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.
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.
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