This holiday season, more than 200,000 letters from poor
New Yorkers will plead with Santa Claus for toys, clothes, even school supplies. But how many will get what they wish for? It all depends on how visitors to a post office charity program decide who’s needy and who’s merely nice.
Videotaping criminal interrogations helps some police forces prevent false confessions. But New York brass are holding out against it, even as detectives rack up a string of bogus cases.
The D.A.’s Narcotics Eviction Program helps landlords evict drug dealers from apartment buildings. It’s been enormously successful. It also kicks out tenants who’ve done nothing wrong.
A surprisingly high number of teachers retired this September, prompting retention and hiring concerns.
A state appeals court closed the door on landlords seeking to use the “first rent” exemption to rent control laws.
Councilmember Alan Gerson wants the city to set up an 11-point plan for dealing with residential emergencies.
Rent subsidies helped revive lower Manhattan’s flagging
housing market after 9/11-and helped luxury landlords far more than downtown’s poor.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation was given $2.7 billion in federal funds to help New York recover from 9/11. Two years later, it’s failing to relieve the city’s second disaster: unrelenting unemployment
Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
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