Lower East Side Archives : Page 21 of 22 : City Limits

Roberts' Rules

Kim Nauer | March 1, 1998

To keep their city consulting dollars, neighborhood housing groups now have to lend a hand to landlords.

HOUSING HELPERS BLAST CITY PLAN

Kim Nauer | February 23, 1998

The city has changed its neighborhood housing services programs, much to the chagrin of low-income community advocates.

A Shot in the Arm

Dylan Foley | February 1, 1998

Harm reduction is being redefined by the volunteers if Streeetwise Health Project, who bring health care to people who have gone without it for so long.

SNUBBING AWAY IN MARGARITA-VILLE

Andres Gleic | January 26, 1998

Despite her two decades of experience with low-income housing, new Council member and political outsider Margarita Lopez has been left off the Housing and Buildings Committee.

A young, idealistic credit union founder from Central Brooklyn tried to become Fort Greene’s City Councilmember. He failed. But what he learned will be valuable for the next crop of insurgents–the Class of 2001.

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Day in Court

Kemba Johnson | November 1, 1997

The state Supreme Court last month ruled against a year-old citywide network seeking to preserve 400 community gardens.

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NO GARDEN PARTY FOR DEVELOPERS

Kemba Johnson | October 13, 1997

A judge gives gardeners and greens a victory by issuing a temporary stay against the city’s planned bulldozing of four Lower East Side community gardens.

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Poor Richard's Almanac

Lauren Grover | October 1, 1997

This summer, a college intern agreed to help a welfare recipient handle a couple of problems. Their travails have lessons to teach all of us about welfare reform. Excerpts from a journal.

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LOISAIDA'S LOPEZ WINS TIGHT COUNCIL RACE ON TENANT ISSUES

Steven Wishnia | September 22, 1997

Tenant organizer Margarita Lopez won the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in part because of aggresive registration in the Lower East Side’s housing projects.