Kemba Johnson, Author at City Limits : Page 9 of 9

CITY STRIPS HOUSING WORKS OF $4.5 MILLION CITING FISCAL FLAWS

Kemba Johnson | November 3, 1997

Administration gadfly Housing Works loses a massive city contract because of an investigation into its finances.

Lower East Side

Day in Court

Kemba Johnson | November 1, 1997

The state Supreme Court last month ruled against a year-old citywide network seeking to preserve 400 community gardens.

Water Fight

Kemba Johnson | November 1, 1997

One of the state’s most respected environmentalists has issued a scathing report that questions the city’s ability to safeguard its water supply.

ARTS and CULTURE

RFK ISN'T MIELE-MOUTHED

Kemba Johnson | October 20, 1997

City environmental chief Joel Miele and Riverkeeper Robert Kennedy Jr. trade stats in an argument about the health of the city’s water supply.

Lower East Side

NO GARDEN PARTY FOR DEVELOPERS

Kemba Johnson | October 13, 1997

A judge gives gardeners and greens a victory by issuing a temporary stay against the city’s planned bulldozing of four Lower East Side community gardens.

H2Owe

Kemba Johnson | October 1, 1997

For more than five years now, water and sewer costs have been strangling low-income housing. Local pols have left tenants awash in unmet promises.

Waterfront

KENNEDY: CITY POISONS EFFORT TO PROTECT OUR WATER SUPPLY

Kemba Johnson | September 29, 1997

The city’s environmental agency does an awful job of protecting the city’s water, according to a new report by Robert Kennedy’s Jr.’s Riverkeeper organization.