The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former…
An aging flophouse is getting a full makeover, with Japanese-style cubicles and attentive caseworkers. With the new digs come new neighbors–and for old-timers, a reckoning with a dying way of…
Culture wars have a whole different meaning in the city’s Indo-Caribbean nightclub scene, where ethnicity, music and sex collide and blend to the beat of the new New Yorker.
In the city’s search for hotel rooms to house an overflow of homeless families in city shelters, the Department of Homeless Services has begun placing families in a building whose…
The Times Square Hotel is a story of succesful evolution, going from a hazardous horror show to a model for supporting the formerly homeless. But it may remain the exception,…
With a year left until the nation’s welfare law comes up for reauthorization, New York’s welfare commissioners argued for the right to limit spending on poverty-fighting programs at the first…
Civil rights champion Norman Siegel wants the public advocate to be the city’s professional rabble-rouser, coordinating demonstrations instead of reports. Did Mark Green have it all wrong?
