Residents of the Pleasant East Apartments in East Harlem were happy to hear that HUD took their buildings from a negligent landlord–until they were told the complex would be destroyed.
What do a new cardiac center in Rochester and upgrades to the cross-country skiing trails at Lake Placid have in common? They’re both funded by federal Community Development Block Grants,…
The latest chapter in the battle to unionize the nation’s oldest CDC starred a former union official who stopped by to tell workers they shouldn’t join his old local.
Targeting new terrain to cure its housing crunch, Williamsburg’s Hasidic community is using a legal loophole to build up Bed-Stuy–driving neighborhood residents to court or out altogether.
When workers at the legendary Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation began to organize a union, management got busy, too, hiring a firm with a reputation for union-busting. Is this any way to…
