Bronx
RENOVATING A CASTLE:
KINGSBRIDGE SHOWS HOW
Eileen Markey |
Residents rewrote development rules to bring life back to a grand old building.
Center for an Urban Future
THE CREATIVE EDGE
A. Breslau |
Major conference will examine how New York City can better support its vibrant arts sector.
Manhattan
COURTING TROUBLE: FAMILY COURT
OVERWHELMED WITH NEW CASES
Cassi Feldman |
City courts face double whammy: a major surge in child protective cases and a strict new state law.
Economy
TO MARKET, TO MARKET
William Wichert |
As small businesses and street vendors try to compete with the big guns in Harlem, the Bloomberg administration considers including local merchants in a new commercial development on 125th Street–and community residents plan to hold the mayor to it.
Theater
OFFICIALS TO THEATER: BAM!
Pablo Morales |
City and state elected officials have threatened to withhold millions of dollars from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Local Development Corporation if it does not include more of the community’s demands in its plan for a cultural district.
Bronx
Big Red School House
Steven Gnagni |
After years of pushing for the construction of a few new schools in the long-unused Kingsbridge Armory–with little response from the mayor’s office–some Bronx residents recently got their first sign that their proposal could happen when Bloomberg officials said they would look into it.
Housing and Homelessness
This Land Is Whose Land? Charas Versus Housing
Jill Grossman |
Six months after its new landlord put CHARAS out on the street, the East Village community center has its sights on another property… but so does the Housing Authority.
ARTS and CULTURE
IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS … I’D BUY THE COMMODORE
Elizabeth Olsson |
The Commodore, the last of the string of vaudeville theaters that once lined Brooklyn’s Broadway, is for sale. Local residents are asking the city to landmark the building before it, too, becomes history.
Lower East Side
CHARAS' LAST STAND
Sarah Ferguson |
A three-year struggle to save a Lower East Side community center could end today,as the city sheriff plans to post an official eviction notice on the doors of CHARAS.
