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?

Grappling with the digital divide.

Cavalier corporations let pregnant women take a drug that gave their daughters cancer. One survivor turned her story into a film that’s become an organizing tool for toxics, labor and…

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.