Uncategorized CITY SUES TO CONVERT TOURIST HOTEL INTO SRO A lawsuit alleges that an Upper West Side landlord illegally turned a former single-room occupancy hotel into a pricey tourist destination.
Uncategorized BENEFITS: PAPER OR PLASTIC? A new city system to use debit cards for food stamps and welfare benefits relies too much on suburban style supermarkets and ATMs, critics charge.
Uncategorized HOUSING DEPARTMENT YIELDS TO LEGAL TEMP-TATION With staffing cut to the bone, the city’s housing department has brought in a handful of new lawyers to help for a few months.
Uncategorized Clinically Oppressed Pregnant immigrants are shunning prenatal care for fear of deportation. What are they afraid of?
Uncategorized BOOK 'IM, SAYS IRS The bookkeeper for many NYC nonprofits is also protester who gives his IRS payments to good causes to make his point. It could land him in jail.
Uncategorized OCEANHILL SEES SEA CHANGE: NO MORE HOUSING The Oceanhill-Brownsville Tenants Association holds the title to thousands of low-income apartment units in Brooklyn, but after years of working with the city, the nonprofit is getting out of the…
Uncategorized Contracted Out The Administration of Children Services change to geographic representation might shut out special need clients.
Uncategorized Philip St. Georges, 1951-1998 Friends mourn the loss of one of the pioneers of urban homesteading.
