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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
