AIDS community bids farewell to two celebrated leaders, Keith Cylar and Joseph Bostic.
Seeking a number on the homeless who’ve passed
Sixteen months after the Brad H. settlement mandated better care, Rikers Island monitors report that compliance is still uneven at best.
New legislation would help the city understand where, when, and how homeless people die–if the Bloomberg administration lets it happen.
Critics say the number of mentally ill prisoners tracked by a new Rikers database is far too low.
Four out of five kids in foster care have a parent with a drug problem. There is an alternative: a once-controversial program that keeps mothers and children together during treatment. But how far can New York City expand the work Mayor Giuliani tried to destroy?
Two decades have passed. Medicine has advanced. People are living longer. But what will happen when an intricate and expensive safety net can’t keep up?
Hector Figueroa leads a new wave of savvy organizers reinventing, and radicalizing, the city’s union for janitors and doormen–provoking everyone from his own members to the Manhattan DA.
In its quest to find cheaper ways to get rid of the city’s trash, the Bloomberg administration is investing in a study which could revolutionize garbage disposal in the five boroughs — by composting.
With Governor Pataki on the case, renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines could generate a big chunk of New York’s electricity. But first, bureaucrats and utilities have to stop getting in the way of our green future.
