African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts. A beauty-biased landmarks commission is to blame, but so are some community leaders.
When Kevin Heldman went undercover at Woodhull’s psychiatric unit, he wanted to experience how low-income people were treated. In 179 hours as a mental patient, he found little care and even less comfort.
Students at El Puente Academy met after school for months looking into ways to transform Williamsburg’s stagnant economy. Their solution, an open-air market, capitalizes on local talents and needs.
A coalition of outer-boro neighborhood groups is hoping to block the merger of two giant national waste-hauling companies, saying the move would overwhelm the city.
An innovative group helps women immigrants find a powerful voice through fiction and poetry.
A Sunset Park community group found a way to survive city budget cuts, but can it bring unity to a fragmented neighborhood?
Albany pol Vito Lopez lays out how he would more than double the state’s budget on housing.
Rudy Guiliani has vowed to close down Staten Island’s Fresh Kills dump by New Year’s Day 2002. All he needs to do to meet that deadline is redesign the city’s entire rail and road infrastructure, figure out a way to float 13,000 tons of garbage a day to Virginia and convince the city’s poorest neighborhoods that they would love a reeking waste transfer station in their backyard. Four years and ticking.
The city and the state have hyped their effort to rescue welfare and food stamps for legal immigrants. But the bureacracy is having a hard time changing gears.
A book review of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform, by Jean Anyon, Teachers College Press, 1997, 217 pages, $18.95.
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