The 2000 census numbers have already cost New York State two seats in Congress, as well as access to funding and crucial services. But city kids stand to lose a…
Last December, a group of teens from the Bronx’s Schomburg Satellite Academy took their after-school project all the way to the Times Square offices of the New York Times Metro…
For the fourth consecutive year, neighbors, local politicians and black-clad art types came to an art show created by shelter residents–women, between 45 and 80 years old, with a history…
High-tech hotshots made a bundle during the boom, and now they’re giving it away. But not for free: As venture philanthropy trickles through the nonprofit world, the MBA mentality could…
Like all hospitals and clinics that treat the poor, Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center is being walloped by changes in Medicaid. Its doctors pray that a medical makeover can get…
For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream…
A hot real estate market and stagnant state budgets add up to evictions for mentally ill people who’ve been enjoying life on their own–and a measure of dignity–in private apartments.
Unemployment insurance is just a phone call away–if you speak English or Spanish. As the state closes its unemployment offices, many immigrant workers need not apply.
Battered families need a safe place to run to. But with domestic violence refuges full, the city is funneling families into the homeless shelter system, with no protection from the…
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