Arms and Manhattan

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See your tax dollars at war in this breakdown of the NYPD’s $700 million counterterrorism budget.

Bronx

THE VIOLATOR

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After years of suffering with mold, mildew and crumbling ceilings, tenants of one South Bronx building may finally be getting the help they need from the city to deal with their negligent landlord.

Bronx

THE NEW COST CONSCIOUSNESS

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The age of the computer has finally arrived at the city’s welfare system. The Human Resources Administration announced last week it will soon begin using a computer program to more accurately calculate exactly what benefits its clients are eligible for.

Latino

TRANSLATION NEEDED

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Spanish-speaking residents of Bushwick claim no one at their local hospitals speaks their language, leaving them confused and, at times, without proper care. So a community group has asked the attorney general to investigate for civil rights violations.

Housing and Homelessness

HUD’S NEW PRIVATE PARTS

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More could mean less if President Bush’s proposed new budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. While it expands the agency’s coffers, the budget could cut New York City’s community development funds and deprive public housing of needed money for repairs.

Homelessness

HOUSING AID STILL NEEDED

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The city is still not providing adequate housing to homeless New Yorkers with AIDS, said a panel of judges last week, and the Bloomberg administration may soon have to pay.

Manhattan

FLATLINED? WEST SIDE RAILS CLOSE TO DEMOLITION

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Dreams of a park in the sky may soon be dashed. An appellate court recently lifted the restraining order that blocked the city from tearing down the High Line, the abandoned elevated railroad tracks that stretch above western Chelsea. Some local residents had hoped to see the tracks greened rather than grounded.