City Hall
CRACKING THE CODE
Geoffrey Gray |
City pols demand more thorough inspections from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Bronx
SCATTER-SITE CLEAN-UP
G. Gray |
A comptroller’s audit of the city’s scatter-site housing found rampant unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
Manhattan
MITCHELL-LAMA DRAMA: CITY BILL DIVIDES A CAMPAIGN
Cassi Feldman |
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.
City Hall
NOBLE EFFORTS
G. Gray |
Tenants of the Noble Drew Ali housing development in East New York tried to shame the city out of displacing residents to put up homeless families.
Christine Quinn
MAYOR TO KEEP AIDS SERVICES CITY-RUN, EYES REORGANIZATION
Kai Wright |
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.
City Hall
INTENSIFYING CONFLICT
K. Wright |
Relations between the mayor’s office and AIDS community advocates are souring fast over his reform agenda.
City Hall
GET THE LEAD OUT
K. Wright |
New players, a new bill and the same old story for the Council and lead paint removal.
City Hall
SAVE THE PARTY
K. Wright |
Black and Latino pols join the Working Families Party in telling the mayor to dump his nonpartisan elections proposal.
City Hall
EASY MONEY
K. Wright |
The public advocate wants to make sure people hear about new streamlined food stamp applications–with media giant Vivendi’s help.
City Hall
DATA ADVOCACY
K. Wright |
The Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York has released an update of its tome of child well being data.
