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.
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…
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.
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…