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.
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.
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…
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