Lower East Side
Working From Home
Amanda Bruscino |
Lillian Wald project residents the City Housing Authority won’t respond to their job applications.
Lower East Side
Power to the People
Annia Ciezadlo |
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 neighborhood groups out to stop them.
Bronx
A POWER-FUL ALLIANCE
Annia Ciezadlo |
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.
Lower East Side
How West Farms Was Won
Matthew Strozier |
As vacant lots disappear from the Bronx, nonprofit developers find themselves squabbling over the space they have left.
Economy
FRANZ LEHMAN, 1915-2000
Katherine Hawkins |
For more than 50 years, Lower East Side community activist Franz Lehman fought for social justice–and he died in the line of duty.
Bronx
INS AND OUTS
City Limits |
A rundown of the leading candidates to head the city’s housing department–and other job jumping.
Lower East Side
LIGHTS OUT FOR BLACKOUT?
Julia Hood |
Anarchist bookstore collective Blackout Books faces its own blackout, victim of a chic Lower East Side.
Lower East Side
The HUD Haggle
Naush Boghossian |
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 more money? Maybe both.
Lower East Side
City Lit: Alphabet City Slicker
City Limits |
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.
Lower East Side
Lay of the Landlords
Joe Heaphy |
Apartment building owners are dropping out of federal subsidy programs faster than you can say “market rents.”
