Times Square
City Lit: Parachute Landing
Annia Ciezadlo |
Coney Island: Lost and Found, written and designed by Charles Denson.
Times Square
A Shot in the Dark
Keith Meatto |
Formerly homeless New Yorkers show the world from their point of view from behind a camera.
Coney Island
Coney Island Hig
Annia Ciezadlo |
The same blend of magnetism and relentlessness that made Aida Leon a successful drug dealer have made her Coney Island’s messiah of clean living. Can her small army of former addicts turned activists save the neighborhood too?
Times Square
Beyond the Bowery
Bob Roberts |
An aging flophouse is getting a full makeover, with Japanese-style cubicles and attentive caseworkers. With the new digs come new neighbors–and for old-timers, a reckoning with a dying way of life.
Michael Bloomberg
Swimming in Sludge
Mia Lipsit |
Sewage tank turns rec center, or is it the perfect pawn?
Latino
Moving to Queens
Corey Takahashi |
Culture wars have a whole different meaning in the city’s Indo-Caribbean nightclub scene, where ethnicity, music and sex collide and blend to the beat of the new New Yorker.
Manhattan
SHORT ON SHELTER, THE CITY PUTS FAMILIES IN A FELON'S HOTEL
Jill Grossman |
In the city’s search for hotel rooms to house an overflow of homeless families in city shelters, the Department of Homeless Services has begun placing families in a building whose owner has a record of building code violations and criminal convictions for harassment.
Citywide
Changing with the Times Square
Beverly Cheuvront |
The Times Square Hotel is a story of succesful evolution, going from a hazardous horror show to a model for supporting the formerly homeless. But it may remain the exception, not the rule.
Times Square
RECIPIENTS NOT SEEN, HEARD
Matt Pacenza |
With a year left until the nation’s welfare law comes up for reauthorization, New York’s welfare commissioners argued for the right to limit spending on poverty-fighting programs at the first round of the feds’ listening tour last week.
Times Square
The Norman Invasion
Annia Ciezadlo |
Civil rights champion Norman Siegel wants the public advocate to be the city’s professional rabble-rouser, coordinating demonstrations instead of reports. Did Mark Green have it all wrong?
