Lower East Side
WHERE'S THE GREEN, GROCER?
Aaron Clark |
Employees at neighborhood green grocers protest being regularly shortchanged on overtime and the minimum wage because they’re immigrants.
Hunger
BUYER SOUGHT IN LOISAIDA SELL-OUT
Kathleen McGowan |
CHARAS supporters are pulling out all the stops to determine the identity of the mystery buyer who purchased their Lower East Side arts center at a city auction.
Lower East Side
Straight From the Harp
Heather Bryant |
The Howie the Harp center prepares students for outreach, counseling, advocacy and case management jobs.
Lower East Side
City Lit: Yanqui Doodle
City Limits |
A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
Manhattan
PHONE AND GAMES
Kathleen McGowan |
A fake apartment-for-rent ad brings scores of calls on affordable housing to the city’s housing commish.
Bronx
UNDERCOVER PROBE FINDS NEGLECT, APATHY AT CITY PSYCH WARD
Glenn Thrush |
In the current issue of City Limits: An inside investigation of a city-run psychiatric ward.
Lower East Side
Cityview: Sweetening ISTEA
Jon Orcutt |
How to make federal transit dollars move New York.
Lower East Side
Cracks Epidemic
Kathleen McGowan |
The tenements of the Lower East Side went up a century ago with cheap construction and shaky foundations. Today, a new housing boom threatens to bring these buildings down, one crack at a time.
Lower East Side
IMPOSTORS GET PIECE OF THE AUCTION
Ellen Sersanous |
With fake bids, protesters derailed last week’s city auction of community gardens.
Manhattan
CITY HALTS WORK AT PARTNERSHIP SITES AFTER NEAR CAVE-IN
Carl Vogel |
Contractors cracked the foundation of a Lower East Side apartment building abutting their worksite, causing the building to be evacuated.
