Latino

Zoning Bout

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Targeting new terrain to cure its housing crunch, Williamsburg’s Hasidic community is using a legal loophole to build up Bed-Stuy–driving neighborhood residents to court or out altogether.

Citywide

Subtraction Lesson

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School choice is supposed to reward success and punish failure–and that’s exactly happening at the lackluster I.S. 70 in Chelsea. But when a sub-par school gets shut down, it’s not clear who benefits.

Latino

Green With Envy

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Neighborhood environmental justice groups have labored in obscurity for years, picketing polluters and tilting at transfer stations. Now, as national evironmental organizations are eyeing their street-level work, some wonder whether New York’s “EJ” groups will keep it real.

Bronx

Don't Bank On It

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As banks reinvent themselves with mega-mergers, community developers worry what the new financial order will bring. Could the fall of neighborhood banks bring neighborhoods down, too?

Staten Island

Fantasy Island

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Mariners Harbor was supposed to make Staten Island a manufacturing mecca. But by hunting for headlines instead of plans that create jobs, city officials are squandering the borough’s big chance.

Latino

The Color of Money

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Where foundations traditionally put minority communities on the receiving end of their support, three budding New York endowments are counting on successful African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans to put their dollars where their identities are.