Bronx
City Sued For Failing To Provide Shelter
Mike Reicher |
The city acknowledges that its homeless shelters for individuals are near capacity, but insists they’re not over capacity.
Citywide
Fundraisers Atwitter Over New Cash Stream
Clare Trapasso |
The money to be raised through social networking has some nonprofits seeing green.
Citywide
Foster Kids To Get A Home In One Year, City Says
Nekoro Gomes |
A research report explains why NYC foster children languish so long without ‘permanency.’ Children’s Services backs the findings and promises change.
Bronx
Lawyer: Homeless Families Still Getting Runaround
Mike Reicher |
Last December, the Bloomberg administration settled a quarter-century-old lawsuit over the right to shelter. Now clients and advocates charge that the city isn’t holding up its end of the deal.
Citywide
From The Publisher's Desk: City Limits' New Chapter
Walter Fields |
Under new ownership, this reliable fixture of civic life will grow while staying true to its roots.
Citywide
Saving Public Housing By Building Anew
Roy Strickland |
New York’s public housing has suffered years of federal divestment, putting its future viability in doubt. When a team of urban designers explored the Lower East Side projects’ open spaces, they found potential for NYCHA to not merely survive, but thrive.
Bronx
Foreclosure Fears Lead To Tenants' Conundrum
Vinnie Rotondaro |
First tenants feared that investors who paid exorbitant prices for modest-rent buildings would evict tenants or cut services. Now they’re worried about what happens when those fears don’t materialize.
Citywide
For Homeowners, Promised Help Rarely Arrives
Eileen Markey |
Mortgage companies, foreclosure counselors and government regulators disagree on the reasons why a federal program to help distressed homeowners is rescuing so few.
ARTS and CULTURE
Becoming a Deejay, Leaving the P-J's
Curtis Stephen |
Life is tough in the projects and on the streets, but leavened with music and friendship in this crop of new city books.
Citywide
First Stop, Rikers. Next Stop, Colombia?
Rachel Stern |
Immigrant advocates are trying to separate local police work from federal immigration enforcement.
