When City Limits readers met Tiffany Stewart in the November 1998 issue, she was trying to get out of a city-run group home. Last month she was murdered.
For more than ten years, an odd legal precident provided a few hundred dollars a month toward rent for families on welfare. A new ruling says that money isn’t good…
States are racing to deliver the benefits of a new federal job-training law to the unemployed. Except New York, that is, where efforts are stuck in the starting gate.
For vendors, Flatbush Avenue is a business school of the streets, where dwindling customers, vigilant cops and cutthroat competition are all in a day’s work.
Just when an economic resurgence is refueling Williamsburg manufacturing, new rivals prevent its expansion–by living in lofts instead of working in lofts.
