The Bible reading during the Mass near the empty NYCHA complex was apropos. “Like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it,” the passage from I Corinthians read. “But each one must be careful how he builds upon it.”
New faces at public agencies and private groups across the city, as inimitable organizer John Raskin moves on, and labor leader Roger Toussaint moves up.
The presidential candidates have staked out very different positions on housing, schools, crime, infrastructure and other issues key to urban America.
Numbers showing the city’s AIDS epidemic rages on worse than thought arrived in tandem with state cuts for AIDS-fighting measures. In a climate with plenty of needs and ever fewer resources, this is the first in an ongoing series looking at reduced social services funding.
Why not expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to needy older teens and young adults?
The ranks of officially poor New Yorkers grew by 4 percent overnight. It’ll be a while before public antipoverty efforts adjust.
Could the simple necessity of public housing shape a financially stronger future?
Saying there’s a serious threat that local Muslim youth will become radicalized, the NYPD dispatched informers to root out those who’ve turned against us—and perhaps to help foment the very plots that law enforcement then disrupts.
Kevin Powell seeks to channel that Obama youth energy into a victory in Brooklyn’s 10th District over incumbent Congressman Edolphus Towns.
A new Brooklyn-based web effort aims to ensure that citizens’ Democratic presidential primary votes have impact.
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