Economy Justice Cloudy Summer Ahead For Teens Seeking Jobs The city program that helps match young people with jobs faces more demand, but fewer available slots.
Economy Justice Inspected and Corrected: New Focus on Nonprofits Providing foster care, drug counseling, senior services and more, groups holding hundreds of millions in city contracts are facing increased scrutiny.
ARTS and CULTURE Government OPTING OUT FOR AFFORDABILITY Comptroller vows city pension investments will steer clear of “predatory equity” as HPD blocks a controversial deal.
Economy A Show of Hands: City Workers Resist Tracking As more agencies implement a controversial biometric system for city employees, new questions emerge about the costs, contractors and their ties to city government.
Government CITY MOVES TOWARD LOCATING AGENCIES AT NEW WTC Deal gives Ground Zero developer Silverstein a choice to lock the city into a 15-year lease for space in one of the new World Trade Center towers.
Economy FEWER LOCK-UPS, ENOUGH MONEY? As the state plans to close six juvenile correctional facilities and embrace community-based juvenile justice, some wonder who’ll pay for it.
Government Justice Retail Workers Celebrate Million-Dollar Victory Will the organizing model that won back wages and overtime for shop employees have staying power?
Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Mayor, Council At Odds Over Voucher Tenant Bill The administration squares off against City Council on protecting Section 8 tenants.
Economy Fresh Greens Or Grandeur May Come To Fort Greene Come next month, the quietly decaying Admiral’s Row may round a bend toward some kind of redevelopment.
ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness Making Eye Contact: Seeing The Overlooked In a new photo exhibit, the homeless look a lot like the rest of us.
