Bronx
EDC Cash Clash: Is It Payback Time?
Neil deMause |
The comptroller says the Economic Development Corporation has improperly kept $125 million in city money. Can he get it back?
Bronx
Fewer Services For The Homeless
Eileen Markey |
Mayor Bloomberg’s big goals to cut homelessness in half and greatly expand affordable housing are being reinterpreted in the next budget.
Citywide
The Long Road Of A Creative Civic Servant
Stephen Burzio |
The policy innovations of city government and nonprofit fixture Herb Sturz over half a century form the basis for a book that’s both a biography and modern history.
Justice
Casualty of War: One Addict's Saga of Punishment
Sean Gardiner |
By his own count, during his years as an addict Casimiro Steven Torres piled up 67 arrests for a variety of petty and not-so-petty crimes.
Citywide
The Eyes Have It: NYPD Plans More Cameras
Ali Winston |
The police department plans to install hundreds of additional video surveillance cameras around Manhattan, and the entire city.
Citywide
On The Art That's All Around Us
Rosten Woo |
In very different ways, two new books give context to artworks on the walls and in the plazas.
ARTS and CULTURE
Some Work the Overnight While Others Decorate It
Curtis Stephen |
Two new books illuminate some of New York City’s darker corners.
Bronx
A Ballot's Breadth Away From Rejoining Society
Curtis Stephen |
Many ex-offenders want to reclaim their vote. But one month before the presidential election, confusion about eligibility still reigns.
Bronx
What the Other Half Thinks
Karen Loew |
Along with incomes in the four to five digits comes a dimmer view of lifting term limits.
Manhattan
Who's Afraid Of A Peaceful Biker?
Stuart Post |
A spontaneous evening goes awry, leaving skid marks on this cyclist’s view of his city.
