Lower East Side
Code Enforcement, Hollywood Style
Penelope Duda |
A 1930s flick gives housing advocates a helping hand
Lower East Side
SPLIT DECISION ON SHELTER
Matt Pacenza |
A family of seven that lost its apartment to a fire just before the New Year has spent the last several weeks sleeping on friends’ couches as they challenge the city’s insistence that only two of the relatives qualify for temporary city shelter.
Jews and Judaism
THE FUTURE, TAKE TWO
K. Wright |
Community input altered the first draft of the city’s new political map, but Asian and Russian Americans say not nearly enough.
Manhattan
Out of Lines
Jamie Katz |
Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
Lower East Side
ACCESS DENIED
Jamie Katz |
Still confused as to why more low-income residents and merchants in Chinatown and the Lower East Side are not getting federal relief for the fallout from September 11, a coalition of advocates last week sued the feds.
Lower East Side
Shaky Credit
Matt Pacenza |
A depressed economy and harsh new rules are putting the squeeze on the city’s small credit unions.
Bronx
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Jill Grossman and Jamie Katz |
As the commission charged with redrawing the City Council district lines prepares to release its proposal this Friday, some of the city’s largest minority groups are poised to fight for political control in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Latino
Squatters' Rites
Robert Neuwirt |
The activists, laborers and hippies who’ve made abandoned buildings into viable homes were the scourge of City Hall. Now Loisaida’s last outlaws have become government-sponsored homeowners.
