City Limits articles from December 2004

City Limits archives from December 2004

Job-killing tax cuts.(EDITORIAL)
December 1, 2004... I WRITE THIS ONE week before Election Day. No one--not you, not I--knows what will come of it. Well, maybe Karl Rove does. But one of the many ugly victories of the arch-right takeover of public life is that the nation has been so obsessed...

No bucks for brownfields.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Concern over tax incentives in the state's new Brownfield Cleanup Program going to wealthy developers is justified ["The Green Lady," September/October 2004]. Equally troubling, however, is that the part of the plan targeted to inner-city...

Think regionally, act regionally.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Compliments on "Adios, Nueva York" [September/October 2004]; very well written and researched. I grew up in an Allentown-esque area of Pennsylvania that saw an influx of Black and Puerto Rican immigrants from New York and Philly in the early...

Providence: no Allentown.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... I just read your story on Puerto Ricans leaving New York for rust belt cities in the sticks. All in all, a great, informative article. However, I thought you were off the mark on a few points. First, that Puerto Ricans are going to...

FAB fourth.(Fourth Arts Block purchases buildings from the city council)
December 1, 2004... STARVING ARTISTS NO MORE! Thirteen East Village cultural organizations are now the proud owners of six buildings and two vacant lots. Known as Fourth Arts Block (FAB), the groups purchased the buildings from the city for $1 apiece. The sale,...

Housing gets organized: a new fund revives advocacy.(FRONTLINES)
December 1, 2004... SOME NEIGHBORHOOD NONPROFITS have never taken to the streets. Others never gave up agitating. But here's a guarantee: For the next four years, 15 New York neighborhood housing groups will have a community organizer on board. From the North...

Rent well running dry.(HOUSING)
December 1, 2004... A CITY PROGRAM designed to get homeless families into solid jobs and apartments is yanking the rug out from under them, City Limits has learned. The Employment Incentive Housing Program (EIHP), a joint project between the city's welfare and...

New Jersey Immigration Policy Network.(INS AND OUTS)
December 1, 2004... New Jersey Immigration Policy Network welcomes PARTHA BANERJEE as its new executive director. An Indian immigrant, Banerjee is known for his work on behalf of the city's newest arrivals. Most recently, he served as a community organizer for the...

American Stevedoring.(INS AND OUTS)
December 1, 2004... CHRIS WARD, former commissioner of New York City's Department of Environmental Protection, has joined American Stevedoring, a Brooklyn-based shipping company, as chief executive officer. In a written statement, Mayor Bloomberg called Ward "an...

Hope Community.(INS AND OUTS)
December 1, 2004... Hope Community, an East Harlem-based community development organization, has appointed WILLIAM JACOBY as its new executive director. He previously worked as the director of development for Community Housing Innovations in White Plains, New...

New York City Department of Housing Preservation.(INS AND OUTS)
December 1, 2004... DEBORAH RAND joined the New York City Department of Housing Preservation as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation for its legal affairs office. In the newly created position, Rand will guide the agency's efforts in pushing landlords to comply...

Markle Foundation.(INS AND OUTS)
December 1, 2004... DAVID LANSKY joins New York's Markle Foundation, an organization focusing on using technology to address critical medical needs, as director of its health program. Until recently Lansky was president of the Foundation for Accountability, an...

Paint by numbers.(PUBLIC HEALTH)
December 1, 2004... BACK IN JUNE 2003, the city's health commissioner stood before the City Council and blasted a bill designed to reduce children's exposure to lead paint. Intro 101A, as it was then known, "is not consistent with federal guidelines," said...

Mapping their CITI.(Community Information Technology Initiative Youth Program)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FORGET VIDEO GAMES and instant messaging--this fall ninth and tenth graders at the Bushwick Academy for Urban Planning have discovered a far better use for computers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As part of Community Information Technology...

Apollo takes off.(NY Apollo, New York)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... NY APOLLO, a coalition of union workers, business leaders, environmental justice advocates and educators, recently launched its Ten Point Plan for a Strong Economy and a Healthy City. The program aims to make New York City safer and healthier...

Underground justice: domestic violence groups create their own protection system for immigrants, far from cops and courts.(INSIDETRACK)
December 1, 2004... BEFORE 29-YEAR-OLD Anjelita Bangali and her family immigrated from Guyana to the Bronx two years ago, she went to the beach with her husband and young daughters to lay hibiscus blossoms, homemade delicacies and statues of gods on the sand. The...

Open university: Columbia plans to expand to West Harlem. West Harlem wants to be part of the plan. Is there a way for campus and community to share the same streets?
December 1, 2004... IN FRONT OF THE 116TH Street gate of Columbia University, Tom DeMott surveys the small knot of his neighbors milling about. As picketers fall into step, DeMott grabs his megaphone and leads a chant: "Stop eminent domain abuse in West Harlem!...

The children's hour: New York City's foster care system is downsizing at an unprecedented clip. It's a breakthrough for families--and a crisis for the organizations that work with them.
December 1, 2004... The campus of St. Christopher's Inc, a 123-year-old child welfare agency in Westchester, is bathed in summer sunshine. The boys are in classes; the girls, playing ball on the grass. The Hudson River shimmers in the background. Construction is...

Shakeup artists: meet seven midlife activists who've honed the art of provocation.
December 1, 2004... LOOK AT ANY CLASS of Union Square Awards or Open Society Institute fellowship winners, and you see the rising stars of New York City activism: young, fresh talent raging to get out and remake the world every day. But New York also has...

Q & A: will current plans for Harlem ignite a new renaissance uptown?(Kenneth Knuckles)(Interview)
December 1, 2004... Harlem is awash in plans that promise jobs and have potential to stimulate the local economy, from Columbia University's expansion to the neighborhood's first auto dealership in 50 years. In a community juggling high unemployment and rapid...

The poverty paradox: why are New Yorkers' incomes staying steady when so many are unemployed?(THE BIG IDEA)
December 1, 2004... WHEN THE LATEST poverty statistics came out in August, the numbers didn't make very big waves. With the Republican Party roaring into New York, the fact that poverty had gone up nationally--no surprise for an economy just creeping out of a...

The myth of welfare reform: documenting how much never changed, a journalist points to what could.
December 1, 2004... American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By Jason DeParle Viking Books, 442 pages, $25.95 YOU PROBABLY MISSED it in the flood of words thrown back and forth about...