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FIGHTING THE SOUTH BRONX STINK: A COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER

Julia Taylor | September 29, 2003

Local groups put aside their differences and team up to fight air pollution and asthma.

BLOOMBERG HOPES CITY CAN WIN SOME WHILE LOSING SOME

City Limits | November 18, 2002

The mayor’s latest financial plan may not be as across the board as he’s claimed–homeless services do better than most.

Filipino immigrants thought they had lucked out when they discovered a job placement agency that focused on finding jobs for people from their country. But after weeks of not getting paid, they took their complaints to the state Department of Labor, which is now investigating the firm.

Organizing

CITY LIENS ON POOR HOMEOWNERS

Matt Pacenza | July 16, 2001

Activists were dismayed to learn the City Council has quietly approved a two-year extension of a program for dealing with homeowners with large tax debts, fearing that without a change, poor elderly homeowners will continue to lose their houses in large numbers.

Homelessness

SURVEY SAYS: TELL US HOW YOU LIKE IT

City Limits | July 9, 2001

Our annual survey of the Weekly’s readers.

Bronx

THE NEW ECONOMY COMES TO THE GOOD OLD BRONX

| December 11, 2000

In a newly digitized building in the South Bronx, woodworkers and furniture makers worry they’ll be replaced by dot-coms.

Economy

AFL-CIO THROWS GOP LOVEFEST, LAUGHS AT LONELY LIBRARIANS

Annia Ciezadlo | September 11, 2000

Despite a few feeble “nays,” the vote at the state’s AFL-CIO convention was a typical landslide of endorsements for a politically expedient slate of Republicans.