Housing and Homelessness

KIDS LOSE OUT IN BROOKLYN SCHOOL OF HARD LOCKS

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When the Board of Education closes Brooklyn’s Sarah J. Hale high school in a few weeks, the student body will be dispersed–and some wonder where they’ll land.

In its ongoing drive to shut down schools that don’t make the grade, the Board of Education has flunked one school that parents and students say should have been given a chance. When Sarah J. Hale high school in Boerum Hill closes its doors at the end of this month, it will be closed for good. Last year, a team of independent education experts recommended that the school be “phased out,” citing low student academic performance and poor attendance.

Bronx

Mommy Nearest

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The city is launching a visionary plan to house foster kids in the same neighborhoods they’ve been taken from. But for it to succeed, foster parents will have to get more than grief for their trouble.

Latino

Cops and Collars

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After the Diallo verdict and Dorismond killing, a group of religious leaders kept the peace among furious Bronx residents. Now they want something in return: real community policing.

Hillary Clinton

The Young and the Leftist

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The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.

Latino

Locked Out

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Landlords assumed Asian tenants would up with some of their ugliest tricks, including threatening letters, illegal evictions and dilapidated apartments. They were wrong.

Citywide

Becoming Home

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After millions of dollars in debt, 2,000 building code violations, feuds between tenant groups and stints in every management program the city has to offer, what do the residents of 640 and 644 Riverside want? Crazy as it sounds, a chance to be their own landlords.