With the 100th anniversary of New York City’s five-borough government looming next year, one reformer has a downsizing dream to change the city’s basic political structure.

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.