When Maria Jay-Vega came to New York in the early 1980s, she couldn’t understand English–or why the Board of Education was trying to put her son in Special Ed. Now she’s on the verge of founding New York’s first parent-teacher-run school in East Brooklyn.
A group of Bronx tenants can make a federal case out of their lawsuit alleging the city does a better job of housing code enforcement in white neighobhroods.
In communities of color, skewed appraisals knock property values down.
Some pundits say the influence of political action committees is waning. But in New York, where the perception of power is as important as the real thing, a player without a PAC is prey. City Limits picks ten power PACs you need to watch.
A City Limits analysis of mayoral candidate Ferbando Ferrer’s campaign filings shows $20,000 in campaign support from the city’s top landlord lobbying group since 1994.
A book review of Children, Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner University Press of Virginia, 1996, 258 pages, $29.95.
Sure, the landlord lobby loves Republicans. But wait till you hear their plan to turn New York City’s Democratic legislators into pawns in the rent-regulation endgame.
One of the sponosors of a rent-deposit law agrees to tenants’ demand that she drop the hated measure.
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