Shhh. The mayor’s newest commissioner, Department of Homeless Services boss Martin Oesterreich, is getting a reputation as an accessible, open, honest guy.
Governor Pataki has included plenty of social service cuts in his proposed budget, but an increase to an education program has Democrats just as miffed.
Palm trees, surf and endless summers aren’t the only reasons to envy La-La Land. Some of its urban policies aren’t bad, either. From a thriving manufacturing sector to a living-wage…
Connect the findings of a handful of new reports and you discover that in New York, the deck is stacked against getting off of welfare and into a job–and the…
Goshen Secure Center has all the trappings of a maximum-security prison for teenage boys. But the kids being sent there these days are in for minor offenses like a fist…
It’s taken a while, but the city has quietly started to move some of the worst housing in the South Bronx into the hands of private and nonprofit housing groups.
A three-year-old deal to house formerly homeless tenants with moderate-income renters in a Park Slope building is still on the books–but bureaucratic rules have kept half the units open.
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