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LEAD ASTRAY

Council Speaker Peter Vallone and landlord allies keep revising their new lead paint bill. Tenant activists doubt they’ll like whatever is in the final draft.

DINNERS AND LOSERS

The need for food pantries and soup kitchens rose 36 percent in New York City last year, and programs can’t keep up with the demand.

Switch Hitter

Green activist Judith Enck has exchanged her picket signs for a set inside the State Attorney General’s environmental office.

The Wrong Haul

As the city moves to dump its garbage on Red Hook, the beleaguered neighborhood fights back–with a little help from its friends up and down the waterfront.

Eternal Wanderer

In November, City Limits readers were introduced to Caryn, a 16-year-old living in a city-run East New York group home. Her murder in April ended a life lived on the…

City Lit: A Fruitful Searc

A book review of Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modem Brooklyn, by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias, University of Iowa Press, 1999, 512 pages,…

Response Time

Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a…

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