Housing Court underwent a ground-up restructuring last year, and a review crowed that the changes were a success. Last week, a group of tenant lawyers begged to disagree.
By requiring environmental review of a scheme to dump thousands of tons of chemicals in a upstate reservoir, the state may have scuttled the city’s drining water plan.
If, by chance, you were idly wondering what Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Locklear and Miss USA 1999 might have to contribute to the struggle for community change, listen up.
School choice is supposed to reward success and punish failure–and that’s exactly happening at the lackluster I.S. 70 in Chelsea. But when a sub-par school gets shut down, it’s not…
Neighborhood environmental justice groups have labored in obscurity for years, picketing polluters and tilting at transfer stations. Now, as national evironmental organizations are eyeing their street-level work, some wonder whether…
For years, the New York Equity Fund has been the financial middleman for virtually every low-income housing project in town. Thats’s meant profits for the fund, little choice for developers…
A landmark lawsuit claims New York City schools deserve more state funding than they now receive. One high school class is watching the proceedings closely, trying to learn how the…
For the first time, New York City police, firefighters, sanitation workers and corrections officers unions will back their own slate of candidates for City Council. They will have the money…
