Bronx
GREAT NYCHA VACANCY MYSTERY: ARE 7,500 APARTMENTS EMPTY?
G. Thrush and A. Felton |
The community group ACORN did some math and says the city’s housing authority is sitting on 7,500 vacant apartments, a charge NYCHA vigorously denies.
Welfare
SLOPE JOB CREATION IS A WASH
Joe Gould |
The Fifth Avenue Committee has opened a dry cleaner in Brooklyn that hires the unemployed and uses green technology to clean clothes.
Housing and Homelessness
HOPE $PRINGS IN ROCKAWAY
Glenn Thrush |
Federal law requires the city’s housing authority to demolish safe and clean public housing in Far Rockaway, but it looks like Congress will grant a waiver.
