Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Legal Services chapter has high-paid managers and a $1.4 million budget, but until recently it had zero staff attorneys. How one of New York’s poorest communities is struggling with…
The teenagers of Lodi, New Jersey thought they had heard enough about the fatal factory explosion that killed five people in their town. Then they interviewed Jim Gannon.
A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
After years of haggling, housing desegregation is finally a done deal in New York City’s unofficial sixth borough. Five years after 200 poor families moved out of the projects and…
