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Woe Houses

Leaky roofs and shoddy construction have created huge headaches for New York City Housing Partnership homeowners in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Now they’ve started a revolt, and the city may…

Economy

BATTLING HEALTH UNIONS BURY THE HATCHET WITH PACT

A nurse job-training initiative signals the end of a long-running animosity between two of New York City’s strongest health-care unions.

Government

CityLit: In Bed With Ed

A review of Sleeping With the Mayor: A True Story, by John Jiler, Hungry Mind Press, 1997, $25.

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

HOW COME YOU CAN NEVER FIND A GOOD ICOP WHEN YOU NEED ONE?

Tenant activists says the public housing tenants council is under the thumb of the New York City Housing Authority.

Economy

QUEENS LABOR LORD BACKS BAD BOY BEVONA IN BALLOT BATTLE

Gus Bevona is fighting a judge’s order that says his side rigged the local’s election, and he has a surprising ally in the battle.

Housing and Homelessness

TAX LIEN-TWO

Thanks to advocate pressure, the City Council agreed to extend the city’s right to sell distressed housing leins for only two years.

Government

New Marshal Plan Flops

The new City Marshals’ Handbook has 14 additional sections stressing courtesy, professionalism and respect. Too bad they aren’t enforced.

Government

HUD PULLS PLUG ON BAILOUT OF BATTERED BRONX BUILDINGS

Washington may kill a deal for tenant control of one of the city’s worst housing projects because it covers the tracks of the negligent landlords, as reported in the latest…

Economy

RUTH-LESS LABOR'S “RIGHT” IN S.I.

The union’s aren’t on board for Ruth Messinger’s mayoral run, and they’re doing stranger things still on Staten Island.

ARTS and CULTURE

RFK ISN'T MIELE-MOUTHED

City environmental chief Joel Miele and Riverkeeper Robert Kennedy Jr. trade stats in an argument about the health of the city’s water supply.

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