Justice In Fragile Families, How Best To Protect Babies? A new policy fans debate among child welfare professionals about if and when to remove newborns from their mothers.
Health Uncategorized HIV Education Championed To Stem Prison Epidemic Rates of HIV and Hepatitis C are sky-high in state prisons; a state bill aims to help.
Government The Fall And Rise Of The South Bronx This look back at the successes and missteps of the Banana Kelly Community Development Association offers lessons for community organizers everywhere.
Government Housing and Homelessness In Far Rockaway, Pretty Beach Meets Housing Bust The Rockaway Peninsula’s tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fated spec buildings disintegrating next to successful new housing development, and a rezoning belatedly attempting to instill order.
ARTS and CULTURE Bronx Boys of Summer Hunt For Space To Play The borough’s parks are all being renovated at once, so local teams are sharing crowded turf.
Justice Battered Twice?: Victims Offer Critique Of Courts A compilation of the experiences of 75 survivors of domestic violence shows that many feel Family Court adds to their families’ problems.
Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Toward A Comprehensive Response To Housing Needs ‘I want to take us back to that time where we are a leader in affordable housing,’ says DHCR Commissioner Deborah VanAmerongen.
Economy Housing and Homelessness It's Not Just Academic: Union Rights On Campus A new book tells the tale of unionization at NYU — and why it could not succeed on a ‘corporate’ campus.
ARTS and CULTURE Economy Housing and Homelessness Why 'The Other Half' Lived — And Lives On A book explores the ideology and influence of Jacob Riis.
Government From Bellevue To Bklyn: Homeless Center To Move Critics pan a plan to close the city’s main intake center for homeless men and lease it to developers.
