A new initiative will couple efforts to improve the supply of healthy food with community development that strengthens residents’ ability to afford a more nutritious lifestyle.
For decades housing advocates have hounded negligent property owners. Now there’s increasing focus on the lenders who permit them to buy other peoples’ homes.
While well-funded business improvement districts are major players in thriving commercial districts, many outer borough BIDs have too few resources to make a difference.
In a state where all hospitals are either public or non-profit, Gov. Cuomo’s bid to permit private investment in health facilities stirs cheer among fans and fears among opponents…
The mayor lauds the borough’s “progressive values,” but the buzzword’s application to Bronx politics is uneven at best—a fact that may complicate the mayor’s ability to execute his agenda.
The move to bring in outside management for some of the authority’s Section 8 properties is not the first, but comes at a sensitive time for the agency.
With more rigorous standards for the high-school equivalency diplomas set to arrive in 2014—and get harder after that—people are racing to prep for and take the test now.
Many think the former assemblyman and powerbroker is a creep. Some hail him as a hero. In Bushwick, his legacy—and the story of his downfall—are more complicated than either label…
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