A young, idealistic credit union founder from Central Brooklyn tried to become Fort Greene’s City Councilmember. He failed. But what he learned will be valuable for the next crop of insurgents–the Class of 2001.
The NYPD knows how to stop police violence: Screen out bad cadets, train officers to respect their beats and identify bad cops before they kill. So why are New York’s finest failing to use the tools they have?
Twenty years ago, Assemblyman Al Vann promised to lead a grand coalition of blacks and Puerto Ricans that would run the city right–from the left. Now he’s lucky to hold onto a diminishing Bed-Stuy power base, and a united, powerful black Brooklyn is once again just a dream.
Greenpoint Bank is under investigation for selling unfair loans in poor neighborhoods, but Charles Schumer’s office says the bank’s doing good.
Tenant organizer Margarita Lopez won the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in part because of aggresive registration in the Lower East Side’s housing projects.
A rundown of some political horse races in next week’s Democratic primary.
Advocates got a little breathing room in their quest to stop a city housing authority plan to keep the poorest applicants from renting vacant apartments.
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center is a cavernous schoolhouse crammed with theater, painting, sculpture and dance. Where else can you catch a genuine Punch-and-Rudy show, or the first New York International Fringe Theater Festival?
Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is famous for cultivating grassroots support. So why is she plotting a Clintonesque media campaign in her race to become New York’s first woman mayor?
A libel lawsuit is the latest chapter in a fight for a parcel in land in East Brooklyn between a coleslaw factory and parents who want a new school.
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