In January 1999, a team of independent education experts recommended that Sarah J. Hale high school in Boerum Hill be “phased out,” citing low student academic performance and poor attendance.
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…
The city is launching a visionary plan to house foster kids in the same neighborhoods they’ve been taken from. But for it to succeed, foster parents will have to get…
After the Diallo verdict and Dorismond killing, a group of religious leaders kept the peace among furious Bronx residents. Now they want something in return: real community policing.
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…
Competing visions for the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have lead to charges of racism, battle for control of the lease, and suits and coutersuits.
Landlords assumed Asian tenants would up with some of their ugliest tricks, including threatening letters, illegal evictions and dilapidated apartments. They were wrong.