Competing visions for the future of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center have lead to charges of racism, battle for control of the lease, and suits and coutersuits.
Just how does welfare reform work? Mostly through a wide variety of job placement intermediaries, according to a new report.
For Wille Garcia and other formerly homeless photographers, the real trick isn’t light levels or focal distance–it’s connecting to people.
Hunts Point residents protest waste transfer station.
A lawsuit challenges welfare offices’ ban on bringing a friend.
Tenants succeed in booting a bad landlord, only to find themselves ordered to leave, too.
Brooklyn’s tightly controlled Democratic machine could blow a gasket as Councilwoman Una Clarke prepares to oust her former mentor and guide, powerhouse congressman Major Owens.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music wants to turn its surroundings into an artistic mecca. Yet Fort Greene already is a cultural capital–one with many ideas of what that means.
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.