Christine Quinn
Mitchell-Lama Drama
Cassi Feldman |
Tenants Balk at Bill
As City Council members push a bill to save Mitchell-Lama housing, tenants in some of those subsidized developments say the legislation simply detracts from the larger effort to keep the buildings affordable.
Education officials say that the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates the end of an innovative school that helps immigrant young people get settled; electeds fight to keep it open.
To the relief of the AIDS community, Mayor Bloomberg agreed not to contract out AIDS services as part of a preliminary budget deal with the Council last week-but his plan to shuffle around oversight of those services continues to keep advocates on edge.
In his first significant speech on the city’s AIDS policy, Mayor Bloomberg announced he hopes to dismantle a law that requires the city to provide a certain level of services to people with the virus — and to place those responsibilities in the hands of community organizations instead.
Chelsea’s elected officials want to sink Target’s plan to dock a store-in-a-boat on the Hudson.
Just as the city’s new recycling laws start to work against them, some homeless New Yorkers may soon lose another resource: We Can, a unique nonprofit recycling depot in Hell’s Kitchen, is slated to lose its home this week as the city makes way for a mixed-income housing development
The new Council is busy with a bevy of activist legislation–but how long will it last?
Tenants on West 19th Street were relieved when their landlord finally decided to fix their oft-broken elevator, but they never expected to be without a lift, and–for elderly residents–without a way out, for more than six weeks.