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.
In mid-September, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders got together to issue a declaration that housing should be considered a “sacred right.”
If Flushing’s multilingual collage of signs appeals to you, take a Polaroid–along with Goldfingers and dairy farms, it could soon be a relic of Queens past.
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.
A new set of contracts with trash-hauling trucking companies show that the interim plan to move the garbage via roads to New Jersey may last a bit longer than advertised.
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