Nonprofits that have recieved grants from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company are finding that the money comes with a strong-arm request to endorse the utility’s proposed merger.
In the latest issue of City Limits: How the city’s housing bureaucracy ruined an innovative program designed to allow some public housing to become co-ops for the low-income tenants.
They thought it was the deal of their lives. Working families jumped at the city housing authority’s offer to sell them cheap, renovated apartments. But four years later, nothing has…