Lower East Side
Hot for Profit
Kathleen McGowan |
Gambling that history won’t repeat itself, the city’s housing agency is selling troubled buildings back to private landlords.
Bronx
POISON FOR THE POOR
Annia Ciezadlo |
Industrial strength pesticides meant only for licensed exterminators are sold on the street in poor neighborhoods in New York–and they could be a leading cause of asthma.
Latino
PAINTERS 1, THESPIANS 0 IN LOWER EAST SIDE CULTURE BRAWL
Annia Ciezadlo |
Competing visions for the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have lead to charges of racism, battle for control of the lease, and suits and coutersuits.
Latino
Locked Out
David Kihara |
Landlords assumed Asian tenants would up with some of their ugliest tricks, including threatening letters, illegal evictions and dilapidated apartments. They were wrong.
Con Edison
CON ED POWER PLANT SWAP CHOKES LOWER EAST SIDE
Kathleen McGowan |
Closing a dirty generating plant in Murray Hill means Con Ed will open a new one on 14th Street. But local residents argue that the new plant won’t be clean enough.
Lower East Side
Fruit Fight
Kemba Johnson |
Pickets push for greengrocers to pay legal wages to their immigrant workers.
Lower East Side
Building Blocks
Kathleen McGowan |
For years, the New York Equity Fund has been the financial middleman for virtually every low-income housing project in town. Thats’s meant profits for the fund, little choice for developers and big questions about what happens when the tax credits run out.
Lower East Side
The Devil in the Details
Kathleen McGowan |
A plan for the future of public housing has frightened residents with promises of demolition and private control.
Community Service Society of New York
Hockett Protector
Keith Meatto |
At 25, Dushaw Hockett is the fresh young face at the head of the New York City Public Housing Resident Alliance, organizing tenants in the projects he grew up in.
Lower East Side
Aging Placefully
Amanda Bell |
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities come into their own.
