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.
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…
Landlords assumed Asian tenants would up with some of their ugliest tricks, including threatening letters, illegal evictions and dilapidated apartments. They were wrong.
Targeting new terrain to cure its housing crunch, Williamsburg’s Hasidic community is using a legal loophole to build up Bed-Stuy–driving neighborhood residents to court or out altogether.
After millions of dollars in debt, 2,000 building code violations, feuds between tenant groups and stints in every management program the city has to offer, what do the residents of…
Neighborhood environmental justice groups have labored in obscurity for years, picketing polluters and tilting at transfer stations. Now, as national evironmental organizations are eyeing their street-level work, some wonder whether…
School choice is supposed to reward success and punish failure–and that’s exactly happening at the lackluster I.S. 70 in Chelsea. But when a sub-par school gets shut down, it’s not…