Lower East Side Archives : Page 11 of 22 : City Limits

Adios Nueva York: Reading Railroad

Debbie Nathan | August 15, 2004

Reading, PA opens its doors to Nuyoricans

A Clean Start

Kai Wright | June 15, 2004

He’s zapped tuberculosis and stamped out smoking.
Now Tom Frieden wants to take on AIDS.
But can New York’s haughty health commissioner convince Queens its neighborhoods need clean needles?

Return Address

Sasha Abramsky | May 15, 2004

Law enforcement and social workers alike say the Fortune Academy is a model for sending prisoners back home safely.

CREDIT UNIONS GET A BOOST FROM ALBANY

Elizabeth Cady Brown | April 19, 2004

Struggling to stay afloat, credit unions may soon be able to get government incentives once reserved for banks.

Real estate speculation threatens to squeeze successful manufacturing businesses out of New York City. Now the City Council considers a way to help everyone win: charging housing developers who build on industrial turf a fee to help salvage jobs

Lower East Side

Betting on a Green Building Boom

Elizabeth Cady Brown | March 15, 2004

New York is poised to host a wave of environmentally sound construction. But if you want a blueprint, don’t look to the city’s new building code–industry activists are working to spark a marketplace revolution.

Latino

Show Me the Money (and Some Creative ID)

Amy Zimmer and Xiaoqing Rong | February 15, 2004

Homeland Security officials say they want better banking security, but financial institutions are paying no mind: Hungry to make money off of undocumented workers, banks are deciding for themselves who their customers are.

Latino

AIDS Goes Gray

Kai Wright and LeRoy Whitfield | January 15, 2004

Two decades have passed. Medicine has advanced. People are living longer. But what will happen when an intricate and expensive safety net can’t keep up?