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ILGO QUIETLY: ST. PAT'S PROTESTERS STUCK IN THE CLINK
Gay and lesbian St. Pat's parade protesters discover that these days, civil disobedience is viewed a bit more harshly by New York City's authorities. By: Sajan P. Kuriakos It's a rite of spring: Every...
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PHIL-ED WITH HOT AIR
Phil Gramm says advocates use the Community Reivestment Act to shake down banks. The statistics say otherwise. By: Kathleen McGowan When Republican Senator Phil Gramm took over the Senate Banking...
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FIGHTING THE SOUTH BRONX STINK: A COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER
Local groups put aside their differences and team up to fight air pollution and asthma. By: By Julia Taylor The smell emanating from the New York Organic Fertilizer Company in Hunts Point defies...
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Students Protest Armory's Disappearing High Schools
A painstakingly negotiated redevelopment plan was to include two new schools - but now there are none. By: Eileen Markey The shouts of Bronx high school students penetrated a driving rain as several...
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All Together Now: Toward A Better Land Use Process
An expert in local "progressive community-based planning" explains what that means and how to do it. By: By Nicholas Jahr New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, by Tom...
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Parents, Pols Push Alternative To School Closings
Photo by: Marc Fader Norman Thomas High School M620 on East 33rd Street in Manhattan, one of 19 schools the New York City Department of Education planned to close this year before a judge stopped...
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Tenants & Pols Protest Handling of Housing Vouchers
36 former voucher holders and a coterie of political figures rallied on the steps of City Hall today, demanding that Mayor Bloomberg take action to solve the ongoing crisis. By: Eileen Markey It's...
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Vandals Deface LGBT Homeless Shelter For Youth
The attack came two days after a New York State Senate bill that would have outlawed discrimination against transgender and gender-bending people was defeated. By: Kelly Virella Two days after a New...
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Why Wait For The State? City Racing To Budget Deal
As the City Council heads toward a budget deal with the mayor by the end of the week, activists hoping to fend off cuts are turning up the pressure on members. By: Jarrett Murphy Mayor Bloomberg and...
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Bronx Museum Revisits The Civil Rights Movement
Photo by: Bob Adelman Photographer: Bob Adelman Mule Wagon for the Poor People's Campaign, Memphis, Tennessee 1968 Two exhibits at the Bronx Museum of the Arts explore the civil rights movement -- one...
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Lunch At Junior's: Reputation & Reality In Today’s Brooklyn
Photo by: Marc Fader Junior's, a 60-year-old institution, is "as Brooklyn as it gets." But the Junior's brand is known well beyond the borough's borders. Somewhere on the westbound Brooklyn-Queens...
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Battling Iran's Government … From New York
Photo by: Marc Fader Bitta Mostofi, an Iranian immigration lawyer in New York who works with activists in Iran. Inspired by the success of recent protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Iranians took to the...
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What Cuts Will Cost: Children's Learning, Parents' Work
Photo by: Marc Fader Andrea Anthony, the executive director of the Day Care Council of New York, an umbrella group for day care centers, is part of a coalition of providers, parents and advocates who...
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The Principal Is New. The School Is Closing.
Photo by: Marc Fader Stefanie Siegel has been on the staff at Paul Robeson High School since before many of her students were born. She says the new principal has brought palpable sense of relief to...
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A Crisis Beyond The Cuts: Help For New York's Seniors Ebbs
Photo by: Patrick Egan Case manager Javier Osorio visits Grace Moore in her Brooklyn apartment. The second Javier Osorio walked into Grace Moore's Brooklyn apartment early on a mid-July morning, Moore...
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For Some, Occupy Movement is a Test of Faith
Photo by: Adi Talwar Protesters outside 26 Federal Plaza, where religious activists stage a weekly prayer demonstration against immigration policies. Thirty-two days after they had been evicted from...
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Cops Want Crime Watchers on 34 Bushwick Blocks
Photo by: Tobias Salinger Residents on Gates Avenue between Evergreen and Central Avenues in Bushwick say this vacant house is a frequent location of crime. The 83rd Precinct is encouraging residents...
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Spring Creek Builder's Promises Spur Cheers, Jeers
Photo by: Abigail Savitch-Lew Construction workers with Andre Mitchell, in white shirt, the executive director of Man Up! and lead negotiator of the Community Benefits Agreement for Gateway II. Andre...
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Campaign 2013, Seen from Brownsville
Photo by: Kirsti Itameri Since February, we've followed the 2013 campaign mainly through interviews with people in and around a single block in Brownsville, at the corner of Blake Avenue and Powell...
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Crime Low, But Citizens Still Want to Fight It
Photo by: Adi Talwar Frank A. Kotnick, Jr. president of the Glendale Civilian Patrol, gets a radio call while making his rounds one night in April. The Glendale group is one of several citizen...
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