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Loisaida’s Next Stage

The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is a cavernous schoolhouse crammed with theater, painting, sculpture and dance. Where else can you catch a genuine Punch-and-Rudy show, or the first New…

Isle Fly Away

Planners who want to build a park on Governor’s Island, New York Harbor’s grassy knoll, are fighting to keep the bucolic bastion out of the commercial mainstream.

Day Carelessness

The city is putting welfare moms to work without helping them find decent child care. The kids will suffer now–and in the future.

Good Works… Without Pay

City agencies can’t find enough clerical jobs or brooms to keep workfare workers busy. That’s why Mayor Giuliani’s planning to export thousands of them to neighborhood nonprofits.

The Family Fix

An innovative new drug treatment and family counseling center grows on the site of one of Alphabet City’s most notorious cocaine-dealing bodegas.

Election '97: Whatcha Gonna Do?

We asked the three Democratic mayoral candidates what they plan to do about five issues of vital import to the city’s neighborhoods. Messinger wants a real welfare-to-work program. Albanese is…

Zero Tolerance

New York cops and prosecutors have begun applying high-pressure law enforcement tactics to child welfare cases. It makes for good press, but a City Limits investigation finds that some guiltless…

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