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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…

ByJake Mooney 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Economy

A Troubled Age: Tough Times For NYC Youth

When New York City public schools let out next week, the tests will have just begun for many teens, who will face rising crime and the weakest young adult job…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Uncategorized

Afraid of Crime Now? Join The Kids

Times Square. In its colorful and danger-filled heyday of the 1970s and ’80s, porn shops, drug pushers, prostitutes and pistol-toting stickup men were the price of admission. But the venue…

ByCurtis Stephen 0Comments

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Jun 2010

News Uncategorized

Housing Costs Devour More Family Budgets

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…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Justice

Homelessness Strikes More NYC Children

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.…

ByKelly Virella 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Education Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Hard Math: Charter Schools Race For Space

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…

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Uncategorized

Reviews: A City on Fire

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,…

ByDavid Alm 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

HUD Proposes Landmark Changes to Public Housing

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…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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May 2010

News Uncategorized

Report: Fraud Common Among Top Debt Buyers

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…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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May 2010

ARTS and CULTURE

Pot Smoke, Dead Elevators & Killer Paint: Life in the Towers

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…

ByHannah Rappleye 1Comment

Sewage, Cement And Staten Island's Future

A Troubled Age: Tough Times For NYC Youth

Afraid of Crime Now? Join The Kids

Housing Costs Devour More Family Budgets

Homelessness Strikes More NYC Children

Hard Math: Charter Schools Race For Space

Reviews: A City on Fire

HUD Proposes Landmark Changes to Public Housing

Report: Fraud Common Among Top Debt Buyers

Pot Smoke, Dead Elevators & Killer Paint: Life in the Towers

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