Ronald Richter just got what the mayor calls a “thankless” job—running the Administration for Children’s Services. We asked ACS’s sometime allies and frequent critics in the advocacy world what Richter’s…
A new state law prohibits the sale of Nutcracker in hair salons and barbershops. But many hair cutters back the ban, saying the measure will snip away at a stigma.
It’s hard for many New Yorkers to find an apartment they can afford. Those getting out of jail or prison face even steeper obstacles—especially those who need not just a…
The mandatory partial evacuation announced this afternoon is the first in history for a city that has always been extremely vulnerable to—if rarely visited by—hurricanes.
The Urban Jobs Act would provide $20 million for services to unemployed young people. Amid partisan rancor, will the idea survive Congress? Against record youth unemployment, will it make a…
Critics on the left say the mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative misses the mark, and those on the right say it reflects old thinking. But a former City Hall adviser writes…
The Housing Authority’s Chairman John Rhea warned of 3,000 layoffs unless the federal government moves to close a billion-dollar gap in public housing funding.
The crisis in the national housing market has slipped from the front pages. But in New York’s neighborhoods of color, the twin crises of foreclosures and joblessness are still big…
Amid a push to ban Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Co-op, opponents of the move are scrutinizing the organizations behind the boycott movement.
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