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Painted into a Corner
Leon Lazaroff |
The mayor, city councilmembers, children’s advocates and landlords all agree that the city needs a new lead paint law. They just can’t decide what it should say.
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Clinically Oppressed
Idra Rosenberg |
Pregnant immigrants are shunning prenatal care for fear of deportation. What are they afraid of?
Community Service Society of New York
TIL's Ills
James Bradley and Glenn Thrush |
Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the program is a waste of tax dollars.
Family Court
New Havens
Dylan Foley |
A Park Slope battered women’s shelter is reaching out to two very different groups of women: lesbians and Arab Americans.
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The Teacher
Kemba Johnson |
He’s a karate instructor, founder of a local newspaper and a neighborhood organizer. If Joe Lopez can’t solve your problem, he’ll adopt a profession that can.
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The View
Glenn Thrush |
There is only one place in the Borough of Brooklyn where you can stand on green grass and see America.
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REV. JAMES DANIEL, JR., (1943-1998)
Kathleen McGowan |
Community organizer, pastor and fair banking advocate Rev. James Daniel, Jr., died of cancer last month.
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Margarita in the Mix
Leon Lazaroff |
From her roots in organizing to her ascension to the Lower East Side City Council seat, Margarita L
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Yonkers Race Trap
Kathleen McGowan |
After years of haggling, housing desegregation is finally a done deal in New York City’s unofficial sixth borough. Five years after 200 poor families moved out of the projects and into white neighborhoods, the fight is over. Real integration, though, hasn’t even begun.
