Kathleen McGowan, Author at City Limits

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When Bob Moses built the Gowanus Expressway in 1941, he split up South Brooklyn, condemned a major commercial strip–and created a safe haven for industry in Sunset Park.

ByKathleen McGowan 19 minRead time

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Jan 1999

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Cracked Assumptions

Whatever happened to all the crack babies we used to hear about?

ByKathleen McGowan 2 minRead time

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Dec 1998

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LANDLORDS CAN EVADE FED RULING AGAINST THREE-DAY EVICTIONS

A court decision seems to give tenants a lot of new rights under a federal debt-collection law, but a big loophole renders much of the protection moot.

ByKathleen McGowan 3 minRead time

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Dec 1998

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DISCREDITED

Attorney General Dennis Vacco says that voters with no credit history must be fakes, but those in the know beg to differ.

ByKathleen McGowan 1 minRead time

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Dec 1998

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Lien Days Ahead

For the first time since the 1970s, tax-delinquent buildings are being auctioned off in New York.

ByKathleen McGowan 4 minRead time

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Nov 1998

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REV. JAMES DANIEL, JR., (1943-1998)

Community organizer, pastor and fair banking advocate Rev. James Daniel, Jr., died of cancer last month.

ByKathleen McGowan 1 minRead time

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Nov 1998

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WORKING FAMILIES PARTY SEES GLIMMER OF HOPE THIS WEEK

It takes 50,000 guburnatorial votes to put a party on the ballot in the next four years of elections in New York State, and last week, the Working Families Party…

ByKathleen McGowan 2 minRead time

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Nov 1998

Justice

CONTRACT HIGHS

An analysis of the city’s biggest private expenses is topped with multi-million dollar contracts for garbage and foster care.

ByKathleen McGowan 2 minRead time

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Nov 1998

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Grants' Tomb?

In recent years, foundations have plowed big money into a raging stock market, and their endowments reflect it. Funders and their beneficiaries are wondering if a bear market will have…

ByKathleen McGowan 13 minRead time

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Oct 1998

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