The city’s Catholic hierarchy is resisting a reform promoted by outsiders–parochial schools, born in Chicago, that succeed by putting poor teenagers to work.
Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
CUNY thought it had a sweet deal: an exclusive city contract to distribute federal jobs dollars to training schools. But first it’s going to have to pay the bills on…
