The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is a cavernous schoolhouse crammed with theater, painting, sculpture and dance. Where else can you catch a genuine Punch-and-Rudy show, or the first New York International Fringe Theater Festival?
City agencies can’t find enough clerical jobs or brooms to keep workfare workers busy. That’s why Mayor Giuliani’s planning to export thousands of them to neighborhood nonprofits.
Citing structural damage, the city has demolished a Lower East Side SRO, leaving unanswered the question of what comes next for the site.
Several legal hearings later, the city housing agency has lost its attempt to stop a tenant street protest against a proposed deregulation scheme.
State Senate Joe Bruno has been talking a lot lately about getting rid of rent regulation, and last week he floated another idea on Ed Koch’s radio show.
A Harlem group is hoping to ensure that people who are locked up aren’t unfairly locked out of their voting rights.
A New York City Housing Authority policy designed to prevent convicted criminals from moving into apartments may be putting battered women at risk.
There’s a one-word explanation for why there are far fewer mentally ill men and women living on the streets today than there were just five years ago: Housing.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of thousands of women who are forced to tell abusive partners their whereabouts in order to qualify for public housing.
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