Uncategorized CITY BANKING ON HOUSING A deal in the works between the city housing agency and a handful of banks could soon give the city more affordable housing.
Uncategorized HARLEM TENANTS AND SUPERS FEAR ACQUISITION A couple of months after their apartment buildings changed hands, tenants and their supers say their new landlord’s actions could only mean one thing — he wants them out.
Uncategorized DRUGS FOR EVERYBODY Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried wants to create a statewide prescription drug insurance program.
Uncategorized PARK PLANT HEARINGS The Assembly is holding hearings today in Manhattan to vet the city’s controversial proposal to put a filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park.
Uncategorized TURN IN YOUR UNIFORM Comptroller William Thompson Jr. has a suggestion for city agencies looking to cut: Go civilian.
Uncategorized SPREADING BLAME The city workers’ union complains that while agencies are laying off its members, they’re giving raises to managers.
Uncategorized EARNING YOUR EITC Details are emerging on the IRS’s push to make people who apply for the EITC get approval months before filing.
Uncategorized WHAT'S NEXT? With the budget battle all but closed upstate, two New York City fights are bound to heat up fast.
Uncategorized Training Time A Council bill offers education to ambitious welfare recipients–if the mayor doesn’t block it.
Uncategorized City Lit: Bronx Tales Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian LeBlanc, reviewed by Clarence A. Haynes, and Do
