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Palm trees, surf and endless summers aren’t the only reasons to envy La-La Land. Some of its urban policies aren’t bad, either. From a thriving manufacturing sector to a living-wage…

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Jul 1999

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City Lit: The Serving Poor

A book review of No Shame in My Game, by Katherine S. Newman, Knopf and The Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, 400 pages, $27.95.

ByGina Neff 0Comments

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Jun 1999

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LEAD ASTRAY

Council Speaker Peter Vallone and landlord allies keep revising their new lead paint bill. Tenant activists doubt they’ll like whatever is in the final draft.

ByKemba Johnson 0Comments

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Jun 1999

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Response Time

Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a…

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May 1999

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Hostile Territory

Just when an economic resurgence is refueling Williamsburg manufacturing, new rivals prevent its expansion–by living in lofts instead of working in lofts.

ByJonathan Bowles 0Comments

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Apr 1999

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Split Decision

Immigrant groups that have used school boards as a portal into politics were relieved when the feds shot down a plan to dismantle the current election system. But confusion about…

ByEzequiel Minaya 0Comments

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Mar 1999

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Painted into a Corner

The mayor, city councilmembers, children’s advocates and landlords all agree that the city needs a new lead paint law. They just can’t decide what it should say.

ByLeon Lazaroff 0Comments

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Feb 1999

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Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the…