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Code Blues

Slum landlords can rest easy. The corps of city lawyers that defends tenants against code violations has been slashed from 45 attorneys to 18 in the last four years.

Independence Day

After six years of nurturing and financial support from a constellation of foundations, a Bronx community coalition strikes out on its own.

Split Decision

Immigrant groups that have used school boards as a portal into politics were relieved when the feds shot down a plan to dismantle the current election system. But confusion about…

Green and Lean

An ambitious architect is using innovations in energy-efficient construction to transform low-income housing.

City Lit: Planet Wort

A book review of Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations, By Richard C. Longworth, Contemporary Books, 1998, 293 pages, $24.95.

Permission Slip

After years of watching the state environmental agency say yes to industrial polluters looking to put plants in their neighborhoods, New York’s minority residents are finally getting a forum where…

Parking Not

Demonstrators camp out in a parking spot, protesting street space reserved exclusively for Goldman Sachs limos.

WARD OF THE STATE

Judge Robert J. Ward heard a groundbreaking class-action case against the city’s child welfare agency, but does it make sense for him to preside over all similar lawsuits?

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