Deregulation of the electric industry has unleashed a flood of proposals for new power plants. It also makes the job of fighting them that much easier for a coalition of…
A new coalition of concerned neighborhood groups has formed to ensure that electricity deregulation doesn’t mean a power plants will be seeded all over the city.
On the Lower East Side, a landlord threatens to give up government subsidies and the restrictions that go with them. Is it a real threat or a ploy to get…
A book review of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance, by Christopher Mele, University of Minnesota Press, $19.95, 361 pages.