Bronx
HOLY HEADACHE: TENANTS ASK
CHURCH TO SAVE THEIR HOUSING
Cassi Feldman |
Residents attempt to untangle a complicated web of responsibility that has left their homes in jeopardy.
ARTS and CULTURE
OBJECTS OF THEIR AFFECTION: EXHIBIT
OFFERS WINDOW INTO IMMIGRANT LIVES
Laura Silver |
New installation at Lower East Side Tenement Museum gives immigrants a chance to express themselves through personal artifacts, stories, drawings and collage.
Lower East Side
Art of Survival
Dan Bell |
Rethinking Rape: A therapist in Harlem is changing the way people think of rape, and helping victims in the process.
Center for an Urban Future
The New Safety Net?
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We’re spending more to help workers with low wages than we ever spent on welfare checks. Why that’s both good and bad–and what it means for New York.
Lower East Side
ARTY PARTY
T. Adams |
Seedco and Henry Street Settlement recruit wannabe dancers, designers and other creative types for a new program focused on careers in the arts. Here’s a look at its first open house.
Lower East Side
CityLit: Screed Is Good
David Jason Fischer |
The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today By Steven Malanga.
Bronx
PRIMARY 2005: CITY COUNCIL RACES TO WATCH
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Welcome to August in New York, a month of humidity, vacations–and political warfare. While many of the primary races are all sewn up, a few of them are just getting interesting. City Limits takes a look at the good, the bad and the ugly.
Lower East Side
Bad Medicine
City Limits |
Illegal drug trading has found a new niche, in HIV and AIDS medications bought by Medicaid, then peddled on the street. The cost is high: millions of dollars in fraud, and a rapid decline in patients’ health.
Lower East Side
Housing Gets Organized
Robert Neuwirth |
Housing groups reconnect with neighborhoods.
Bill Clinton
The Match Game
Mark Winston Griffith |
Individual Development Accounts were the hot antipoverty idea of the 1990s, and tens of thousands of striving Americans now watch their money get matched and grow. Does it matter that most of them weren’t poor to begin with?
