New York’s main shopping drags are coming back. But many small commercial strips that could make low-income neighborhoods worth walking again remain bodega badlands. The city’s solution is suburban-style mini-malls.…

The city asks to excuse New York from federal public housing regulations–and tenants say no way.

There’s clamor of an upcoming garbage-dump crisis rising from the city’s waterfront neighborhoods.

A book review of 8-Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters by Gini Sikes, Anchor Doubleday, 1997, 276 pp., $23.95.

Budget cuts devastate youth programs–and their participants.

A Brooklyn Congressman from the West Side of Manhattan has a worker-friendly plan for resurrecting a dead port. So why is everybody talking like Jerry Nadler’s just proposed Westway 2000?

A new report lays out the costs of the Governor’s proposed budget cuts for higher education.

A federal judge has ruled against a tenant group assertion that housing court in the city is stacked against renters.

State Republicans have been taking aim at the city’s rent regulation laws, and rules about the right to renew a lease are the latest issue on the table.