Staten Island

Speed Trap

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Reliable high speed Internet access is becoming critical to the success of small businesses. But decrepit technology and a lack of infrastructure investment are keeping thousands of them logged off.

Bronx

Waste Not

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For years the outer boroughs have been Manhattan’s garbagemen. Mayor Bloomberg says it’s time for that to change–and his Upper East Side neighbors are trashing his plans.

Government

A Clean Start

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He’s zapped tuberculosis and stamped out smoking.
Now Tom Frieden wants to take on AIDS.
But can New York’s haughty health commissioner convince Queens its neighborhoods need clean needles?

Staten Island

Race Wars

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After 9/11, many New Yorkers feared hate crimes were a new epidemic. But what’s happening on the streets may be more familiar stories: fights over girlfriends, mugging easy marks and rumbles between revved-up teenagers.

Staten Island

Psychiatric Wards

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Unlicensed psychiatric homes operate in the far-out corners of the city and below the radar of the state agencies charged to regulate them. Some are dirty and dangerous, others exemplary–and no one knows where else their residents can go.