Staffing is so short that four Bronx branches of the public library system stayed shuttered one recent Saturday. Librarians blame rock-bottom salaries.
A new study presents the numbers on the high-cost, high-sleaze tactics of predatory lending–and shows that even wealthy blacks often get saddled with these overpriced loans.
Deregulation of the electric industry has unleashed a flood of proposals for new power plants. It also makes the job of fighting them that much easier for a coalition of…
Waterfront neighborhoods have been dumping grounds for everything from waste stations to sewage plants. Residents are saying no more–and small businesses are getting caught in the crossfire.
To its Harlem neighbors, P.S. 90 is just another abandoned monstrosity. But a group of community developers believes it holds answers to a pair of the era’s most vexing problems:…
Charitable foundations want to improve life in poor neighborhoods. So do community organizers. So why don’t more philanthropists put their dollars behind the grassroots?
