The city’s Voter Assistance Commission was founded to boost dismal city voter registration rates–but starved for resources, it can do little more than stand by and watch as election day…
The city is proposing changes to the tax lien law that would take hundreds of vulnerable buildings out from under the watchful eye of the housing agency, leaving them to…
Alarmed tenants, housing lawyers and City Councilmembers slogged through the rain to a housing agency hearing Tuesday morning to express dismay at proposed rule changes that could allow the city…
A new coalition of concerned neighborhood groups has formed to ensure that electricity deregulation doesn’t mean a power plants will be seeded all over the city.
So we’re presenting a handful of Democratic state primary battles that you might not have heard so much about. In most of these races, there aren’t a lot of policy…
Thanks to funding from a federal housing department program, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit bought a Harlem SRO last year. But the residents are being left to fend for themselves.
Industrial strength pesticides meant only for licensed exterminators are sold on the street in poor neighborhoods in New York–and they could be a leading cause of asthma.
