With city welfare checks for rent six months behind, more than 50 residents of the White House Hotel are on the verge of being evicted from the Bowery SRO.
This year’s budget yielded a $70 billion surplus, but only a few new dollars for New York City’s underfunded social service, education and environmental sectors.
When Jason Turner was hired to revamp New York City’s welfare system, he brought his ideological convictions and those of his closest advisors with him.
When Browning Ferris Industries closed its South Bronx medical waste incinerator in June 1997, locals celebrated their victory. But the party may have been premature.
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