This holiday season, more than 200,000 letters from poor
New Yorkers will plead with Santa Claus for toys, clothes, even school supplies. But how many will get what they wish…
When government offers subsidies to corporations, West Coast communities have won by playing hardball at the bargaining table. Now New York’s getting in on the action.
The city says the new landscape of historically industrial areas of Williamsburg will be “mixed use.” But high-priced housing won’t just sound the death knell for existing industry–it will weaken…