Citywide
Labor’s Election Day Loss
Jill Grossman |
9/11 election delays cost Working Families Party.
Queens
Fractional Numbers
Annette Fuentes |
Call it a gorgeous mosaic or the other New York, the city’s diversity is one of its great treasures. But according to the Census, we’re also super segregated–and becoming more divided every year.
Government
Back to the Old Neighborhood
Alyssa Katz |
To celebrate our silver anniversary, the City Limits staff compiled some up-to-date snapshots of the fighters, movements and communities that have moved the city forward over the last 25 years, from housing court brides to East Village rooftop windmills.
Back to the Old Neighborhood: Empowerment Zones Out, December 1996
Gillian Andrews |
Businesswoman Dorothy Pitman Hughes battles the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.
Back to the Old Neighborhood: A Teen in Trouble Finds a New Hang, October 1996
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How alternative sentencing steered David Rivera to life on the outside.
Back to the Old Neighborhood: In The East Village, Rehab Is a Family Affair, August/September 1996
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How La Bodega de la Familia brought John Quiles back from the brink.
Back to the Old Neighborhood: The Founder of a Needle Exchange Dies from a Dose, June/July 1996
Julia Lyon |
Needle exchange renegade Brian Weil helped transform public health in New York.
Lower East Side
Back to the Old Neighborhood: The Grandmother of Loisaida Fights to Keep Her Title, November 1991
Hilary Russ |
How Carmen Pabon became one of the loudest voices on the Lower East Side.
Back to the Old Neighborhood: A Homeless Mother Wrangles with the City, February 1990
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A veteran of the Brooklyn Arms family shelter recalls her battles for dignity.
Latino
Home Health Workers Take Care of Business, August/September 1990
Abigail Rao |
How the workers of Cooperative Home Care Associates remade an industry.
