Economy
CITY BLOCKS LIKE SHOPPING MALLS
David Giles |
A new book helps make sense of un-cosmopolitan currents washing over Gotham.
Housing and Homelessness
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Daniel Treiman |
A Columbia professor challenges conventional wisdom in his new book.
Bronx
Zoning Currents Move East:
Queens Goes Inclusionary
Jillian Jonas |
Plan for new construction employs the tactic of giving developers more in order to give residents more.
Housing and Homelessness
FIERCE RESISTANCE
City Limits |
LGBT group launches Cop Watch program to improve interactions with police.
Housing and Homelessness
REPAIRING THE HUD SCANDAL, CITY SELLS FIRST PROPERTIES
Bob Roberts and Matt Pacenza |
Several years after mortgage lenders and appraisers were found ripping off the feds and letting hundreds of apartment buildings deteriorate, the city has announced its first round of plans for fixing up the properties.
Housing and Homelessness
CO-OPING WITH EVICTION
Annia Ciezadlo |
A legal loophole is letting units in one Harlem co-op be sold out from beneath longtime residents who can’t afford to swing with the booming housing market.
Housing and Homelessness
KIDS LOSE OUT IN BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF HARD LOCKS
Miriam Perez |
When the Board of Education closes Brooklyn’s Sarah J. Hale high school in a few weeks, the student body will be dispersed–and some wonder where they’ll land.
In its ongoing drive to shut down schools that don’t make the grade, the Board of Education has flunked one school that parents and students say should have been given a chance. When Sarah J. Hale high school in Boerum Hill closes its doors at the end of this month, it will be closed for good. Last year, a team of independent education experts recommended that the school be “phased out,” citing low student academic performance and poor attendance.
Housing and Homelessness
IN NYCHA SWITCHEROO, HARLEM TENANTS LOSE HOPE VI
Alyssa Katz |
After much work and negotiation, the 322 families of Harlem’s A. Philip Randolph Houses thought they had a plan to rebuild their 36 run-down tenement buildings. But the city says the funding must change.
in Harlem. This winter, they learned that they would be displaced for a long time, and that some of them weren’t going to be able to come back.
Housing and Homelessness
FISH STORE BUYS BAKERY, HARLEMITES SAY DEAL STINKS
Kathleen McGowan |
The Harlem Restoration Project had a decade to close the deal to redevelop a huge bakery on West 125th St., but when the final decision was made last week, upscale grocery Citarella walked away with the deed.
