For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream…
Thanks to term limits, scads of city offices will be up for grabs this fall–but that doesn’t mean your favorite neighborhood progressive candidate is a shoo-in. Three political kingmakers give…
Pithy welfare advocate Liz Krueger throws her hat in the ring against long-term Republican State Senator Roy Goodman on Manhattan’s East Side. The GOP’s Senate majority may lie in the…
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination…
With little money and little connection to political fundraising, residents in New York City’s poor neighborhoods barely register in a survey of campaign contributions.
Eight decrepit apartments in East Harlem are back in the hands of the federal housing department after the landlord gave up control. The feds would like to tear them down,…
For years, vocational education was the school system’s detention room. New attention to academic standards is changing that–but preparing students for work has dropped by the wayside.