Turns out City Hall’s bark is much worse than its bite. Despite months of Doomsday predictions, the city budget agreement reached last week ended up relatively pain-free, as most threatened…
In a last attempt to save programs they say their clients desperately need, some groups have found pools of cash they say the Bloomberg administration would be foolish not to…
In one of the first free speech lawsuits that Mayor Bloomberg inherited from his predecessor, the new administration says it hopes to follow Giuliani’s lead and continue to limit the…
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
The Rent Guidelines Board gained a tenant advocate last week when Mayor Bloomberg appointed Legal Aid attorney Adriene Holder, while the city’s settlement houses are slated to lose their longtime…
As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash…