After four long years of waiting for their homes to be spruced up, residents of Medgar Evers Houses in Bed-Stuy have received the go-ahead to begin their ambitious plans to rehab the buildings with the help of some non-profit partners.
Once respected as a firebrand union leader for public hospital workers, James Butler is facing a dramatic grassroots member rebellion as he nears 30 years on the job.
Eight years of Giuliani is enough to turn anyone into a would-be urban planner. But as the new slew of candidates takes on the city’s toughest choices, they may regret getting what they wished for.
A few years after successfully ridding their building of their negligent landlord, many residents of the federally-subsidized Medgar Evers houses may soon be forced to leave their homes themselves, as an administrative requirement at HUD leaves them to choose between taking on a huge rent hike or the street.
In Flatbush’s Survivor, the island whose politics matter isn’t Brooklyn.
They clean bedpans, do laundry and take care of children, all for a song. Meet the people who might be the biggest players in the mayoral campaign: the thousands making pitiful wages working for New York City. Plus, see how other cities’ living wage laws are faring.
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks of forced labor.
New York’s income gap continues to widen.
A new report gives the rundown on the state of New York State’s economy–and the news ain’t good.
Medicaid managed care promised savings with dignity. Instead, it’s fraught with pitfalls for the poor, who find it’s up to them to hunt down health care.
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