Staten Island
A Home for Work
Matthew Schuerman |
Battling long hours, lousy pay and angry neighbors, day laborers in Queens say a permanent “workers’ center” could help them turn things around.
Gifford Miller
The Politics of Paint
Cassi Feldman and Debbie Nathan |
Just weeks away from voting on a new law on lead poisoning, the city has yet to acknowledge what some scientists have known for years: Blood levels once considered safe may be causing irreparable harm to New York’s children.
Latino
City Lit: Deconstructing the Ghetto
Hakim Hasan |
Racism, not geography, binds America’s urban slums.
Bronx
POLITICS AS UNUSUAL IN THIS FALL’S CITY COUNCIL RACES
Megan Kenny and Cassi Feldman |
In an otherwise sleepy election year, some City Council races are getting interesting as the September 9 primary draws near.
Staten Island
Making Change: Civics as a Second Language
Debbie Nathan |
A new wave of literacy teachers is teaching immigrants not just to read and write—but to be hellraising citizens, too.
Staten Island
WOODSIDE DAY LABORERS ARRESTED IN NEW NYPD SWEEP
Matthew Schuerman |
A longstanding police policy of tolerance comes to an end with the arrests of workers who seek construction jobs on Queens street corners.
Latino
Older Kids Lose Out
Daniel Hendrick |
Overhauling alternative high schools could push out the system’s senior residents.
Latino
Super Barrio Man
Hilary Russ |
Hector Figueroa leads a new wave of savvy organizers reinventing, and radicalizing, the city’s union for janitors and doormen–provoking everyone from his own members to the Manhattan DA.
Latino
LEGAL CLIMAX
K. Wright |
Supporters of a decade-long legal war to force the state to give more to public education are marching from New York to Albany for the final battle.
