn Bigda |
An effort to rezone part of Park Slope for affordable housing died last week when the mayor and City Council instead agreed to set aside subsidies for low-cost apartments — an offer housing advocates predict developers will never buy into given the booming housing market.
Bronx
CITY PULLS JOB PLAN
Carolyn Bigda |
Following an outcry from youth advocates and City Council members, the city Department of Employment last week withdrew a controversial proposal for its summer youth employment program that could have left a disproportionate number of teens from the city’s poorest neighborhoods without jobs.
Bronx
BRONX TEENS GET JOBBED
Carolyn Bigda |
Already facing big competition for a small number of publicly-funded summer jobs, low-income teens’ prospects for employment when school lets out in June may be even worse than they thought — thanks to a miscalculation by the city Department of Employment.
