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REINING IN THE ZONING BOARD

Elizabeth Cady Brown | May 3, 2004

Two different tracks emerge for reforming the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals.

“SMALL” BANKS PLAN DRAWS ADVOCATES’ IRE

Elizabeth Cady Brown | April 26, 2004

Proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act could loosen redlining regulations.

CREDIT UNIONS GET A BOOST FROM ALBANY

Elizabeth Cady Brown | April 19, 2004

Struggling to stay afloat, credit unions may soon be able to get government incentives once reserved for banks.

Real estate speculation threatens to squeeze successful manufacturing businesses out of New York City. Now the City Council considers a way to help everyone win: charging housing developers who build on industrial turf a fee to help salvage jobs

City Hall

CLOUDY FORECAST

Elizabeth Cady Brown | April 5, 2004

How big is next year’s budget? Depends whom you ask.

Homelessness

DHS SENDS S.O.S. TO NONPROFITS

Elizabeth Cady Brown | March 29, 2004

City’s move to farm out key services may be a mixed blessing for community-based organizations.

Michael Bloomberg

CASH ADVANCE

Elizabeth Cady Brown | March 22, 2004

City tests out plan to help small social service contractors get paid more quickly.

Lower East Side

Betting on a Green Building Boom

Elizabeth Cady Brown | March 15, 2004

New York is poised to host a wave of environmentally sound construction. But if you want a blueprint, don’t look to the city’s new building code–industry activists are working to spark a marketplace revolution.