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.

Now that the feds have vowed to make sure welfare applicants get the benefits they’re entitled to, the Urban Justice Center plans to double-check.

Pataki promotes state and self.

Tenant organizing now comes at a price: $50 a unit.

In this year’s budget, the city is trying to simultaneously kill off two programs that help welfare recipients on the verge of eviction.

Put together a court deadline and some new discussions in front of City Council Speaker Peter Vallone–and you still don’t have much hope for a new lead paint bill from…

Critics of thc city’s Neighborhood Entrepreneuers Program came out in force to complain at a City Council hearing last week.