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…
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…
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,…
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.
