Through the transitional jobs program, hundreds of former welfare recipients have performed actual city jobs—not workfare. But state budget reductions will force the program to scale back.
As tabloids celebrate an on-time state budget, a look at what one budget cut at the city level will mean: fewer childcare slots, less school prep for kids and a…
Activists in New York are playing a role in the democratic surge sweeping the Middle East. While technology’s part of the story, local advocates say, human networks are what really…
At a local museum, a community bears witness to the black experience on Staten Island, as some of its last remaining historic structures are landmarked.
The 2007 closure of a Pfizer factory in Brooklyn was a milestone in manufacturing’s retreat from the borough. Chapter three of “Brooklyn: The Borough Behind The Brand” looks at what…
Some students transferring to public school arrive with no educational records because a private or parochial school has withheld them until tuition debts are paid.
Few would deny that state-run juvenile detention facilities are flawed. But a Bloomberg bid to take control of some of those sites has raised a new set of issues.
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