A book review of Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City, By Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZierega Wall, Yale University Press, 374 pages, $39.95.
At a time when New Yorkers are flooding the city’s food pantries and soup kitchens at record levels, the public schools’ free breakfast program has some of the lowest attendance…
What started as a simple paperwork error several years ago ended in eviction last week for a tenant of one of Hope Community’s affordable apartments in East Harlem.
In what could be Mayor Bloomberg’ s first comment on the Giuliani administration’s welfare policy, the new welfare commissioner has signaled she may back away from the old regime’s plan…
The city is still not providing adequate housing to homeless New Yorkers with AIDS, said a panel of judges last week, and the Bloomberg administration may soon have to pay.
Families will not lose their rental subsidies when they reach their five-year limit on federal public assistance, the state welfare office announced last month. Not all of it, anyway.
Dreams of a park in the sky may soon be dashed. An appellate court recently lifted the restraining order that blocked the city from tearing down the High Line, the…
