Last week’s settlement between Mayor Bloomberg and Attorney General Spitzer added hundreds of community gardens to the city’s roster of green spaces, but some neighborhoods lost a disproportionate chunk of…
Assistance is on the way for many of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who qualify for food stamps but up to now haven’t gotten them because of long…
As the city’s Department of Homeless Services struggles to house the record number of homeless families it sees each day, several of the agency’s managers and social workers plan to…
The Board of Ed is backing off its 36-year-old pledge to provide special schools for teenage moms, but placing them back in regular schools delivers its own problems.
Liz Krueger has battled bureaucrats, empowered the poor and prevailed in a tough campaign. But can she turn the most thankless elected job in New York into a force for…
The activists, laborers and hippies who’ve made abandoned buildings into viable homes were the scourge of City Hall. Now Loisaida’s last outlaws have become government-sponsored homeowners.