Recycling
Rotten Deal
Daniel Hendrick |
Environmental oversight gets trashed in Queens.
Recycling
ROTTEN DEAL
Daniel Hendrick |
Documents reveal that the state Department of Environmental Conservation let a rule-breaking waste transfer facility in Queens go unchecked for years.
Bronx
ADULTS WONDER WHERE HOME IS AS FACILITY PLANS TO CLOSE
Daniel Hendrick |
A couple hundred mentally ill adults in Queens are about to lose their home, and the city’s supportive housing shortage does not bode well for their future.
Joel Klein
FOR NEXT TERM, TEEN MOMS STAY PUT
Daniel Hendrick |
The city’s plan to transfer pregnant teens and young moms from their own special program back into regular high schools has been tabled-at least for now.
Latino
Older Kids Lose Out
Daniel Hendrick |
Overhauling alternative high schools could push out the system’s senior residents.
Bronx
OLDER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LOSING SEATS
Daniel Hendrick |
Education czar Joel Klein’s plan to reorganize several high schools meant for the city’s oldest, most troubled students could slowly squeeze those kinds of kids out of the system altogether.
FILTRATION COMPANY PREYS ON FEARS OVER TROUBLED WATER
Daniel Hendrick |
As a
community-based study of cancer rates in Southeast Queens gets underway, city
officials say a company that sells high-end water filtration systems is
preying on local residents’ fears — and posing as city workers to get
into their homes, and their faucets.
City Covers Superfund Costs
Daniel Hendrick |
With state funds dry, the city foots the bill for cleanng up Jamaica, Queens’ groundwater
TO THE RESCUE: CITY PICKS UP QUEENS SUPERFUND COST
Daniel Hendrick |
State lawmakers stalled and bickered, so New York City officials decided to go ahead on their own and pay $11 million to clean up an old dry cleaning distributor in Queens.
