Rudy Giuliani
GIULIANI TIME?
S. Sarkar |
New documentary draws anger from audience in Crown Heights.
Manhattan
NEW HOMELESS FRINGE: COALITION GETS SNUBBED
Geoffrey Gray |
What happens to a hard-line group when city government is no longer the enemy?
Homelessness
AIDS SERVICES UP FOR GRABS
Geoffrey Gray |
HASA’s new contracting plan may run afoul of city law.
Christine Quinn
MAYOR TO KEEP AIDS SERVICES CITY-RUN, EYES REORGANIZATION
Kai Wright |
To the relief of the AIDS community, Mayor Bloomberg agreed not to contract out AIDS services as part of a preliminary budget deal with the Council last week-but his plan to shuffle around oversight of those services continues to keep advocates on edge.
Rudy Giuliani
PILOT GROUNDED
K. Wright |
A state court has officially declared the Council’s 2000 effort to reshape the city’s welfare-to-work program invalid.
Rudy Giuliani
CITY’S LATE HOUSING PARTY
Matt Pacenza |
Third party transfer was supposed to be the city’s next big housing program, but the most recent round announced last week is much smaller than expected.
Rudy Giuliani
THE MISSING PATHMARK FUND
Daniel Hendrick |
As a promise to help mom and pop shops stand their ground when a Pathmark opened in southwestern Queens a few years ago, the City Council passed a law establishing a small business assistance fund. Two years later, however, the fund remains empty, and local businesses are slowly shutting down.
Bronx
Big Red School House
Steven Gnagni |
After years of pushing for the construction of a few new schools in the long-unused Kingsbridge Armory–with little response from the mayor’s office–some Bronx residents recently got their first sign that their proposal could happen when Bloomberg officials said they would look into it.
City Hall
MOE BITTER BLUES: WELFARE CUTS FOR A SUFFERING CITY
Matt Pacenza |
A proposed federal recession relief package will allow the state and city to spend $110 million less on poverty measures this year.
Government
STOPPED PAYMENT
Carlos Perkins |
A push to expand rent relief to New Yorkers with disabilities seemed to have tremendous support in Albany, until a plea from Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped the bill in its tracks.
