The Harlem Shuffle
Kemba Johnson |
Buy low, sell high, cash in–it’s all in a day’s work for developers who’ve turned an affordable housing program into an ATM.
Bill Clinton
Law & Borders: The New Community Policing Turns Neighbors Into Cops
Annia Ciezadlo |
When the NYPD designated Valentine Avenue as a “model block,” residents hoped it would mean safer streets. Instead, they found themselves fighting crime on their own.
Center for an Urban Future
City Lit: Split Definitive
Peggy J. Farber |
A book review of Solomon’s Sword: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away, by Michael Shapiro, Times Books, 320 pages, $25.
Family Court
Law & Borders: In Red Hook, a Justice Center Courts an Entire Community
Jarrett Murphy |
This fall a Brooklyn neighborhood will not only welcome a new courthouse–it will become a laboratory. The experiment? Whether criminal justice can be as pervasive as crime.
