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Water Fight

One of the state’s most respected environmentalists has issued a scathing report that questions the city’s ability to safeguard its water supply.

Housing Off-Line

A computer “one-stop shop” with data from five different city agencies for every residential building in New York City may never be released to the community groups for which it…

City Lit: To Market, To Market?

A book review of The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century, edited by Thomas D. Boston and Catherine L. Ross, Transaction Publishers, 1997, 357 pages,…

Lone Ranger No More

For decades the Regional Plan Association padded the corridors of power and flexed muscle for its sweeping visions of regional development. But now the group must court communities if it…

Finding Factory Funding

Investment from the city’s municipal and union pension funds could help spark a revival of New York’s beleaguered manufacturing base, but try telling that to City Hall.

Courting Calamity

The tenants supposedly won the rent wars last summer. But a pair of landlord-bonanza Housing Court laws whisked quietly through Albany could result in 33,000 new evictions next year.

Central Holding

Alternative-to-incarceration programs reform criminals, save money and open up prison cells for more dangerous felons. So why has the city created a new screening process?

Anatomy of a Sweetheart Deal

The Jose de Diego Beekman Houses in Mott Haven has been a sweetheart to everybody–except its besieged tenants. Billionaires like Bob Tisch made it a quiet hideaway for tax shelter…

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