The Big Idea: Safe Sex Ed
Kai Wright |
The Bush administration’s new public health priorities push HIV prevention back into the closet.
Latino
City Lit: Deconstructing the Ghetto
Hakim Hasan |
Racism, not geography, binds America’s urban slums.
Gifford Miller
NYC Inc: Signs of Progress
Jennifer Gerend |
New York’s awning regulations may seem petty, but sleek signage actually helps small businesses thrive.
Gifford Miller
The Politics of Paint
Cassi Feldman and Debbie Nathan |
Just weeks away from voting on a new law on lead poisoning, the city has yet to acknowledge what some scientists have known for years: Blood levels once considered safe may be causing irreparable harm to New York’s children.
Lower East Side
Help Wanted
Alyssa Katz |
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was given $2.7 billion in federal funds to help New York recover from 9/11. Two years later, it’s failing to relieve the city’s second disaster: unrelenting unemployment
Lower East Side
Rent Stabilization
Mark Wallace |
Rent subsidies helped revive lower Manhattan’s flagging
housing market after 9/11-and helped luxury landlords far more than downtown’s poor.
Staten Island
A Home for Work
Matthew Schuerman |
Battling long hours, lousy pay and angry neighbors, day laborers in Queens say a permanent “workers’ center” could help them turn things around.
