Lower East Side
Fighting for Good Fortune
Geoffrey Gray |
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, dedicated to showcasing the lives of tenants of times past, may be evicting contemporary ones.
Lower East Side
Making Change: Good Neighbor Policies
Larry Schwartztol |
You can beat NIMBY forces that fight residences for people with mental illness, but building bridges can take as much work and time as building the apartments.
Lower East Side
TAXING FOR TENANTS
Annia Ciezadlo |
Barely six years after the city forcibly evicted squatters from five city-owned tenements on the Lower East Side and handed then over to an affordable housing developer, the buildings are right back where they started: on the city’s list of tax-delinquent properties.
Citywide
Crossing The Line
Sasha Abramsky |
The streets of Fort Greene have a lot going for them: elegant brownstones, shady trees, hip cafes and zealous police patrols. An aggressive cop crackdown on parolees and project-dwellers now divides the neighborhood into two halves: the suspected and the protected.
Lower East Side
CHARAS' LAST STAND
Sarah Ferguson |
A three-year struggle to save a Lower East Side community center could end today,as the city sheriff plans to post an official eviction notice on the doors of CHARAS.
Lower East Side
Adding the Final Touch: A Windmill and Solar Panels, February 1975
Abigail Rao |
An experiment in green living leaves a mixed legacy.
Lower East Side
Dilapidation and Death on Avenue C, December 1979
Seth Solomonow |
Back to the Old Neighborhood
Lower East Side
Back to the Old Neighborhood: The Grandmother of Loisaida Fights to Keep Her Title, November 1991
Hilary Russ |
How Carmen Pabon became one of the loudest voices on the Lower East Side.
Economy
“WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?” ASK PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS REQUIRED TO VOLUNTEER
Seth Solomonow |
New York’s public housing tenants and advocates charge that a decades old federal law to provide paying jobs for tenants has been all but ignored.
