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Tenant organizer Margarita Lopez won the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in part because of aggresive registration in the Lower East Side’s housing projects.

BySteven Wishnia 0Comments

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Sep 1997

Government

A PRIMARY PRIMER: CITY COUNCIL RACES TO WATCH ON SEPT. 9

A rundown of some political horse races in next week’s Democratic primary.

ByGlenn Thrush 0Comments

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Aug 1997

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

JUDGE BLOCKS NYCHA'S BID TO PUSH POOR TO BACK OF WAITING LIST

Advocates got a little breathing room in their quest to stop a city housing authority plan to keep the poorest applicants from renting vacant apartments.

ByGlenn Thrush 0Comments

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Aug 1997

Government

Election '97: Ruth's Root Rot

Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is famous for cultivating grassroots support. So why is she plotting a Clintonesque media campaign in her race to become New York’s first woman mayor?

ByGlenn Thrush 0Comments

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Aug 1997

Uncategorized

Loisaida’s Next Stage

The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is a cavernous schoolhouse crammed with theater, painting, sculpture and dance. Where else can you catch a genuine Punch-and-Rudy show, or the first New…

ByRobin Epstein 0Comments

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Jul 1997

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$50 MILLION PRESS RELEASE

A libel lawsuit is the latest chapter in a fight for a parcel in land in East Brooklyn between a coleslaw factory and parents who want a new school.

ByGlenn Thrush 0Comments

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Jun 1997

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Parent-Teacher Conference

When Maria Jay-Vega came to New York in the early 1980s, she couldn’t understand English–or why the Board of Education was trying to put her son in Special Ed. Now…

ByZhanna Agran 0Comments

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May 1997

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INSPECT CASE WILL BE HEARD

A group of Bronx tenants can make a federal case out of their lawsuit alleging the city does a better job of housing code enforcement in white neighobhroods.