Officials said street vendors had to leave New York’s shopping districts because they were bad for business. Now the sidewalks are clear–not just of vendors, but customers, too.
Liz Krueger has battled bureaucrats, empowered the poor and prevailed in a tough campaign. But can she turn the most thankless elected job in New York into a force for…
After years of pushing for the construction of a few new schools in the long-unused Kingsbridge Armory–with little response from the mayor’s office–some Bronx residents recently got their first sign…
Just as the city’s new recycling laws start to work against them, some homeless New Yorkers may soon lose another resource: We Can, a unique nonprofit recycling depot in Hell’s…
After decades of battling with Lower East Side residents who hijacked vacant city buildings to make them their own, the city has agreed to help these renegades turn their squats…
Months of conflict within one of the city’s most prominent community development groups recently came to a head when the board of the Mid Bronx Desperadoes replaced its longtime president,…
While the City Council calls for building a massive public market on the old Trade Center site, a similar project has been proposed for Hunts Point, where the area’s best…
A few months after giving school superintendents the green light to craft their own federally financed literacy programs, state education officials have gone ahead on their own and hired the…
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