- Sarah Crean on Exclusive: Proposed policy would allow industries to self-audit pollution-generating activities
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Take A Look At The New West Side Neighborhood (WNYC, May 6, 2013)
Sheik May Be Looking To Fund Soccer Franchise In Queens (NY Times, Apr 29, 2013)
Crumbling Courthouse In Rockaways Set To Become Health Clinic (Wall Street Journal, Apr 29, 2013)
Former Inmates Struggle To Learn New Technologies (WNYC, Mar 26, 2013)
In Area Plagued By Violence, A ‘God Squad’ Hits The Streets (NY Times, Mar 26, 2013)
Chelsea Galleries Squeezed By Development (WNYC, Mar 4, 2013)
Reclaiming Storm-Torn Homes, Step By Uncertain Step (NY Times, Feb 26, 2013)
‘Organic’ Dry Cleaners Can Serve as Barometer of Gentrification (NY Times, Feb 19, 2013)
Could NYC Set Up Its Own Louisiana Land Trust? (Capital, Feb 6, 2013)
Housing Authority to Lease Playgrounds, Community Centers for Luxury High-Rises (Daily News, Feb 6, 2013)
"Energy Highway” Seeks Indian Point Alternatives (City Hall, Jan 31, 2013)
From Salt Marshes to Sea Barriers, Preparing for the Next Sandy Defense (WNYC, Jan 30, 2013)
New Data Shows Uneven Gentrification in Brooklyn (The Atlantic Cities, Jan 3, 2013)
NYPL Shows Off Renderings Of Fifth Ave Flagship Renovation (Crain's, Dec 20, 2012)
A Month After Hurricane Sandy, Midland Beach Still Reels (Staten Island Advance, Dec 3, 2012)
Will NYC Act to Block Future Storm Surges? (Associated Press, Nov 26, 2012)
Weekday Volunteers in High Demand for Clean Up in the Rockaways (Daily News, Nov 19, 2012)
Underneath Dozens of Manhattan Buildings Lies a Thicket of Storm Problems (Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2012)
Effort to Speed Up Repairs Will Save the City $200 Million (NY Times, Oct 18, 2012)
Development Deal to Bail Out Yankee Stadium Parking Lot Fiasco Stalls (Daily News, Oct 16, 2012)
Local businesses assess impact of Barclays Arena (WNYC, Oct 15, 2012)
Interest lags in rent-stabilized apartments in Lower Manhattan (Wall Street Journal, Oct 5, 2012)
Nearly 4,000 participants in Bloomberg's program for young minority men (Albany Times Union, Oct 5, 2012)
Barclays Center in Brooklyn expected to officially open on Friday (Daily News, Sep 21, 2012)
New York is lagging as seas and risks rise, critics warn (NY Times, Sep 11, 2012)
Bloomberg says city needs more natural gas (Associated Press, Aug 28, 2012)
Indian Point shutdown could trigger blackouts: study (NY Post, Aug 27, 2012)
Bars around Barclays tread fine line between locals and arena visitors (WNYC, Aug 6, 2012)
NYC opens employment center for veterans (WNYC, Aug 1, 2012)
Queens residents urge city to install sewers on flood-prone block (Daily News, Jul 10, 2012)
City agency admits illegal lobbying effort (Wall Street Journal, Jul 3, 2012)
Controversial compost site in Bronx park slated to reopen this year (Daily News, Jun 26, 2012)
Developer to buy former Brooklyn Domino factory (NY Post, Jun 22, 2012)
City's refusal to tear down Sheridan Expressway irks activists, locals (WNYC, Jun 13, 2012)
Plan to extend natural gas pipeline through Rockaways gets chilly reception (Daily News, Jun 13, 2012)
City vying to become global high-tech hub (Associated Press, May 29, 2012)
Upper East Side Trash Plan Price Frustrates Opponents (Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2012)
Traffic Plan for a Brooklyn Arena Cuts Parking Slots by Half (NY Times, May 23, 2012)
Getting Lessons on Water by Designing a Playground (NY Times, May 8, 2012)
City Pension Funds Against Wal-Mart (Reuters, May 1, 2012)
Bird Strikes Renew Opposition to Trash Station in Queens (Daily News, May 1, 2012)
Only One-Fifth of Croton Water Plant Workers are from the Bronx (Daily News, May 1, 2012)
Federal Criminal Background Check Rule Could Conflict with State's (WNYC, Apr 27, 2012)
Push to Give Midsize Farms a Hub at a Bronx Market (NY Times, Apr 25, 2012)
Hollis Community Leaders Aim to Take Back Abandoned Buildings (Daily News, Apr 19, 2012)
Park Slope is Now Home to the City’s Largest Historic District (NY Post, Apr 18, 2012)
Impact of Atlantic Yards, for Good or Ill, Is Already Felt (NY Times, Apr 17, 2012)
Advocates Want Fairness in Siting of Waste Transfer Stations (Daily News, Apr 9, 2012)
Libraries Rethink Their Role in City (Wall Street Journal, Apr 9, 2012)
Flooded Queens Homes Won't See Relief Until 2019 (Daily News, Apr 3, 2012)
Microloans for Local Small Businesses (NY Times, Apr 2, 2012)
City Pushing Mini MBA Courses for Small Business Owners (Daily News, Mar 27, 2012)
City Comptroller Audit Targets Tax Breaks (Wall Street Journal, Mar 20, 2012)
Community Complains About World Trade Center Site Security Plan (WNYC, Mar 15, 2012)
Microloans Helping Bronx Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses (Daily News, Mar 14, 2012)
Will New York City Get A Subway For Garbage? (Forbes, Mar 13, 2012)
City's Business Incubator in Jamaica Near-Empty (NY Post, Mar 12, 2012)
City Launches $12 Million Effort to Stop Sewer Overflows with Green Projects (Daily News, Mar 12, 2012)
Hope for Relief from Flooding in Southeast Queens (City Limits, Mar 8, 2012)
Green Building in the Bronx Draws Professionals as Residents (Wall Street Journal, Mar 6, 2012)
Bronx Borough President to Highlight Business Deals in State of Borough Address (Daily News, Feb 23, 2012)
Park Slope Food Co-op Readies for Boycott Vote on Israeli Products (Wall Street Journal, Feb 21, 2012)
City to Give Fresh Direct $83.5 Million in Tax Breaks (Daily News, Feb 15, 2012)
Thruway Seeks Local Vendors for Farmers Markets (Associated Press, Feb 10, 2012)
Yankee Stadium Parking Garages Hardly Used (Daily News, Feb 3, 2012)
Unease Lingers Amid a Rebirth in Crown Heights (NY Times, Feb 1, 2012)
Proposal to Cut Some Felonies From Records (NY Times, Jan 31, 2012)
SoHo Improvement District Criticized (NY Times, Jan 30, 2012)
The Challenges Facing Green Cart Vendors (City Limits, Jan 17, 2012)
Overhaul of Possibly Futureless Javits Center to Cost $463 Million (NY Post, Jan 17, 2012)
Bloomberg to Announce New Proposals for Kingsbridge Armory (NY Post, Jan 12, 2012)
Director of Brooklyn Boss's Social Services Agency Fired (NY Post, Jan 5, 2012)
Food Stamps Increasingly Deployed at Greenmarkets (WNYC, Jan 4, 2012)
First Sales in Program Buying Foreclosed Property for Affordable Housing (NY Post, Dec 22, 2011)
City Plans Permanent Light Show for Lower Manhattan (NY Post, Dec 13, 2011)
Cuomo Plan Pits Region Against Region in Race for Development Dollars (MetroFocus, Nov 30, 2011)
Regions to Compete for State Economic Development Money (NY Times, Nov 14, 2011)
State Development Council Seeks to Aid Plan for City Tech Campus (Crain's, Nov 9, 2011)
Turning Empty Spaces Into Cultural Pop-Ups (MetroFocus, Nov 2, 2011)
Community Board Passes Resolution Limiting Protest Noise (Associated Press, Oct 26, 2011)
Tax Breaks Attract Pearson to Manhattan (Businessweek, Sep 20, 2011)
City Gives $50 Million in Subsidies to Lure Pearson (Crain's, Sep 20, 2011)
Pearson to Put 600 Jobs in Lower Manhattan (NY Times, Sep 20, 2011)
Pearson Plays New York Against New Jersey (NY Times, Sep 20, 2011)
Pearson Signs Lease on Hudson Street Building (Real Deal, Sep 19, 2011)
Property Owners Oppose Chinatown Business Improvement District (Daily News, Aug 1, 2011)
City Battles to Keep Ancient Water Mains and Tunnels Functioning (Daily News, Jul 28, 2011)
Coney Island, Brighton Beach See Economic Boom (Daily News, Jul 26, 2011)
Wal-Mart Gives City $4 Million, Winning Praise from Bloomberg (City Room, Jul 6, 2011)
In Fight Against Trash Station, Upper East Side Cites Injustice (NY Times, Jul 1, 2011)
New Stadiums Foul Out With Merchants (Wall Street Journal, Jul 1, 2011)
Stores Fear Increase in Parking Meter Rates Will Hurt Business. (Daily News, Jun 12, 2011)
A New Kind of Manufacturing Finds a Home in New York (NY Post, Jun 12, 2011)
Wal-Mart Said to Be Eying Site on Bensonhurst Waterfront (NY Post, Jun 12, 2011)
Hunts Point Market Will Remain in the Bronx for Now (WNYC, Jun 2, 2011)
Far Rockaway Now Home to Arts, Sustainability Efforts (Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2011)
New Bills Make Clean Sweep Of City Parking Rules (Gotham Gazette, Apr 29, 2011)
Williamsburg Community Board Mulls Moratorium on Liquor Licenses (Wall Street Journal, Apr 19, 2011)
City, Other Governments in Area to Focus on Development Around Transit Hubs (Wall Street Journal, Apr 15, 2011)
It's Official -- Walcott Gets His Waiver to Become Chancellor (Crain's, Apr 15, 2011)
Local Businesses Split Over Wal-Mart (Crain's, Feb 23, 2011)
City Seeks Applied-Science Research Facility (City Hall, Jan 31, 2011)
Real Estate Developers Prosper Despite Defaults (NY Times, Jan 2, 2011)
More and More, New York Runs on Dunkin' (Crain's, Dec 22, 2010)
Real Estate Slumps Opens Opportunities for New Schools (NY Times, Dec 22, 2010)
Walmart Opponents Take Fight to Albany (Daily News, Dec 15, 2010)
City Council to Consider Impact Wal-Mart Could Have on City (Crain's, Nov 30, 2010)
School Brings Farming to City (Wall Street Journal, Nov 5, 2010)
Nordstrom to Open Charitable Concept Store (USA Today, Oct 29, 2010)
City Small Businesses Pessimistic About the Future (Crain's, Oct 19, 2010)
Too Many Shoppers Flock to Park Slope Food Co-op (Wall Street Journal, Oct 15, 2010)
Economic Development Corp. Billed City for Expensive Travel (Daily News, Sep 5, 2010)
Attacks, Security Hurting Business in Port Richmond, Merchants Say (Staten Island Advance, Aug 25, 2010)
Grocery Stores in Poor Neighborhood Can be Viable, Study Finds (Crain's, Aug 1, 2010)
Agency to Pay City $120 Million (NY Times, Jul 27, 2010)
Hundreds of Buildings Fall Behind in Taxes, Repairs (NY Times, Jul 19, 2010)
Big Drop in Community Lending by Banks (Crain's, Jul 16, 2010)
Broadway Triangle Plan Hits Snag in Court (Crain's, Jul 3, 2010)
Council Split Over Plan for Housing at Former Domino Refinery (NY Times, Jun 23, 2010)
Empire Zone Program to be Scrapped (Associated Press, Jun 18, 2010)
Developers, Residents Offer Competing Visions of Chinatown (Wall Street Journal, Jun 14, 2010)
Downtown Manhattan Continues to Grow (Crain's, May 19, 2010)
Bar Association Opposes Benefits Agreements (NY Times, Apr 28, 2010)
Willets Point Owners Step Up Fight Against City Development Plan (Crain's, Feb 24, 2010)
New York's Community-Labor Divide (Village Voice, Dec 24, 2009)
Gowanus Canal: Clean It up, But How? (WNYC, Dec 9, 2009)
Influx of Tour Buses Bothers Residents (am New York, Nov 12, 2009)
A Co-Housing Community Grows in Brooklyn (New York Magazine, Nov 12, 2009)
Brokers Give Birth to New Neighborhoods (Daily News, Nov 9, 2009)
Ground Zero Security Bunker Plans Incomplete (Daily News, Nov 8, 2009)
Landmarked Tree Gets Chopped Up (NY Times, Oct 6, 2009)
Staten Island Sees Projects Move in Election Year (Staten Island Advance, Sep 29, 2009)
A Plan to Add Supermarkets to Poor Areas (NY Times, Sep 24, 2009)
Lack of Radio Frequencies Encourages Pirate Radio (El Taxista, Sep 24, 2009)
Borough President Rejects Plan for Kingsbridge Armory (Crain's, Sep 7, 2009)
Group Improperly Paid by City to Lobby the City? (NY Times, Aug 21, 2009)
East River Esplanade Takes Step Forward (Metro, Aug 19, 2009)
Stalled Brooklyn Project to Get Stimulus Money (NY Post, Aug 18, 2009)
High Line plan Taxing for Local Community (The Villager, Aug 16, 2009)
Some community members believe that the High Line’s recently proposed improvement district will unfairly force local residents and property owners to pay for the elevated greenway, charged a group of Chelsea neighbors who don’t think the community should have to pony up for the public “park in the sky.”
Ratner Races to Atlantic Yards' Finish Line (NY Times, Aug 10, 2009)
City Tilting Contracts to Minorities, Women (NY Post, Aug 6, 2009)
Developer Threatens Coney Island Plan (Associated Press, Jul 22, 2009)
Many New Yorkers Live in Zip Codes Without Banks (WNYC, Jul 14, 2009)
City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup (NY Times, Jul 1, 2009)
Parks Advocates Envy Highline Security (Daily News, Jun 10, 2009)
State Will Get Private Firms to Repair City Bridges (AM New York, Jun 2, 2009)
Recession Derails Development Plans for Southeast Queens (NY 1, May 27, 2009)
Flood Victims File Lawsuit Against City (The Forum, May 22, 2009)
Now Renters Face the Threat of Foreclosure (City Limits, May 20, 2009)
Business Improvement District vs. Street Vendors in Sunset Park (The Indypendent, May 20, 2009)
Theme Park Experts Urge City to 'Disney-fy' Coney (Brooklyn Papers, May 17, 2009)
Trade Center Plan Could Shrink to Two Towers (Daily News, May 11, 2009)
Silver and Mayor Call For End to Ground Zero Impasse (Associated Press, May 10, 2009)
Brodsky, Yankees Headed for Extra Innings (Albany Times Union, May 7, 2009)
Flyover of Fake Air Force One Sparks Fear (NY Times, Apr 28, 2009)
City Won't Compensate '07 Flood Victims in Queens (The Forum, Apr 17, 2009)
Projects Delayed in Harlem (NY Post, Apr 5, 2009)
Lawyer Sues Yankees' Community Benefits Fund (Newsday, Apr 2, 2009)
A Pitching Machine, Useless Without a Ball Field (Daily News, Apr 1, 2009)
The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund donated a pitching machine to a Catholic school whose ball field was among the 22 acres of parkland swallowed by the new stadium's construction. Unfortunately, without a bus (which the school requested) the players can barely get to practice fields. Taking the 600lb machine with them wouldn't be an option even with the bus.
Ground Zero Name Change Called 'Unpatriotic' (Associated Press, Mar 29, 2009)
Thanksgiving Parade Could Move Off Broadway (NY Post, Mar 29, 2009)
City Hall is floating the idea of moving the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade off Broadway.
In City, Store By Store, Recession Takes Its Toll (Los Angeles Times, Mar 22, 2009)
Community Boards Rank Their Priorities (City Room, Mar 20, 2009)
Each year, members of New York City’s 59 community boards were asked to rank the most important services in their district. For the 2010 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, the boards chose among 90 services — ranging from sidewalk repair to child care — provided by 24 agencies. The results are published in a report called “Community Board Service Program Rankings.”
Plan for Red Hook Waterfront Takes Shape (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 18, 2009)
Willets Point Workers Ask for Relocation, Not Training (Queens Ledger, Mar 13, 2009)
Community Board Backs Coney Island Plan -- with Changes (Brooklyn Papers, Mar 11, 2009)
New York Times Sells Off Office (Associated Press, Mar 10, 2009)
Life Proves Difficult for Homeless Youth, Study Shows (NY Times, Mar 10, 2009)
Two Tech Start-Ups Get City Seed Funds (Crain's, Mar 4, 2009)
Flagging Financial Service Industry Hurts Recovery in Lower Manhattan (Crain's, Mar 2, 2009)
Milwaukee Archbishop Chosen to Succeed Egan (NY Times, Feb 23, 2009)
Partitioned Apartments Common and Dangerous (NY Times, Feb 23, 2009)
City, Developer Fight Over Plans for Coney Island (NY Times, Feb 17, 2009)
Planting a Flag for Clubland in the Garment District? (Chelsea Now, Feb 13, 2009)
In Brooklyn, Controversial Orthodox Jewish Patrols Combat Crime (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb 12, 2009)
Housing Projects Fight Community Opposition (City Limits, Feb 4, 2009)
City, State Scrap Over Housing Fund (, Jan 30, 2009)
Governor Paterson wants the Battery Park City Authority to transfer up to $270 million in excess revenues to the state’s general fund, but Mayor Bloomberg already had plans for that money.
Stringer's Plan for Saving Small Businesses (Our Town, Jan 29, 2009)
As Priests Vanish, Parishes Struggle (Staten Island Advance, Dec 29, 2008)
City Charities Suffer During Meltdown (New York Magazine, Dec 29, 2008)
Down to One Bidder at Starrett City (NY 1, Dec 21, 2008)
Windsor Terrace Seeks Downzoning (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Dec 12, 2008)
Newark Tries to Lure Hunts Point Market (Daily News, Dec 10, 2008)
Downtown Brooklyn 'Green Collar' Job Program Launched (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Dec 4, 2008)
Balancing Preservation and Development (NY Times, Dec 2, 2008)
Brooklyn Residents Wonder What's In the Armory (City Limits, Dec 2, 2008)
City Proposes Bike Parking Rules for New Buildings (Associated Press, Nov 11, 2008)
Officials are proposing new rules that would greatly expand bicycle parking in apartment and office buildings around the city, the latest step in a plan to make New York one of the most bike-friendly places in the nation.
Small Publishers Shut Out of New School Procurement Policies (, Nov 11, 2008)
Small businesses in the boroughs specializing in textbooks for English language learners won't survive under new textbook purchasing rules.
Center for Economic Opportunity Reviewed (City Limits, Nov 4, 2008)
With estimates of the city's poor population nearing 2 million, elected officials last week raised fundamental questions about the scope, accessibility and impact of the Bloomberg administration's Center for Economic Opportunity programs.
Harlem Gun Buyback Program Nets Record (Daily News, Oct 30, 2008)
Housing Sales Plummet in Outer Boroughs (Daily News, Oct 26, 2008)
Graveyard of Indie Retailers Growing (Crain's, Oct 23, 2008)
'Racino' Plans at Aqueduct in Home Stretch (Daily News, Oct 23, 2008)
Kelly Makes Religious Rounds (Village Voice, Oct 22, 2008)
City's Health Department Plans Move to Queens (Associated Press, Oct 17, 2008)
Armory Could Bring More Than a Shopping Mall to Bronx (Norwood News, Oct 17, 2008)
Business Improvement District for Hudson Park? (Downtown Express, Oct 10, 2008)
$700 Million Redevelopment of East Harlem Approved (NY Post, Oct 8, 2008)
Council Approves Harlem Complex (NY Times, Oct 8, 2008)
The City Council yesterday approved a measure designed to clear the way for a $700 million project in East Harlem.
Nonprofits Feel a Pinch (NY Times, Oct 7, 2008)
Ground Zero Plaza Sees Delay, Again (NY Post, Oct 7, 2008)
Young People Going Back to the Farm (WNYC, Oct 2, 2008)
Harlem Forum Debates Supermarket Sweeps (Village Voice, Sep 26, 2008)
Astoria Residents Rally Against Fed Ex Truck Depot (Queens Gazette, Sep 26, 2008)
Starrett City Tenants Vet Prospective Buyers (, Sep 23, 2008)
Starrett City tenants had the opportunity to quiz prospective buyers of the nation's largest federally-subsidized housing development.
Crack Down On Illegal Trucks (Greenpoint Star, Sep 11, 2008)
Fort Greene Food Co-op to be Working Members Only (Brooklyn Papers, Aug 21, 2008)
Apple Store Angers Soho Residents (AM New York, Aug 20, 2008)
A Harlem Church Turned Developer (NY Times, Aug 18, 2008)
Study Shows Chain Stores Taking Over (NY Post, Aug 1, 2008)
Are Chain Stores Taking Over? (AM New York, Aug 1, 2008)
Report: Small Downtown Brooklyn Retailers Being Forced Out (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Aug 1, 2008)
Broadband Report: 'Digital Divide' Exists in City (NY Sun, Jul 31, 2008)
Harlem Businesses Affected By Rezoning Offered Loans (NY 1, Jul 31, 2008)
Lower East SIde at a Crossroads (NY Sun, Jul 17, 2008)
Crane Industry Remained Loosely Regulated (NY Times, Jul 16, 2008)
Is 'Green' the Place to Look for Job Growth? (City Limits, Jul 10, 2008)
Report and Film on Fighting East Village Chain Stores (The Villager, Jul 10, 2008)
Gentrification Goes Awry on Ludlow Street (Village Voice, Jul 9, 2008)
Buildings Department Steps Up Shutdowns (Daily News, Jul 7, 2008)
Cement Workers Strike Stalls Construction (NY Times, Jul 2, 2008)
Community Votes in Favor of Willets Point Development (Associated Press, Jul 1, 2008)
Public Housing Residents Face Loss of Their Community Centers (NY Times, Jun 17, 2008)
Correction Department Targets Hunts Point for Jail, Again (Daily News, Jun 17, 2008)
Chinese Tenant for Trade Center Doubted (NY Sun, Jun 3, 2008)
Mayor and Senator Battle Over West Side (NY Post, May 13, 2008)
A war of words erupted yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg reacted angrily to comments made by Sen. Charles Schumer suggesting the city has its priorities wrong in turning Manhattan's far West Side into a business district.
New Yorkers React to a Scaled Back Atlantic Yards Project (Daily News, May 6, 2008)
Queens Council Members Say Willetts Point Plan Dead on Arrival (Metro, Apr 22, 2008)
Trump Soho May Trump The Neighborhood (New York Magazine, Apr 2, 2008)
Residents Petition Supreme Court on Atlantic Yards (NY Sun, Apr 2, 2008)
West Side Rail Yards Comes With Risks (NY Observer, Apr 2, 2008)
Lending Plan Won Prize, but Will It Work Here? (NY Times, Apr 1, 2008)
Minister Sees Salvation of Harlem in Boycott (NY Times, Mar 31, 2008)
Chase Plaza Could Be Landmarked (NY Times, Mar 19, 2008)
City Council Sets Construction Site Hearing (NY Sun, Mar 19, 2008)
The City Council next month will examine safety for workers and bystanders at high-rise construction sites after a crane accident in Midtown on Saturday left seven dead.
Harlem Rezoning Approved by City Planning Commission (NY Post, Mar 11, 2008)
Lobbyists for Development Projects Pocket Cash (Daily News, Mar 10, 2008)
Trade Center Staircase Moves (Newsday, Mar 10, 2008)
Brooklyn Museum Focuses on 1967 Tour of Bedford-Stuyvesant (Daily News, Mar 4, 2008)
Modern Pool for Public Is Opening in Flushing (NY Times, Feb 29, 2008)
Construction Turns Once Vibrant Orchard Street Into 'Ghost Town' (The Real Estate, Feb 28, 2008)
Preliminary Mayor's Management Report (, Feb 15, 2008)
An interim look at the performance of various city agencies was released yesterday in a report called the Preliminary Mayor's Management Report. Published annually, it takes a look at the city's performance in the first four months of the fiscal year and forecasts performance expectations. Much of the information can be broken down by individual agency, issue, or community. Some significant highlights were: Sewer back up complaints jumped by 23 percent; the average response time to heat complaints rose by 50 percent (although stays within the goal of seven hours); and major felony crimes in schools were nearly a third lower than the same quarter last year.
Bronx Politician, Yankees Fued Over Stadium (Daily News, Feb 15, 2008)
The borough's politicians and the baseball team fight over who is to blame for the fact that Bronx residents have yet to reap many promised benefits from construction of the new stadium.
Roosevelt Island Landmark Is Falling Apart (Daily News, Feb 12, 2008)
What Constitutes a Landmark? (AM New York, Feb 12, 2008)
A Caribbean Corner of Brooklyn Fights to Survive (NY Times, Feb 11, 2008)
New President for Economic Development Nominated (Crain's, Feb 5, 2008)
For Just a Few Dollars, a Big TV and Years of Debt (NY Times, Feb 2, 2008)
NY Residents Now Able To Monitor Blocks Online (NY Sun, Jan 31, 2008)
Brooklyn Stadium in Jeopardy (NY Post, Jan 28, 2008)
Harlem Community Upset With 125th St Rezoning (AM New York, Jan 25, 2008)
City’s Brand of Community Benifits Agreements Bad for Rest of Nation? (Metro, Jan 15, 2008)
Marketing Plans to Address Garment District Woes (Chelsea Now, Jan 11, 2008)
Brooklyn Methadone Clinics Criticized (Brownstoner, Jan 2, 2008)
Late Library Books Can Take Toll on Credit Scores (NY Times, Dec 26, 2007)
Why to Love New York Now (New York Magazine, Dec 18, 2007)
Flatbush Tops Loudest in Brooklyn (Daily News, Dec 11, 2007)
Atlantic Yards Ombudsman Is Named (City Room, Nov 28, 2007)
New Life for Bronx Rail Station? (Metro, Nov 20, 2007)
The Limits of Gentrification in Red Hook (New York Magazine, Nov 14, 2007)
Pope to Visit City in Spring (Newsday, Nov 13, 2007)
Con Ed Fined $18 Million (NY Post, Nov 8, 2007)
Con Ed Fined $18 Million for Blackouts (NY Times, Nov 8, 2007)
Six Firms Vying For Deutsche Bank Demolition (NY Post, Oct 16, 2007)
Luxury Development Proposed Near World Trade Center (Newsday, Oct 16, 2007)
Chain Store Saturation in Brooklyn? (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct 11, 2007)
Where Harlem May Go (AM New York, Oct 9, 2007)
Atlantic Yards Challenge Hits Appeals Court (NY Sun, Oct 9, 2007)
City Leaders Hope to Preserve Small Businesses (Newsday, Oct 9, 2007)
Startled by the sheer number of banks she saw opening in her Upper West Side district, Councilwoman Gale Brewer took it upon herself to count them. In the blocks between West 54th and West 96th streets, she found almost 60.
Grand Army Plaza to Become More Pedestrian Friendly (NY Post, Oct 2, 2007)
Regulators Blast Con Ed Rate Hikes (Daily News, Oct 1, 2007)
Civilian Complaints on the Rise at NYPD (City Limits, Sep 18, 2007)
Staten Island Librarians Collect Stories From Liberian Civil War (NY Times, Sep 18, 2007)
City Backs SoHo Trump Tower (Associated Press, Sep 11, 2007)
Cultural Trolleys in the Outer Boroughs (, Aug 31, 2007)
Cultural Trolleys in the outer boroughs hold great promise, says a new report by the Center for an Urban Future, but they have a mixed track record of success. "While some of the trolleys have had an undeniably positive impact in raising the profile of cultural institutions and puncturing old perceptions of neighborhoods, most of New York’s trolley routes have failed to boost attendance in a meaningful way," the report finds. To be successful, it says, a trolley must run frequently enough to be of use, and be well planned and publicized. The report also says the state and city tourism agencies don't do enough to support them. Furthermore, their intense use of gas is of concern to the report's authors.
Columbia Street Awaits Gentrification (NY Times, Aug 28, 2007)
Residents Question Harlem Park Plan (AM New York, Aug 28, 2007)
City Checking if Builders are Violating Stop-Work Orders (Staten Island Advance, Aug 17, 2007)
Bridging the Civic Divide Between Staten Island and Brooklyn (City Hall, Aug 16, 2007)
Brooke Astor, Famed NYC Philanthropist, Dies at 105 (NY Post, Aug 14, 2007)
Getting Grassroots on Board With Development (City Limits, Aug 14, 2007)
City and Counties in Coordinated Crackdown on Home Improvement Scams (Daily News, Aug 10, 2007)
Big Real Estate Firms Buy Up Property in Poor Neighborhoods (WNYC, Aug 9, 2007)
Politicians Seek Say in Atlantic Yards (NY Post, Aug 9, 2007)
Metro-North Stop Could Bring Change to Bronx Neighborhood (AM New York, Aug 7, 2007)
Iwo Jima Sculpture Ousted from Museum (NY Times, Aug 1, 2007)
Hotelier Plans Cleanup, Threatens Lounge (NY Observer, Aug 1, 2007)
30 Years After the Riots, Gentrification Threatens Bushwick (Village Voice, Jun 27, 2007)
Sunnyside Gardens Approved as Historic District (NY Post, Jun 27, 2007)
City To Withhold Funding For Private Capital Projects (NY Sun, Jun 14, 2007)
The city is putting a one-year moratorium on funding for private capital projects as part of its next budget.
New Life for City's Oldest Bridge (Metro, Jun 8, 2007)
Gehry to Design Manhattan Playground (NY Post, Jun 7, 2007)
Queens Pavilion Neglected, Report Says (Daily News, Jun 7, 2007)
Future Uncertain for Bronx Library (Metro, May 18, 2007)
City to Let Community Groups Control Closed Firehouses (NY Sun, May 16, 2007)
Harlem Parcels Are Bought for $940 Million (NY Observer, May 3, 2007)
Atlantic Yards Opponents File New Lawsuit (NY Sun, Apr 5, 2007)
Plan to Expand Brooklyn Jail Gets Mixed Reaction (NY Times, Apr 4, 2007)
Bloomberg Says Borrowers Should Share Blame for Foreclosures (Daily News, Mar 29, 2007)
Mayor Bloomberg said it was "sad" that thousands of New Yorkers were losing their homes because of subprime mortgages.But there's nothing he can do to help - and he suggests that subprime lenders and the borrowers are equally to blame.
Members of Council Relish Victory Over Wal-Mart (NY Sun, Mar 29, 2007)
The declaration by Wal-Mart's chief executive that the retailer will abandon efforts to open a store in Manhattan is prompting gloating by some City Council members.
Wal-Mart May Give Up on Building Store in City (NY Times, Mar 28, 2007)
Columbia Plans First Eviction to Make Way for Campus Expansion (NY Sun, Mar 28, 2007)
Sunnyside Split Over Whether to Landmark the Queens Neighborhood (Metro, Mar 7, 2007)
Under Madison Avenue Veteran George Fertitta, City Hall Markets New York City In Hopes Of Attracting 50 Million Tourists A Year (NY Times, Feb 27, 2007)
Energy Alternatives And Economic Growth (, Feb 8, 2007)
New York City must begin to change its energy consumption, conserving and focusing less on fossil fuel, according to "Repowring Gotham," a report by the NYC Apollo Alliance, which makes recommendations so that "the city can exchange its dangerous reliance on fossil fuels for a diversified energy portfolio, foster a new industrial sector within the regional economy and enhance the health and performance of our built environment through a sustainable development approach."
City Subsidy Of Atlantic Yards More Than Doubles, To $205 Million (NY Post, Jan 30, 2007)
Diamond District Struggles As Industry Evolves (Associated Press, Jan 30, 2007)
Pfizer Shutting Down Brooklyn Facility Where It Was Founded in 1849, Eliminating 600 Jobs And Jeopardizing The Remainder Of Its City Tax Breaks (NY Sun, Jan 23, 2007)
A Hotel (Metro, Jan 17, 2007)
Bloomberg Administration Takes Aim at Illegal Ads on Sidewalk Sheds (NY Times, Jan 6, 2007)
The Bloomberg administration is getting ready this month to battle the proliferation of illegal advertising on sidewalk construction sheds in Manhattan.
City Council Overhauls Tax Break for Developers (NY Times, Dec 21, 2006)
In an effort to encourage the building of more affordable housing, City Council yesterday proposed a series of changes to a tax break for developers. The plan would significantly increase the areas of the city in which developers who want the tax break must include apartments affordable to lower-income people. And those lower-priced apartments – totaling at least 20 percent of the new development -- would have to be included in each building rather than being built elsewhere in the city.
Silvercup Studios Would Benefit from Council (Daily News, Dec 20, 2006)
City lawmakers agreed yesterday on a plan to revamp a program that gives tax breaks to housing developers, and the biggest winner may be Silvercup Studios, the production home of "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City."
Council To Vote on Property Tax Breaks Today (NY Post, Dec 20, 2006)
The City Council plans to approve a bill today that will expand the number of neighborhoods that require a certain amount of affordable housing to be built in exchange for tax credits on luxury housing.
Bloomberg Plans To Unveil A Set Of Development Goals To Handle NYC's Growth (Wall Street Journal, Dec 12, 2006)
MTA Gives $11M To Parks Dept. For Use Of Playground To Start Constructing Second Avenue Subway (Metro, Dec 5, 2006)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will pay $11 million to the Parks Dept. for the use of a playground at 96th Street to serve as a staging area for construction of the Second Avenue Subway.
“We couldn’t build a new playground, because there isn’t any real estate available in a neighborhood like that,” said Joshua Laird, chief of planning for the Parks Dept. “So we’re fixing up other parks in the area that are going to receive more use.”
Yet the three parks getting the money — Thomas Jefferson, Marcus Garvey and Harlem River Park — are between 16 to 31 blocks away from the Marx Brothers Playground at 96th and Second.
NASCAR Speedway Plan Ends On Staten Island; International Speedway Corporation Cites Local Opposition (NY Post, Dec 5, 2006)
Tax Breaks Seem To Favor Affluent Neighborhoods (NY Times, Dec 5, 2006)
Stuyvesant Town Deal Could be in Peril (Crain's, Nov 16, 2006)
Crackdown Proposed By City Council On Street Peddlers Selling Counterfeit Or Pirated Goods (NY Post, Nov 14, 2006)
Opponents Try to Lock Up the Bronx Before Wal-Mart Knocks on the Door (NY Times, Nov 10, 2006)
Leaders of an anti-Wal-Mart campaign have been forming alliances with Bronx community groups and politicians to head off any attempt for the retailer to set up shop.
Jail Time Urged For Real Estate Developers And Construction Contractors Who Violate The Building Code, At City Council Hearing (NY Sun, Oct 31, 2006)
Addition to Art Museum Dramatizes Changes in the Bronx (Metro, Oct 4, 2006)
Big Box Stores Threaten to Squeeze Out Manufacturers (Metro, Sep 20, 2006)
Millions in Post-9/11 Small Business Grants Ended Up In The Hand of Big Corporations (Daily News, Sep 18, 2006)
In Tribeca, City (NY Sun, Aug 14, 2006)
Study Finds (Metro, Aug 7, 2006)
The 30th Anniversary Of Greenmarkets In NYC (New York Magazine, Jul 18, 2006)
No Payback for Foes of Stadium, Bronx Borough President Says (Metro, Jun 15, 2006)
In Queens (Village Voice, Jun 14, 2006)
Battle over Yankee Stadium Continues in Bronx Community Board (Metro, Jun 8, 2006)
Council caucus eyes minority jobs (Metro, May 22, 2006)
An estimated 1.5 million New Yorkers live below the poverty line, and members of the City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus believe they can change this by joining forces. The first step in that effort was this weekend’s first annual caucus summit.?
Movie Stars and Writers Team Up to Stop Nets Arena in Brooklyn (Metro, May 8, 2006)
Staten Island (New York Magazine, Apr 17, 2006)
Mets' Offer Of $200 K For Local Sports Insufficient, City Council Members Say (Daily News, Apr 11, 2006)
Seeking support for its stadium plan, the Mets have offered to spend $200,000 on sports programs for local kids - drawing howls of protest from some Queens lawmakers who demanded a $1 million payout.
But Mayor Bloomberg is still going to bat for the team, accusing City Council members of trying to "extort" goodies in exchange for approving tax-exempt bonds for the ball field
Yankees' Financing Scheme For Stadium May Not "Fly" With IRS, Head Of Independent Budget Office Testifies (Metro, Apr 11, 2006)
Council Members Seek Community Benefits from Mets (Daily News, Apr 10, 2006)
The Queens City Council delegation wants the Mets to earn their support for a new ballpark by meeting a long list of demands - including $1 million a year for youth sports. The demands were apparently inspired by the community benefits package that the Yankees agreed to in return for city support for their new stadium.
Mets Release Plans for New Stadium (Newsday, Apr 7, 2006)
Yankees Win New Stadium in Council Vote (NY Times, Apr 6, 2006)
The New York Yankees' effort to build a new stadium cleared its biggest hurdle yesterday with lopsided City Council votes supporting the team's ambitious plan to knock down the Bronx institution known around the world as the House that Ruth Built.
Number of Hispanic-Owned Businesses Rises Sharply in City (Daily News, Mar 22, 2006)
Council Will Examine Funding for Stadiums (Metro, Mar 17, 2006)
Hearings into the funding plan to build new ballparks for the Yankees and the Mets will be conducted next month by City Council finance committee chairman David Weprin, D-Queens.?
City Approves Bonds for Yankees and Mets Stadiums (Daily News, Mar 15, 2006)
The Yankees and Mets scored big in the old bond game yesterday - getting financial boosts from the city to help them build their new back-to-the-future ballparks. The city's Industrial Development Agency gave preliminary approval to the Yankees' bid for $930 million in bonds.
Eight Finalists Picked To Develop Willets Point (Metro, Mar 6, 2006)
Public Takes Last Swing At Yankee Plan (Metro, Mar 3, 2006)
The Empire State Development Corporation held its final public hearing last night before deciding whether to invest $70 million in parking garages for the proposed new Yankee Stadium. The team wants to break ground this spring, but its stadium and garages would claim 22 acres of parkland, sparking protests from the neighborhood.
Concerns About Brooklyn Park Plan Cross Party Lines (Metro, Jan 23, 2006)
Sides Clash on Proposed Yankee Stadium Project (Metro, Jan 12, 2006)
Up Close: Community Rage Over Yankee Plan (Metro, Jan 12, 2006)
Bronx Terminal Market Poses Test for Quinn (Metro, Jan 9, 2006)
A spokesperson for the developer of the Gateway Mall on the site of the Bronx Terminal Market says only City Council can block the project. The council’s new speaker Christine Quinn has been an adversary of big-box retailers, but no one knows whether Quinn will extend her fight to the Bronx.
Chinatown Wary of Empire Zone's Business Impact (Metro, Jan 5, 2006)
Majora Carter (Metropolis Magazine, Jan 4, 2006)
Pataki Announces Tax Free Zone for Lower Manhattan (Newsday, Jan 4, 2006)
New York in Building Boom (NY Sun, Dec 30, 2005)
Buoyed by low interest rates and a decline in crime, New York City is in the midst of a historic construction boom on par only with the real estate rush that defined the early 1960s and the late 1920s, eras that gave birth to iconic city structures such as the Met Life Building and the Chrysler Building.
The trend is visible in city data and confirmed by the construction cranes planted at sites across the five boroughs
The number of permits issued for new private residential building units issued citywide in 2005 is on pace to hit nearly 28,000, surpassing last year's total by more than 10% and more than five times the amount issued a decade ago, according to the city's Department of Buildings. Some city officials say that all told, the final tally of new residential units may reach as high as 35,000 this year. In 1999 there were 12,421 new units and in 2000 there were 15,050.
Far-Flung Use Of 9/11 Loans (NY Times, Dec 29, 2005)
Banks are Booming in Manhattan, But Avoiding Poor Neighborhoods in Other Boroughs (Daily News, Dec 19, 2005)
Hevesi Says City Will Have $2.8 Billion Surplus (Daily News, Dec 15, 2005)
Council Likely To Call for Stiffer Restrictions On Eminent Domain (NY Sun, Dec 13, 2005)
Fat Cats Milked Ground Zero (Daily News, Dec 5, 2005)
Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid intended to help small downtown businesses that were reeling from the 9/11 attacks often went instead to huge international corporations, companies with little attachment to the stricken area and businesses that were never in jeopardy.
The beneficiaries included a stock brokerage firm that had closed more than a month before the terrorists hit, a giant real estate firm that repeatedly said it wasn't hurt by the attacks, scores of wealthy self-employed floor traders and a Gramercy Park messenger service with a tiny satellite office downtown,
Council Approves $1.3 Billion for West Side Development (Gotham Gazette, Oct 28, 2005)
The City Council approved $1.3 billion in spending over the next 40 years to help develop the West Side of Manhattan. It also voted $31,000 pay raises for public administrators, court appointed city workers
Innovative deal to build 30,000 affordable housing units (, Oct 15, 2005)
A deal between philanthropic, nonprofit groups and the city will allow developers to build and preserve 30,000 new affordable housing units across the city in the next decade, the mayor's office said Thursday.
The $200 million plan will offer funds to developers through banks and organizations to purchase and build on privately owned land.
"It's unprecedented both in its structure and in its scale," said Shaun Donovan, the city's housing commissioner.
Donovan said the deal will offer access to $160 million in bank financing and another $40 million from charities. He said the deal is significant because it's the first time banks will offer so much funds for affordable housing schemes.
Coney Island's Bold Las Vegas-Like Development Plan (New York Magazine, Sep 19, 2005)
City to Pump 50 Million More into Coney Island (Daily News, Sep 15, 2005)
Coney Island will be getting some serious clams - another $50 million, to be precise - from the city to jump-start the seaside amusement area into a year-round destination.
Pataki Signs Law to Lure Businesses Downtown (Newsday, Sep 1, 2005)
Roosevelt Island Poorly Run, Legislative Investigation Charges (Newsday, Aug 29, 2005)
Citing First Amendment, Judge Says City Must Allow Graffiti Party (, Aug 23, 2005)
In a tartly worded ruling, a federal judge ordered the Bloomberg administration yesterday to reinstate a permit for a block party in Chelsea featuring the painting of graffiti on mock subway cars.
The judge, Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan, called the city's abrupt cancellation of the permit unconstitutional. He even poked fun at Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's argument that the party would incite the defacement of real subway cars.
"By the same token, presumably, a street performance of 'Hamlet' would be tantamount to encouraging revenge murder," the judge wrote.
Rival Bid Tops Ratner's Offer to Develop Brooklyn Site (Newsday, Jul 25, 2005)
The Ratner plan to turn rail yards into the new Nets arena faced a competing proposal that has the support of many.
Network Organizing: A Strategy for Building Community Engagement (, Jun 17, 2005)
In weak market cities where cynicism and dysfunction have become the norm,” this article argues that “it takes a different kind of organizing to bring people together to demand change”.
More In Store (, Jun 17, 2005)
When Wal-Mart wants to open new stores, it doesn’t give up. This article suggests what New York can do in response.
A Bane Amid The Housing Boom: Rising Foreclosures (, Jun 17, 2005)
This article discusses how foreclosure rates are rising across the country and wonders whether the national push for home ownership is back firing.
How New York Can Get Its Groove Back (, Jun 12, 2005)
HAVE New Yorkers lost their chutzpah? The demise of the proposed Jets stadium on the Far West Side (and the attendant blow to the city's 2012 Olympic hopes), along with the politically induced inertia at the World Trade Center site, has led to speculation that the Big Apple is turning into a crab apple. So the Op-Ed Page approached several prominent New Yorkers -- historian Mike Wallace, Maura Moynihan of the Regional Plan Association, Congressman Charles Rangel, author Tom Wolfe, MOMA museum director Glenn Lowry, publisher Tim Zagat,nightclub owner Amy Sacco, Philip K. Howard of the Municipal Art Society, Richard Parson of Time Warner, architect Peter Eisenman, real estate developer Donald Trump -- with a question: If the city wants to start thinking big again, where should it start?
Mayor Blocked On Trash Plan (, Jun 9, 2005)
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's ambitious 20-year plan to ship the city's garbage away by barge was dealt a stinging setback yesterday in a City Council vote. It was the mayor's second major defeat this week on a signature initiative of his administration.
The Council's vote blocking the mayor's plan will effectively stall it but does not kill it, since he can veto the Council's decision. Council leaders believe they will have the votes to override any veto, though.
Unlike Stadium on West Side, an Arena in Brooklyn Is Still a Go (, Jun 9, 2005)
As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan for a Far West Side stadium was going down to defeat this spring, another major plan for a sports arena was quietly coming to fruition in Brooklyn.
Like the ill-fated football stadium plan for the Jets, the Brooklyn basketball arena, planned for the Nets by its team owner, the developer Bruce Ratner, would be subsidized by hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars and include ambitious redevelopment projects in the surrounding area. It would also be an imposing presence near neighborhoods known for their political activism. And the arena, though strongly backed by the mayor, would most likely require approval of the same obscure state group, the Public Authorities Control Board, which voted to kill the West Side stadium proposal on Monday.
Yet, in a reflection of the relatively smooth sailing the Brooklyn project has enjoyed, one of two men on that board who scuttled the West Side plan this week, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, indicated yesterday that he would support the new arena for the Nets, who would move to Brooklyn from New Jersey. The other, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, said yesterday that he would be far less likely to stand in its way, since it would not hurt business in his Lower Manhattan district.
Analyst: Mayor's Bronx Market Deal Shows His Hubris (, Jun 2, 2005)
The Bronx Terminal Market illustrates the Bloomberg administration’s tendency to promote development of underutilized land while allowing small businesses to be bulldozed in the process, according to a report published yesterday.
“Beyond the Olympics,” the result of a five-month examination by the nonprofit think tank Center for an Urban Future, found that Mayor Bloomberg has habitually sought the rezoning and redevelopment of property, resulting in the eviction of local businesses.
“The Bronx Terminal Market is emblematic of the problems with the Bloomberg administration — they do the right thing but go at it an awfully wrong way,” the research director of the center and author of the report, Jonathan Bowles, told The New York Sun.
(Columbia) University Expansion and Eminent Domain (, Apr 16, 2005)
Columbia University has invested money towards exploring the use of eminent domain to purchase property in Manhattanville, a neighborhood about 15 blocks north of the main campus. Eminent domain would be employed as a means of proceeding with the University's expansion plans. Columbia has not yet used eminent domain, but still some students, professors and Manhattanville residents are in an uproar over the phrase and the fact that Columbia did not make its discussions public. Why did Columbia keep quiet these negotiations - uncovered by the school's student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, through a request filed under the Freedom of Information Law - and why do administrators feel it is necessary to use eminent domain in the first place?
What Did we learn and what do we do? (, Mar 8, 2005)
A conversation about what the community development field should take from the presidential election.
Progressive Nonprofits Like Housing Works Make Money Through Entrepreneurial Enterprises (, Jan 18, 2005)
"We believe that the spread of social entrepreneurship, and the positive alternative to conventional fundraising it provides for raising resources, offers a fundamentally new and powerful strategy for progressives to expand their power and their voice in the United States," write Michael Shuman and Merrian Fuller in The Nation.
Will New York Get Inclusionary Zoning (Requiring Developers To Build Affordable Housing)? (, Jan 18, 2005)
A look at efforts to force developers to build affordable housing.
The Negative Effects Of "Deconcentrating" The Poor (Moving Them Out Of Their Neighborhoods) (, Jan 18, 2005)
A look at the destructive effect of urban renewal efforts that remove people from poor neighborhoods.
Mayor Says Development Plan is Dead at Flushing Airport Site (, Nov 11, 2004)
Saturday’s fifth rally against the city’s plans for the old Flushing Airport site turned into a victory celebration when it was announced that the mayor has halted the $175-million redevelopment project.
Councilman Tony Avella, who has been leading the attack against the Economic Development Corporation’s project to turn the unused airport into a wholesale distribution center, was jubilant. “This is an example of when everyone works together what can happen. This was a united effort and I recognize everyone that participated.”
Panel Approves Plan by Ikea to Open Store in Red Hook (, Oct 7, 2004)
The notion of shopping for minimalist furniture while nibbling Swedish meatballs within view of the Statue of Liberty took a major step forward yesterday as a City Council panel approved a plan for what is likely to become New York City's first Ikea, along the Brooklyn waterfront in Red Hook.
The approval came despite opposition from some residents to the Swedish furniture giant's plopping a 22-acre mall on the waterfront in a once-neglected industrial area that has caught the eye of developers in recent years
Working and Poor in the USA (, Jun 2, 2004)
For generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you worked hard, you could earn a livable income and provide basic security for yourself and your family. That promise has been broken. More than 30 million Americans--one in four workers--are stuck in low-wage jobs that do not provide the basics for a decent life.
Does it Give A BAM? (, Apr 28, 2003)
From City Limits Monthly. By Robert Neuwirth. May 2000.
Officials to Theater: BAM! (, Apr 28, 2003)
From City Limits Weekly. By Pablo Morales. Week of October 21, 2002.
