Every night, teenage girls at a city group home in East New York can be found on the street smoking pot, drinking liquor and disappearing into the night with strangers. The city’s child welfare agency is failing to nurture, protect or even supervise kids in its care.
Giving students the right to choose their high school is a goal shared by education reformers around the country. New York is already there. But without guidance or real information, many city students are making uninformed choices.
New York State doesn’t shield companies that buy environmentally tainted “brownfields” from liability. One Staten Island chair factory is being forced to shut down as a result.
In recent years, foundations have plowed big money into a raging stock market, and their endowments reflect it. Funders and their beneficiaries are wondering if a bear market will have the opposite effect.
From her roots in organizing to her ascension to the Lower East Side City Council seat, Margarita L
A city freeze in nonprofit funding leaves a public defense agency with no more options.
Kids take mics into an infamous hospital to see if the rumors are true.
An audit reveals the cracks in the city’s program to let tenants run their own apartment buildings.
The city has been quietly contracting out jobs to homeless shelter residents.
A book review of Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy, by Ross Gittel and Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998, 196 pages, $23.95.
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