City Limits articles from February 2003

City Limits archives from February 2003

Making neighborhoods. (Editorial).(Editorial)
February 1, 2003... THERE'S A LOT to celebrate about Mayor Bloomberg's new housing plan [see page 8 for details]. That the city is making this commitment during a time of financial crisis makes it especially welcome. The administration is staking a position that...

Letters.
February 1, 2003... CONEY ISLAND CARICATURE? As a long time supporter and admirer of City Limits, I was deeply disappointed in "Coney Island High," December's cover article about the Amethyst Women's Project. The tone of the article was more voyeuristic than...

Garifuna make record time. (Frontlines).(Caribbean art)
February 1, 2003... Before J. King moved to New York 20 years ago, he was a legend in his home country of Honduras. His Punta rock band, Black Fever, had a hectic tour schedule, and their music--featuring the drum-based beat traditional in Garifuna culture--was on...

Washington monument: Cashing in on a messy golf course. (Frontlines).
February 1, 2003... A troubled attempt to build a luxury golf course at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx has yet to pay off for New Yorkers. The golf course was supposed to open this past spring, but because of environmental problems it is now at least three years...

Run, Rabbit, Run. (Environment).(construction of mall stopped in Queens)
February 1, 2003... A parcel of environmentally sensitive land in Rosedale, Queens, could soon be paved over for a sprawling strip mall, raising concerns about the loss of fragile wetlands and one of the last undeveloped pieces of waterfront along the increasingly...

Upbeat dads. (Urbanlegend).(Birth Fathers' Support Network )
February 1, 2003... Julian Sparks is in the business of breaking down stereotypes. As co-founder of the Bronx-based nonprofit organization Birth Fathers' Support Network, the 40-year-old is battling one label in particular: the deadbeat dad. Sparks admits he...

Mayor: 'We'll make more'. (Housing).(New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's housing policy)
February 1, 2003... Mayor Bloomberg's plan to invest more than a billion new dollars in building and preserving housing across the city was welcomed with great fanfare in December, but his proposal is not just about newfound cash: He's also called for making some...

Lawyers Alliance for New York: Workshops in legal issues for nonprofits.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Incorporation and Tax Exemption January 22, 2003 10:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. Employment Law February 6, 2003 10:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m. Legal Aspects of Housing Partnerships Between Nonprofits and For Profits February 27, 2003...

CUNY deal needs work. (Employment).(contract with New York City's Human Resources Administration and Department of Employment)
February 1, 2003... Last Spring, the Research Foundation of CUNY worked out an exclusive contract with the city Human Resources Administration and Department of Employment: $195 million over three years to cut checks to trade schools and nonprofits that train New...

Unwanted work stoppage. (Labor).(New York City Labor Against the War)
February 1, 2003... As New York's labor unions struggle with the fiscal crisis gripping the city, a coalition of workers spent a rainy Friday night in December raising money for their brothers and sisters in the Middle East. New York City Labor Against the...

New York undercovered: The state's renowned AIDS treatment insurance program is teetering on the verge of financial collapse. (Inside Track).(New Yorks' AIDS Drug Assistance Program)
February 1, 2003... Doug rose has been living with HIV for nearly a decade. Eight series of drug cocktails have kept the New Yorker healthy all that time, and an extensive public health insurance plan for people with the virus has made those medications, which run...

A room of one's own: When your tiny home turns out to be prey for a destructive real estate scam, what do you do? Launch the biggest tenant organizing drive Harlem has seen in a generation.
February 1, 2003... That more than 50 tenants braved single-digit temperatures one December night didn't impress James Lewis. After months of knocking on doors, climbing rickety stairs and cajoling residents to fight to keep their rooms and apartments, he...

Six mile: It's only a six-mile ride from the Bronx to Bronxville, but the B-52 bus travels across a vast economic divide.
February 1, 2003... THE BOSTON SECOR HOUSES in the Bronx, where signs warn "No Loitering in Hallways" and "Most Important, NO DRUGS," seem a long way from the lavish colonial homes and Tudor cottages of Bronxville in Westchester County. But these two communities...

Mercury rising: for a decade researchers have suspected that a magical metal is an underground health scourge. Now a partnership of science and religion may finally tell New Yorkers the truth.
February 1, 2003... Two summers ago, Arizona anthropologist C. Allison Newby came to the New York area to do a study of what appeared to be an alarming underground phenomenon. She wanted to figure out how many people were following an ancient belief that...

Sick treatment: when drug counselors attack. (Intelligence the Big Idea).
February 1, 2003... GLORIA HOLMES DIDN'T NEED any more hassles. A working, 36-year-old mother of three, she had been in and out of drug treatment for years. Following a 2001 suicide attempt serious enough to land her in Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital for a week,...

New reports.(Fiscal Policy Institute)(New York City Independent Budget Office)(The National Alliance of HUD Tenants)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... This new report can be seen as good news or bad news. It's true we've lost less than half the 361,000 jobs (159,000 since January 2001) that evaporated in the 1989-1992 recession. That's kept unemployment at 8 percent now, versus nearly 12...

Parachute landing: A personal history of one neighborhood's rise and fall. (Intelligence City Lit).(Coney Island: Lost and Found)(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Coney Island: Lost and Found, written and designed by Charles Densan Ten Speed Press, 287 pages, $29.95 WHEN CHARLES DENSON HEARD the first rumors that Disney was coming to Coney Island, back in 1998, he thought it was high time to start...

In the system and in the life. (Now Read This).(A Guide for Teens and Staff to the Gay Experience in Foster Care )(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Edited by Al Desetta Youth Communication, $16.95 Subtitled "A Guide for Teens and Staff to the Gay Experience in Foster Care," this collection from Foster Care Youth United offers deeply personal snapshots of queer teens' tumultuous...

The state of working America 2002-03. (Now Read this).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Economic Policy Institute staff ILR Press, $24.95 There's a real "good cop, bad cop" thing going on here. Nationally, the late 1990s' high employment rates brought the biggest increases in real wages in decades for low and middle...

Making a place for community: Local Democracy in a global era. (Now Read This).(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... By Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz Routledge, $29.95 These three academics offer a mildly repetitive "The sky is falling but it doesn't have to" book. Yet it's hard to argue with their idea that a reinvigorated...

Union Schmooze: Organized labor tries working its connections in immigrant neighborhoods. (Intelligence Making Change).
February 1, 2003... NIBBLING ON HOMEMADE CHICKEN with rice and beans, the 30-odd people gathered in this lower Manhattan office building join in hushed but excited bilingual chit-chat between sporadic bursts of guitar-led activist labor songs. Although most have...