Michael Bloomberg
The Growth Dividend
Alex Ulam |
The Bloomberg administration wants to spruce up Brooklyn’s waterfront and create affordable housing. But will developers build it if they don’t have to?
Housing: The Next Generation / Green and Lean
Alex Ulam |
A Harlem entrepreneur proves that housing can be high quality, environmentally friendly–and affordable.
The Missing Links
Alex Ulam |
Plans to build a world-class golf course in Bronx Ferry Point Park are sinking just as quickly as environmental concerns about the $40 million project multiply.
National
Federal Court Reads Landlords Tenants' Rights
Alex Ulam |
Debt collectors can no longer evict tenants for nonpayment of rent without first telling them they have a right to challenge that debt, a federal judge has ruled.
Staten Island
No Fore Warning
Alex Ulam |
By 2003, private developers will transform a Bronx municipal landfill into a world-class golf course. Now the project’s neighbors are demanding to know what lies beneath Ferry Point Park.
Brooklyn
Planting an Idea
Alex Ulam |
While state green flows freely for parkland in parts north, city folk get the short end of the sticks. But one crusader has a plan to make New York City’s plots thicken–by turning vacant lots into parks.
Government
AUDIT: BAD OVERSIGHT AND MONEY WOES PLAGUE MITCHELL-LAMA
Alex Ulam |
Generally considered a public-housing success story, the low and middle-income Mitchell-Lama projects are actually in financial hot water.
Bronx
CITY RESERVOIR CLEANING PLAN ALL WET, SAYS STATE
Alex Ulam |
By requiring environmental review of a scheme to dump thousands of tons of chemicals in a upstate reservoir, the state may have scuttled the city’s drining water plan.
Shadow of a Drought
Alex Ulam |
New York City’s Water Board has decided to cut off the flow to buildings behind on their payments–adding the threat of dry taps to already out-of-control water bills.
