Citywide
First Stop, Rikers. Next Stop, Colombia?
Rachel Stern |
Immigrant advocates are trying to separate local police work from federal immigration enforcement.
Citywide
Poverty Fighters Get Their Own Consultancy
Rae Gomes |
An institute forms to assemble, develop and spread the word about successful services and programs for lower-income people.
Citywide
Proposed: NYC Should Have Even Smaller Apartments
Bendix Anderson |
A reimagining of people’s space needs could point a way out of the affordable housing shortage.
ARTS and CULTURE
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered
Robert Neuwirth |
An art exhibit and conference looks at what development has meant—and will mean—for New York’s most romanticized borough.
Citywide
The World's Religions Meet In The Hospital
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Health care providers are availing themselves of new tools to increase their cross-cultural sensitivity.
Citywide
Intrigues and Immigrants: A Soap Opera For Learners
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An earnest new educational show attempts to close the gap between NYC’s many English language learners and too few affordable language classes.
Bronx
AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate
Curtis Stephen |
With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.
Justice
Ecuadorians In NYC Mull A Migration Home
Andrew Silverstein |
Ecuadorian immigrants living in New York weigh incentives to return home amid the city’s economic downturn.
Bronx
When Utopia's Address Was The Northeast Bronx
Esther Cohen |
A documentary reveals the collectivist past of four apartment buildings off Allerton Avenue, which leftists originally built and inhabited.
Economy
Day Laborers Go From Off-the-Books To Homeless
Andrew Silverstein |
Jobs were plentiful for undocumented immigrants during the boom — but in lean times there’s little work, and even less of a safety net.
