Hector Figueroa leads a new wave of savvy organizers reinventing, and radicalizing, the city’s union for janitors and doormen–provoking everyone from his own members to the Manhattan DA.
Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
Big law firms are donating their legal expertise to help the less fortunate–the City of New York, that is, as it fights high-stakes civil rights lawsuits.
