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A 10th-grade global studies class. The Children's Zone's ultimate goal is to get as many of Harlem's youth through college as possible. The Promise Academies have yet to graduate a…

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Nov 2009

ARTS and CULTURE In Depth

Becoming a Deejay, Leaving the P-J's

Life is tough in the projects and on the streets, but leavened with music and friendship in this crop of new city books.

ByCurtis Stephen 0Comments

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Oct 2009

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Investigations

More Than Words? Bloomberg and Race

The mayor has earned admiration from many quarters for improving the tenor of race relations. But the impact of his policies on blacks and Latinos give fodder to fans and…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government

Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana

Excerpt from the latest issue of City Limits Investigates: Marijuana has gotten cheaper in New York in the past decade with an estimated 416,000 city residents smoking it.

BySean Gardiner 3Comments

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Jul 2009

Housing and Homelessness

The Forty Years War

The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Justice

The Meth Myth: A Drug that's Always on its Way

Like riding mowers or line dancing, meth—whether called “ice,” “tina,” “crank” or any of its dozen other names—has never really caught on in New York City.

BySean Gardiner 2Comments

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Jul 2009

Justice

City Limits estimates that the yearly cost to government for investigation, contraband seizures, arrests, judicial processing, incarceration, parole hearings and probation services for all those arrested in drug cases in…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

05

Jul 2009

Government Justice

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

Despite the extraordinarily low crime levels and the near total absence of drugs from the city’s public discourse these days, nearly a quarter of a million people in New York…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Government Justice

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of…

BySean Gardiner 3Comments

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Jul 2009

Justice

Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1

Sometime in 1975, Colombian drug dealers, who were already well established in the world’s marijuana market with their high-grade Colombian Gold, wrested control of the cocaine importation business from Cuban…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

The Great Escape

Becoming a Deejay, Leaving the P-J's

More Than Words? Bloomberg and Race

Hooked: Four decades of drug war in New York City: Marijuana

The Forty Years War

The Meth Myth: A Drug that's Always on its Way

In the Drug War, a Stalemate?

Today's Drug War: Marijuana and Mass Arrests

A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack

Cocaine: A Club Drug Becomes Enemy No. 1

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