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Ebone Ryals, a resident at the Towers for many decades, helps Janey and Letitia plant. Photo by: Hannah Rappleye A day at River Park Towers reveals a lot about what low-income New…

ByHannah Rappleye 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Uncategorized

How Fares Welfare?

While the mild post-9/11 recession was a dry run, the current downturn is the first real test of the safety net since welfare reform.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2010

The Search for the Smoking Gun

During four decades of debate over the causes of black-male joblessness and unemployment, there have been two broad schools of thought. There were those who blamed the problem on the…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Cops May Change Frisk Tactics

After years of complaints from some residents, the NYPD and NYCHA are meeting with tenants about police policies in public housing.

ByHannah Rappleye 0Comments

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Sep 2009

Government

City Wants Answers, Input On Upstate Drill Plan

A huge underground reserve of natural gas is luring fuel companies to upstate New York. But local officials and advocates are worried about what the drilling will do to the…

BySarah Crean 0Comments

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Sep 2009

Uncategorized

Green Taxi Case Heads Toward Showdown

The Bloomberg administration’s hopes for a hybrid-car taxi fleet may hinge on whether a federal appeals court thinks a city plan passes Constitutional muster.

ByHashim Rahman 0Comments

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Jul 2009

Justice

Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters

Just because the drug trade and the law enforcement crusade against it aren’t as obvious as they were in the past doesn’t mean drugs and the war against them have…

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

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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

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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

Life in the Towers: 'I'm Tired Of Ducking Bullets'

The Search for the Smoking Gun

Cops May Change Frisk Tactics

City Wants Answers, Input On Upstate Drill Plan

Green Taxi Case Heads Toward Showdown

Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters

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

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