GRAND JURY OUT ON PRAXIS

Prosecutors have convened a grand jury to determine whether or not the former directors of Praxis, an AIDS housing and social services organization, should be charged with misappropriation of public funds.

LANDER MOVING ON

Fifth Avenue Committee Executive Director Brad Lander is leaving after ten years at the organization’s helm.

NOBLE EFFORTS

Tenants of the Noble Drew Ali housing development in East New York tried to shame the city out of displacing residents to put up homeless families.

WASTED FUNDS

Councilmember Alan Gerson panned yesterday the mayor’s plan to generate affordable housing in his lower Manhattan district.

MENTAL HEALTH BLOCKS

Parents of more than 12,700 children handed them over to government custody in 2001 in order to get mental health care for them, according to the GAO.