According to a survey of 63 soup kitchens and food pantries, 56 percent saw an immediate increase” in the demand for meals and food after 9/11.

When the city set out to collect debt on its most troubled properties, it touted the millions that it would bring to city coffers. But when fiscal concerns dictate housing…

Activists monitoring the effect of the city’s tax lien sales program on apartment building tenants recently discovered something they weren’t looking for: The sales are hurting poor, often elderly outer-borough…