CUNY
CUNY Deal Needs Work
Alyssa Katz |
A voucher program for job training takes some heat.
The mayor hopes he’s found the space to build more housing-by pushing for policy changes that make it easier to develop industrial land.
Ethics watchdogs rush to let city officials beg private dollars for struggling public programs. Who will gain?
CUNY thought it had a sweet deal: an exclusive city contract to distribute federal jobs dollars to training schools. But first it’s going to have to pay the bills on time.
As the city falls on tough economic times, some government officials are looking to relax ethics rules in order to raise private cash.
A decade after local residents founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, the bank for the poor last week was declared bankrupt and taken over by a Long Island-based financial institution.
Liz Krueger has battled bureaucrats, empowered the poor and prevailed in a tough campaign. But can she turn the most thankless elected job in New York into a force for change?
They started out in faraway lands from Liberia to Egypt, Philippines to Chicago–and today, they are all New Yorkers. They’re also not just accepting their new home as-is. Meet 20 of the city’s brightest immigrant stars, rattling not just cages, but old ways of building a stronger society.
Student leader, counselor to torture survivors