New York State has a long list of anti-poverty programs that are funded with federal welfare monies. The dirty little secret: through the miracle of accounting, hundreds of millions are actually paying for tax breaks.
Despite being written by a wide-ranging coalition that included many envioronmental groups, proposed new brownfield legislation may be undone by green critics.
Protesters, politicians and preachers agree: The Bronx could use some community policing.
Some slick lawyering has left a tenant in New York City Housing Partnership housing paying back rent for an apartment that was almost too dangerous to live in.
The latest chapter in the battle to unionize the nation’s oldest CDC starred a former union official who stopped by to tell workers they shouldn’t join his old local.
When workers at the legendary Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation began to organize a union, management got busy, too, hiring a firm with a reputation for union-busting. Is this any way to help a neighborhood?
When the NYPD designated Valentine Avenue as a “model block,” residents hoped it would mean safer streets. Instead, they found themselves fighting crime on their own.
The latest phone scams rip off poor New Yorkers with dud cards and losing schemes.
Five residents reflect on 50 years of life in the New York City Housing Authority’s Jacob Riis Houses.
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