The activists, laborers and hippies who’ve made abandoned buildings into viable homes were the scourge of City Hall. Now Loisaida’s last outlaws have become government-sponsored homeowners.
Another chapter in the history of racial discrimination in Wiliamsburg’s public housing developments opens as the city agrees to offer black and Hispanic applicants a better shot at apartments.
The Queens Democratic Party finally recognized its borough’s growing diversity, endorsing a South Asian candidate for public office for the first time.
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
The nation’s school testing frenzy is failing qualified minority teachers, with little proof that high scores on certification exams have anything to do with good teaching.
Her boyfriend beat her so badly she had to be hospitalized. Then the city took her kids because of it. Meet the mom who’s turning a legal fight into a…
The Commodore, the last of the string of vaudeville theaters that once lined Brooklyn’s Broadway, is for sale. Local residents are asking the city to landmark the building before it,…
