Latino
Invisible Men
Annia Ciezadlo |
Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
Times Square
City Lit: Parachute Landing
Annia Ciezadlo |
Coney Island: Lost and Found, written and designed by Charles Denson.
FDNY
NO CHARITY FOR VENDORS AT HOLIDAY MARKET FUNDRAISER
Annia Ciezadlo |
A street fair operator’s attempt to follow city law while raising money for families of firefighters has put his holiday market vendors in the red just a week before Christmas.
Manhattan
UNION CLEANS UP
Annia Ciezadlo |
As the economy continues to slump, the city’s janitors got some extra job protection last week, and moved their union up a few rungs on the city’s political ladder.
Coney Island
Coney Island Hig
Annia Ciezadlo |
The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former addicts turned activists save the neighborhood too?
WAITING TO INHALE
Annia Ciezadlo |
A shortage of over-the-counter inhalers leaves asthmatic New Yorkers–especially those without health insurance–without an emergency remedy in case of an attack, and gives doctors hope that more people will seek professional help.
Squatters' Rites: Homes Above Ground
Annia Ciezadlo |
Find out where the legal squatters of the Alphabet City make their home and what they’re like.
David Dinkins
Squatters' Rites: Taking Liberties
Annia Ciezadlo |
The finer historical highlights of squatting in New York City.
Bronx
Exclusive: City to Let Squatters Sit Comfortably at Home
Annia Ciezadlo |
After decades of battling with Lower East Side residents who hijacked vacant city buildings to make them their own, the city has agreed to help these renegades turn their squats into their own low-income co-ops.
The Disabled
Dead End Jobless
Annia Ciezadlo |
An automated phone system makes it easier for laid-off workers to get their unemployment checks–when it works.
