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.
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 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,…
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…
The most lucrative welfare-to-work job, as former Giuliani advisor Richard Schwartz has learned, is finding work for other people. A new breed of employment brokers lands contracts by connecting government…
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…
