A book review of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott with Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Henry Holt, 1998, 231 pages, $22.
Homesteaders in two East New York buildings have staved off the elements, drug dealers and hopelessness for 10 years. Now, the city wants them out–though no one is sure why.
Bronx 2000 developed an ambitious project to turn scrap wooden packing and pallets into furniture and jobs. But bad luck and trouble finding outside investors has combined to push the…
When Kevin Heldman went undercover at Woodhull’s psychiatric unit, he wanted to experience how low-income people were treated. In 179 hours as a mental patient, he found little care and…
The tenements of the Lower East Side went up a century ago with cheap construction and shaky foundations. Today, a new housing boom threatens to bring these buildings down, one…
