Arms and Manhattan

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

THE VIOLATOR

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.

THE NEW COST CONSCIOUSNESS

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.

TRANSLATION NEEDED

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.

HUD’S NEW PRIVATE PARTS

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.

HOUSING AID STILL NEEDED

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.

FLATLINED? WEST SIDE RAILS CLOSE TO DEMOLITION

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.