Wage Rage
Katherine Hawkins |
Big corporations and developers reap major subsidies from the city, but their service staffs make starvation wages. Now a wave of organizing campaigns is trying to change the equation.
Economy
FRANZ LEHMAN, 1915-2000
Katherine Hawkins |
For more than 50 years, Lower East Side community activist Franz Lehman fought for social justice–and he died in the line of duty.
Staten Island
LONE TENANT, BIG VICTORY
Katherine Hawkins |
An unrepresented Brooklyn tenant overturns the controversial rent deposit law, which advocates say has given landlords too much power in court.
