Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement has become a north central Harlem powerhouse by running local housing and social service programs. It’s now poised to hand down power to its 96 member churches. It just needs to figure out how.
African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts. A beauty-biased landmarks commission is to blame, but so are some community leaders.
A Sunset Park community group found a way to survive city budget cuts, but can it bring unity to a fragmented neighborhood?
For decades the Regional Plan Association padded the corridors of power and flexed muscle for its sweeping visions of regional development. But now the group must court communities if it wants to see its latest plan take wing.
Twenty years ago, Assemblyman Al Vann promised to lead a grand coalition of blacks and Puerto Ricans that would run the city right–from the left. Now he’s lucky to hold onto a diminishing Bed-Stuy power base, and a united, powerful black Brooklyn is once again just a dream.
Voter registration worked well for a network of neighborhood organizations working in some of New York’s poorest neighborhoods.
They thought it was the deal of their lives. Working families jumped at the city housing authority’s offer to sell them cheap, renovated apartments. But four years later, nothing has come of the city’s pledge. And 450 Bronx and Manhattan tenants say the deal looks like a con job.
A network of neighborhood organizations that threw itself into voter mobilization says it got 20,000 people across the city to go to the polls.
Some pundits say the influence of political action committees is waning. But in New York, where the perception of power is as important as the real thing, a player without a PAC is prey. City Limits picks ten power PACs you need to watch.
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