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 addicts turned activists save the neighborhood too?
New York City’s garbage wars have been fought over who bears the biggest burden within the five boroughs. But the Pennsylvania towns that are a final resting place for our trash have their own point of view on environmental justice.
There’s little that judges can do to rein in young people who run wild and talk back, but a new law could double the number of troubled teens stuck in the court of last resort.
A second local Legal Services office made moves to pull away from headquarters last week, leaving Legal Services of New York City with the prospect of cutting jobs and services, at least in the short-term, while it sets up a new office in Manhattan.
New York’s collection of livable neighborhoods should attract businesses looking for places that make their workers happy, but you wouldn’t know that if you listened to city officials.
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
Soccer coach, teacher, fixer
A waterfront development revives rifts between two communities.
A recent federal court decision may shut the door for neighborhood activists who argue that toxic facilities violate civil rights.
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