A book review of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance, by Christopher Mele, University of Minnesota Press, $19.95, 361 pages.
The hype holds that working poor is the thing to be these days. But a close look at the resources available to low-paid working families shows that getting people off…
Palm trees, surf and endless summers aren’t the only reasons to envy La-La Land. Some of its urban policies aren’t bad, either. From a thriving manufacturing sector to a living-wage…
Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a…
A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
We asked the three Democratic mayoral candidates what they plan to do about five issues of vital import to the city’s neighborhoods. Messinger wants a real welfare-to-work program. Albanese is…
Flush with a Bull market windfall, the mayor is talking tax cuts to the wealthy. But low-income residents will miss out on their Wall Street bonuses. A primer on city…
