A plan to build hundreds of units of housing in Bushwick passed phase I of the land-use approval process last week, taking a step closer to becoming one of the first “brownfields” to be developed in the state.
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.
A lawsuit challenges welfare offices’ ban on bringing a friend.
Bushwick teens protest the lack of youth programs in their neighborhood.
If, by chance, you were idly wondering what Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Locklear and Miss USA 1999 might have to contribute to the struggle for community change, listen up.
A quick survey of a handful of homes in Bushwick shows that lead paint and little children share many more apartments than you might think.
An coalition of advocates is taking the city to court over its unwillingness to translate welfare and food stamp assistance into other languages.
An organizing drive at the city’s Clinton welfare center hopes to change some caseworkers’ bad habits.
Que? A new study shows that most Spanish-speaking applicants for welfare had trouble communicating with their caseworkers, and a lawsuit follows.
Kids take mics into an infamous hospital to see if the rumors are true.
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