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Signs of the Times

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.

TRASH AND CARRY

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.

IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN

Ostensibly about a new contract for the executive director, the slow motion break-up of the city’s environmental justice coalition has deeper issues at its core.

ONLY THE LOAN-LY

According to a new report by ACORN, predatory loans–which are overly expensive and designed to drive a borrower into default–are all too pervasive in low-income communities.

THE TAXMAN COMETH

Tax deliquent properties in New York also tend to be poorly maintained properties–sometimes dangerously so. After years of letting deadbeats slide, the city has begun to push for changes.

THE CLOCK Y-NDS DOWN

Facing repairs that could cost $15 million, the YMCA is planning on selling its building on 23rd Street and evicting the low-income residents.

IT'S NOT IN OUR GENES

Negligence on the part of city and state officials has allowed New York City to fall far behind in the race to attract biotech firms, a new report has found.

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