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.
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.
A recent report shows that kids are still sleeping on the floors of the city’s homeless shelter intake office–despite a new law prohibiting the practice.
They make a living driving bigshots around, but the city’s “black car” chauffeurs are only being driven one place: into debt. A union push to organize them has yielded unprecedented…
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.
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…
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