The 13-year-old was a middle school student. He lived in Washington Heights. He wrote in his journal that he wanted to die by putting a plastic bag over his head.…
For young people born without that proverbial silver Spoon in their mouths, New York City has never been An easy place to grow up. It’s a tough love kind of…
The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is designed to handle 60 million gallons of sewage per day.
Photo by: Marc Fader
Projects to upgrade a sewage plant and construct a cement…
Despite neighborhoods littered with vacant homes and sale prices that dropped dramatically in the past three years, more Americans are spending more of their money on housing expenses than ever…
The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children.…
The state legislature's eleventh-hour vote last month to expand New York's charter schools will add 114 new charters to the 99 currently operating in New York City. But while the…
The Fires By Joe Flood, 325 pp. Riverhead Books. $26.95In 1961, President Kennedy hired Robert S. McNamara away from his job as president of the Ford Motor Company to,…
In a move signaling the biggest changes since the advent of public housing 70 years ago, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development told Congress last week that it…
In addition to shoddy mortgages, deed theft and usurious payday loans, there's another predator sucking money out of low income neighborhoods of color: debt buyers. According to a study released…
On a warm Saturday morning a few weeks ago, a group of older tenants at the River Park Towers in Morris Heights, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, set up…