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Citywide
City Lit: Another World
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A book review of American Project: The Rise and Fall of an American Ghetto, by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Harvard University Press, $29.95.
Lower East Side
City Lit: Alphabet City Slicker
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A book review of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance, by Christopher Mele, University of Minnesota Press, $19.95, 361 pages.
Citywide
Speed Trap
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The Adoption and Safe Families Act puts parents and kids on a fast track to separation.
Community Service Society of New York
Help Wanted
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The hype holds that working poor is the thing to be these days. But a close look at the resources available to low-paid working families shows that getting people off welfare is a lot more popular than keeping them off.
David Dinkins
Eight Lessons We Can Learn From LA, Part One
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Palm trees, surf and endless summers aren’t the only reasons to envy La-La Land. Some of its urban policies aren’t bad, either. From a thriving manufacturing sector to a living-wage law and a child welfare system that focuses on keeping families together, Angelenos are doing quite a few things right.
Bronx
Response Time
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Five activists probe the city’s reaction to the Amadou Diallo shooting, from the politics behind the protests to the future of organizing. Has New York witnessed the spark of a lasting movement, or just a shooting star?
Lower East Side
City Lit: Yanqui Doodle
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A review of King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side, by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff, Westview Press, 1998, 258 pages, $18.
Election '97: Whatcha Gonna Do?
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We asked the three Democratic mayoral candidates what they plan to do about five issues of vital import to the city’s neighborhoods. Messinger wants a real welfare-to-work program. Albanese is going to give New Yorkers a living wage. Sharpton? He doesn’t seem to have any definite plans for the future.
Staten Island
Rudy's Bare Budget
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Flush with a Bull market windfall, the mayor is talking tax cuts to the wealthy. But low-income residents will miss out on their Wall Street bonuses. A primer on city cuts to housing, hospitals, youth, recycling and the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
