David Dinkins
Ins and Outs
Rachel Breitman and Bryan Farrell |
Hirings, Firings, Retirings
In this issue: Sally Hernandez Pinero takes helm at City Harvest; Margie McHugh leaves the New York Immigration Coalition; Harvey Newman joins Lakeside Family and Children’s Services, and more.
Sports arenas aren’t the mayor’s only plan for invigorating New York. Just take a look at how the city’s pursuing development in the outer boroughs.
Columbia University plans to build a new campus in Harlem, using eminent domain if necessary. Local residents and businesses are proposing an alternative: campus and community coexistence.
He’s zapped tuberculosis and stamped out smoking.
Now Tom Frieden wants to take on AIDS.
But can New York’s haughty health commissioner convince Queens its neighborhoods need clean needles?
In an otherwise sleepy election year, some City Council races are getting interesting as the September 9 primary draws near.
What will Bloomberg’s ambitious housing plan mean for New York’s poor? For community development groups? For your neighborhood? The lowdown, in five parts.
Quality of life legislation hones in on dire threat: markers and spray paint.