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…
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.
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.
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?
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…
Twenty years ago, Assemblyman Al Vann promised to lead a grand coalition of blacks and Puerto Ricans that would run the city right–from the left. Now he’s lucky to hold…
The city has been working for years to create a computer system that would give community groups access to info on every address in the city–but it may never see…
The state’s banking regulators want to widen the definition of “low-income,” but 83 New York-based organizations and public officials say the cost to poor neighborhoods is too high.
