Bronx
For Creatives, A Haven's Becoming A Headache
Michelle S. Han |
At a forum last week, self-employed Brooklynites and the experts who value them explored challenges to the growth of their demographic.
ARTS and CULTURE
Youngsters Read the City: Books for Little Urbanists
Eileen Markey |
In gift-giving season, our reader collects a shelf full of NYC-centered children’s books.
Bronx
Students Protest Armory's Disappearing High Schools
Eileen Markey |
A painstakingly negotiated redevelopment plan was to include two new schools – but now there are none.
Health and Environment
Public Art Means Public Controversy
Adam Klasfeld |
The young painters who just unveiled a new batch of bright murals are learning the difference between art and decoration.
Manhattan
Twenty Years Ago: Diversity in Queens
Doug Turetsky |
“A melting pot of various ethnic and racial neighbors, the Queens community deals with differences to keep the pot from boiling over.”
ARTS and CULTURE
ROBERT MOSES RECONSIDERED:
BLIGHT IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Roberta Brandes Gratz |
A noted urban thinker reminds us what was lost when Robert Moses deemed areas ‘slums’ and tore them down. The third in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
Economy
CITY BLOCKS LIKE SHOPPING MALLS
David Giles |
A new book helps make sense of un-cosmopolitan currents washing over Gotham.
Bronx
GETTING RID OF MONEY
IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
Andres Amerikaner |
In the Bronx, small stores battle big chains for immigrants’ cash remittances to family back home.
Bronx
WHERE WILL HOSPITAL PATIENTS GO?:
MYSTERY OF CLOSURE PLAN REMAINS
Karen Loew |
Nothing to do but wait and see what the Commission on Health Care Facilities recommends this week, activists, hospital workers and bureaucrats agree.
Standardized Tests
LITERACY EFFORT FINDS THE 'MISSING MIDDLE'
Darise Jean-Baptiste |
New community-student program to boost reading for middle schoolers.
