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City Lit: Bronx Tales
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian LeBlanc, reviewed by Clarence A. Haynes, and Doña Julia by Alberto Cappas, reviewed by Kenyon Farrow. By: By Clarence A....
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New Activities Needed For Thousands of Kids
More than 100 afterschool programs aren't funded for next year. By: By Rob Fischer Next year at M.S. 118 in the Bronx, sixth, seventh and eighth graders won't have the structured afterschool...
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Bronx Activist Aims To Unseat Weakened Espada
Photo by: Yorman Nunez Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a veteran Bronx activist, announces her candidacy for Sen. Pedro Espada's seat on April 17. An activist's bid to unseat State Sen. Pedro Espada may have...
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HPD: Prevent Cycle Of Foreclosure & Displacement
Photo by: Marc Fader Cinthia Caimares, who has lived at 2500 University Avenue -- a Milbank property -- for about 2 years, is a student at Bronx Community College and works at Yankee Stadium on the...
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Homelessness Strikes More NYC Children
The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report. By: Kelly Virella The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City...
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One Woman's Plan to Beat Poverty
Photo by: Marc Fader Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her move from...
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Bloomberg Housing Plan Hits Milestones, Obstacles
Photo by: City Hall Mayor Bloomberg and other officials pictured in 2010 as they celebrated the completion of the 100,000th unit of housing under his 2003-2014 housing place. The mayor's ambitious...
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A Cop's Death Accelerates the City's War on Crack
Photo by: Lizzie Ford-Madrid Special Agent John Gilbride, seen holding a bad containing seized cocaine, runs the New York office of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "This is crack cocaine seized a...
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Census Worry: Whither Williamsburg?
Fort Totten has stood up to be counted. Williamsburg has gone missing. In an effort to bolster flagging participation in the 2010 Census, City Hall on Wednesday provided a neighborhood-by-neighborhood...
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Bronx Activist Aims To Unseat Weakened Espada
Photo by: Yorman Nunez Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a veteran Bronx activist, announces her candidacy for Sen. Pedro Espada's seat on April 17. When Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter announced her candidacy for the...
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HPD: Prevent Cycle Of Foreclosure & Displacement
Photo by: Marc Fader Cinthia Caimares, who has lived at 2500 University Avenue -- a Milbank property -- for about 2 years, is a student at Bronx Community College and works at Yankee Stadium on the...
View ArticleHomelessness Strikes More NYC Children
The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children. The number of...
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One Woman's Plan to Beat Poverty
Photo by: Marc Fader Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her move from...
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Bloomberg Housing Plan Hits Milestones, Obstacles
Photo by: City Hall Mayor Bloomberg and other officials pictured in 2010 as they celebrated the completion of the 100,000th unit of housing under his 2003-2014 housing place. Outside the brown brick...
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City, AIDS Activists Clash Over Fees
Photo by: Marc Fader Betsy Idelfonso, who is HIV positive, in the bedroom she hopes her twins will share when she regains custody of them. She blames city policy changes for the seven months it took...
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Top Issue in Brownsville: Fear of the Teens, Fear for the Teens
Photo by: Anthony Lanzilote Brownsville has less violent crime than it did 10 years ago, but residents are split on whether conditions are deteriorating now. This article is an installment in The Five...
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For Sunset Park, Proposed BRT Routes Could Help Foster Jobs
Photo by: Pratt Center Oen proposed route would go from Sunset Park to JFK through southeast Brooklyn neighborhoods cutting a 90-minute best-case transit route to 75 minutes. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT),...
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