Did City Limits’ expose of the rotten conditions of Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center’s psychiatric unit prompt the now-planned renovations? The city isn’t saying–but it did sent us the bill for our reporter’s stay.
Despite a probable mayoral veto, the City Council is on the verge of voting up a bill that would give the homeless a litany of rights and new programs.
Mayor Giuliani has kept $170 million from community groups to protest the City Council’s budget, and the effects are leading to a lawsuit.
The city has been quietly contracting out jobs to homeless shelter residents.
In the premier issue of Bully Pulpit, the fax monthly takes a look at the ideology of influential City Journal writer Heather MacDonald.
New Yorkers at small employers or working part-time are increasingly unlikely to have health care.
South Bronx activists successfully fought Browning Ferris Industries plans to site a medical waste incinerator in their neighborhood–and their reward is a proposed plant to sterlize medical waste.
Residents of a city-run homeless shelter in Brooklyn are working at the administrative offices to do data-entry, giving them access to confidential information.
African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts. A beauty-biased landmarks commission is to blame, but so are some community leaders.
Hirings and firings in the government and nonprofit world.
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