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…
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…
The latest front in the war against predatory lenders is the green lawns of Long Island, as busloads of ACORN protesters picket the homes of banking execs.
Mariners Harbor was supposed to make Staten Island a manufacturing mecca. But by hunting for headlines instead of plans that create jobs, city officials are squandering the borough’s big chance.
At 25, Dushaw Hockett is the fresh young face at the head of the New York City Public Housing Resident Alliance, organizing tenants in the projects he grew up in.
As banks reinvent themselves with mega-mergers, community developers worry what the new financial order will bring. Could the fall of neighborhood banks bring neighborhoods down, too?