Bronx
Battle Plan Vs. Illegal Housing
Kalyn Belsha |
After recent city and state attempts to curtail underground housing, advocates are calling for long-term solutions.
Bronx
Cops May Change Frisk Tactics
Hannah Rappleye |
After years of complaints from some residents, the NYPD and NYCHA are meeting with tenants about police policies in public housing.
Bronx
Getting From Here To There
Emily Keller |
With deep transit cuts in the works, activists and officials prescribe new ways to travel around the city.
Economy
A Minefield for Obama
Jarrett Murphy |
When will the President address the disproportionate color of unemployment?
ARTS and CULTURE
Immigrants Reach New Heights
Curtis Stephen |
With city and state turmoil shaking up political alignments, some see a new opening for growing ethnic groups to claim power.
ARTS and CULTURE
A Quiet Alarm Sounds
David Alm |
A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.
Health and Environment
Making Public Housing Public
Bendix Anderson |
Ideas for weaving public housing back into the city’s social fabric.
Bronx
When Your Dad's Behind Bars
Patrick Egan |
To one boy in Bed-Stuy, a program for children of the incarcerated makes a difference.
Bronx
An Act of Faith
Helen Zelon |
The HCZ model might not work in every depressed urban center. But something else might work in those cities—or might already be working, albeit outside the media spotlight or the White House’s embrace.William Strickland, like Canada, has dedicated most of his adult life to working to counter urban poverty. He established the nonprofit Manchester Bidwell Corp. in 1968, in Pittsburgh’s toughest district, first as an arts education resource for local schoolchildren and later, when Pittsburgh’s steel industry collapsed, to provide vocational training for unemployed workers. Today, the corporation works with Pittsburgh public schools, placing artists in the classroom and offering a broad swath of after-school, summer and evening programs for kids and adults.An overwhelming majority of teenagers who participate in Strickland’s programs—90 percent—graduate from high school.
Bronx
Taking It Local
Rachel Dodakian |
The Comprehensive Community Revitalization Program (CCRP), which ran from 1992 through 1998, concentrated its efforts on struggling South Bronx neighborhoods along the Cross Bronx Expressway that had since the 1960s and 1970s been battling depopulation, arson, declining business activity and job loss.
