City Limits articles from January 2005

City Limits archives from January 2005

Perverse progress.(EDITORIAL)
January 1, 2005... NEW YORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN a real estate town. Even so, the amount of development poised to get underway is astounding. Downtown Brooklyn, the Williamsburg waterfront, Hudson Yards, Morrisania and, of course, lower Manhattan, already sprouting a...

Radical co-ops in the roaring twenties.(FRONTLINES)
January 1, 2005... ONCE UPON A TIME, four left-wing groups in New York built housing that had activism at its core. They bought land in the Bronx and, with a modest investment from each purchaser and some subsidized mortgages, built low-cost co-ops that offered...

Health care for caregivers; New York's army of uninsured workers is about to lose a few soldiers: its nannies.(FRONTLINES)
January 1, 2005... FOR NEW YORK'S NANNIES, good health care is often a luxury. Paid too well to qualify for government insurance, yet too poor to afford private insurance, they do what millions of workers do: Try not to get sick. That could soon change, however,...

Transgender homeless seek safety.(HOMELESSNESS)
January 1, 2005... THE CITY'S HOMELESS department has long had a delicate problem: where and how to house transgender clients. Now, after a public forum on the issue held in the fall, it seems the transgender community is divided over how exactly to solve it. ...

Protecting Chinatown from China.(LABOR)
January 1, 2005... WITH QUOTAS on Chinese textile and apparel products expiring in January, New York's battered garment industry is bracing for another staggering blow. But, faced with competition from the other side of the globe, a union representing textile...

Doctor on call.(Ahmed Jaaber, Arab American Association of New York)
January 1, 2005... METICULOUS AND SOFT-SPOKEN, Ahmed Jaaber is every bit a patrician local doctor. The Palestinian native sits on the boards of two mosques and an old age home. A senior attending physician at Lutheran Medical Center, he founded New York's chapter...

Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation.(INS AND OUTS)
January 1, 2005... LEAH ARCHIBALD, former executive director of Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation, has left to serve as director of marketing for the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation, an economic development and consulting...

Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation.(INS AND OUTS)
January 1, 2005... JEANNIE DILASCIO, executive director of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, is planning to retire after a decade leading the 26-year-old organization. During her tenure, DiLascio worked to improve the condition of the canal's...

JP Morgan Chase.(J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. (New York, New York) appointed Rick Lazio )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Former U.S. Representative RICK LAZIO joined JP Morgan Chase as an executive vice president, overseeing the financial giant's global government relations and public policy. Lazio served four consecutive terms in Congress, from 1992 to 2000,...

Hale House.(Randolph McLaughlin appointed)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... RANDOLPH MCLAUGHLIN, interim executive director of Hale House since April, has been named executive director of the formerly infamous child welfare agency. A civil rights lawyer known for his successful lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan in...

HIV/AIDS Services.(INS AND OUTS)
January 1, 2005... MARJORIE J. HILL, former assistant commissioner for HIV/AIDS Services at the city's Department of Health, has left to work at Gay Men's Health Crisis as director of its restructured Women's Institute. The department has started a national...

Rent wars.(controversy for the approval of renatal assistance plan)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... SERVICE PROVIDERS and advocates are calling on the mayor to withdraw a controversial new rental assistance plan submitted to the state for approval. Representatives from Partnership for the Homeless, Coalition for the Homeless and several other...

The Wal-Mart effect.(FRONTLINES)
January 1, 2005... IT SOUNDS LIKE a college radical's rant: Wal-Mart increases poverty wherever it goes. But that's what Stephan Goetz, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, suggests in an analysis of counties nationwide. In every county where a new...

Public housing's private club: Housing Authority residents demand to know how their leaders let millions in federal aid slip away.(INSIDETRACK)
January 1, 2005... THE NEWS RUMBLED like a slow train through the city's public housing developments: Roughly $7.6 million promised to residents had effectively disappeared. Outraged tenants and advocates packed a November 18 meeting, spilling out into the...

First principals: why Joel Klein is letting an elite few schools run free of the bureaucracy.
January 1, 2005... In his first few years as a high school principal, David Banks filled out so much paperwork that he heard the whir of the fax machine when he went to sleep at night. Every couple of weeks, a principals' meeting would last all day. First he'd be...

Inclusionary zoning's big moment: cities across the country are forcing developers to build affordable housing. Could New York soon join them?(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... It's already gone further than anyone thought it would. When the Bloomberg administration started talking about remaking the Greenpoint and Williamsburg waterfront into a blossoming residential district, local community groups pleaded for...

The return of MetroTech: how to ensure the sequels to Brooklyn's back-office complex will share prosperity with the neighborhoods next door.(Metropolitan Technology Center)
January 1, 2005... The meeting room of the old Board of Estimate must have been packed back on June 30, 1987. Almost 80 people turned out to speak on a massive new development intended to repel New Jersey's assaults on New York City's jobs. The Metropolitan...

Q & A: how can the Staten Island waterfront be reborn?(Susan Meeker)(Interview)
January 1, 2005... After a decade in which its population grew faster than any other county in the state, Staten Island now faces both a number of opportunities for new development and a mounting list of problems that need to be addressed. With so many hot button...

TANF taketh away: welfare reform is returning to Washington--and the working poor have the most to lose.(Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
January 1, 2005... IT'S BEEN A WHILE since welfare reform was news. When the federal law backing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) expired in 2001, the chatter about what to change petered out as legislators merely extended the legislation for a few...