This fall a Brooklyn neighborhood will not only welcome a new courthouse–it will become a laboratory. The experiment? Whether criminal justice can be as pervasive as crime.
Welfare mothers have a hard time finding child care for their kids when they get a workfare slot–the mayor’s new plan to add homeless families to the program is fraught…
Local job trainers are on the outs with the city’s welfare agency, replaced by a dozen national for-profit welfare-to-work companies, a few of which ring alarm bells with industry insiders.
When the NYPD designated Valentine Avenue as a “model block,” residents hoped it would mean safer streets. Instead, they found themselves fighting crime on their own.
Brooklyn tenant organizers hope that where rent laws can’t protect tenants, embarrassing their landlords may succeed. With old-fashioned pressure tactics, they’re fighting evictions in the streets.
Curmudgeonly commentary, an enemies list and Texas-sized lies–Senator Phil Gramm is out to destroy the Community Reinvestment Act, and even the banks can’t stop him.
Merchants in Brownsville are paying extra taxes to get a better business climate. So far, though, all they’re getting is promises from the Business Improvement District they fund.
