Four out of five kids in foster care have a parent with a drug problem. There is an alternative: a once-controversial program that keeps mothers and children together during treatment. But how far can New York City expand the work Mayor Giuliani tried to destroy?
Asthma hospitalization rates for kids are lower than they have been since the city started collecting the data in 1984.
How the downturn is tarnishing outer-borough homeowner dreams.
Sanitation is mulling over Visy Paper’s plans for a high-tech incinerator on Staten Island.
Enviros hope the Department of Sanitation’s new 20-year recycling contract will keep bottles, cans and cartons out of the trash — for good.
Battling long hours, lousy pay and angry neighbors, day laborers in Queens say a permanent “workers’ center” could help them turn things around.
Several City Councilmembers are urging Mayor Bloomberg to preserve city-owned wetlands by consolidating control over them in the Department of Parks and Recreation.
A new wave of literacy teachers is teaching immigrants not just to read and write—but to be hellraising citizens, too.
Dumping garbage is getting a lot more expensive, while recycling is getting more and more affordable. How the Department of Sanitation’s bad math is throwing millions of dollars into dumps.
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