City Limits articles from July 2002

City Limits archives from July 2002

Nonprofits' bottom line. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... It's a business factoid as much of this moment as Cisco's stock price was a couple of years ago: Nonprofits are doing great; better, by many measures, than for-profit enterprises. The recent report from the New York City Nonprofits Project...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2002... WAGE WAR J.W Mason's article "Living Wage Junkonomics" [June 2002] ignores the question of whether "living wage" recipients actually gain financially from higher wage laws, and seriously miseharacterizes the leading independent economic...

Williamsburg's last picture show. (Frontlines).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... NOW PLAYING AT the Commodore Theater in Williamsburg: Spider-Man. But probably not for much longer. The blockbuster movie could be the 1921 theater's last hurrah, because the owners of the art deco building are in the process of selling....

MedicAIDS: people with HIV are moving to managed care, but will health insurers buy it? (Frontlines).
July 1, 2002... AFTER THREE YEARS of negotiations and three more of logistical delays, Howard Schwartz is hopeful that his clients at Gay Men's Health Crisis will soon be in for better health care. As an expert on navigating the tangled webs of Medicaid...

Mind and copy. (Urban Legend).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AT THE AGE OF 43, Ira Minot became so incapacitated by depression he could hardly function. He needed help, and his girlfriend at the time had little sympathy. "She was an emergency room nurse, and they're tough," he recalls. "She was...

Swimming in sludge: sewage tank turns rec center, or is it the perfect pawn? (Frontlines).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... GO PLAY IN THE...sludge storage tank? That's what some Greenpoint residents hope to one day be able to say to their kids, provided they can convince their neighbors it's a good idea to convert a sewage tank near the East River into a rec...

Homes that work. (Housing).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... BUFFY FARMER HAD been living in the Brooklyn Women's Shelter for close to a year when her caseworker told her about a new housing development that would not only give her an affordable and permanent place to live, but also help her find a job....

A real estate bargain. (Homelessness).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... AS MAYOR BLOOMBERG and Governor Pataki finished up their budget negotiations this spring, a group of advocates for the homeless started lobbying for cash from next year's pot, insisting their plan will actually save the government money. A...

Banana Kelly U-turn. (Housing).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... IT'S BEEN MORE THAN a year since Banana Kelly Inc., a troubled community development group in the South Bronx, transferred management of two dozen of its buildings to a neighboring organization. At the time, many of the group's properties were...

Sacred ground: as churches make real estate part of their mission, some Harlem residents pray for relief. (Inside Track).
July 1, 2002... WHEN SHE JOINED Abyssinian Baptist Church 15 years ago, Marie Littlejohn believed in its role as a Harlem leader. Her daughter was baptized by the minister, Rev. Calvin Butts, who was also a guest at their home. That, however, was before...

Dubious benefits: as Washington works to improve welfare reform, why won't anyone admit that people on the rolls are poorer than ever?
July 1, 2002... If most Americans know anything about federal welfare reform, round two, it's that President George W. Bush wants to spend $300 million to encourage single moms to get married. Families headed by a married couple--one man and one woman, of...

The missing links; rudy left another sports legacy: a $40 million environmental mess where a golf course was supposed to be.(Mayor Rudolph Giuliani)
July 1, 2002... Just three days before the end of his term, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani let New Yorkers know that he was hard at work securing yet another monument to his legacy. On December 28, 2001, he announced that the city was negotiating with the Professional...

Beyond the Bowery: a new experiment in housing for the homeless moves in with men who want to be left alone.
July 1, 2002... Like most men interviewed for this article, he doesn't want to be identified. Suffice to say he's quick-witted and light on regrets, and bears no malice toward Matt Damon for lifting the idea for Good Will Hunting from him at the Mars Bar....

Reparation anxiety. (Intelligence the Big Idea).
July 1, 2002... "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights." --J. Paul Getty IN THE EYES OF many black Americans, the United States needs to make a fundamental acknowledgement of slavery. For more and more blacks, an apology is not...

New reports.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... They have higher incomes, spend less time on welfare, and, if female, are more likely to be married at the age of 25. Who are they? Children who grow up in the projects. According to this new study, public housing kids are better off than their...

Trained out. (Intelligence City Lit).
July 1, 2002... Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City by Joe Austin, Columbia University Press 348 pages, $24.50 I CAN STILL HEAR former MTA commissioner Dick Ravitch's voice when he opined in 1982: "I'm not an art...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. (Now Read This).
July 1, 2002... By John Taylor Gatto New Society Publishers, $11.95 "School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned," charges this former New York State (and City) teacher of the year, in this newly...

The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture. (Now Read This).
July 1, 2002... BY Bakari Kitwana, Basic Books, $24 Who could have imagined even 25 years ago that an angry musical genre dominated by African Americans would be the most popular music in the country? The cruel irony is that the dramatic rise in raps...

After the Trade Center: Rethinking New York City. (Now Read This).
July 1, 2002... Edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin Routledge, $25 On the most exhaustively scrutinized matter of the moment, most of the architects, planners, sociologists and other scholars here (including Marshall Berman, Andrew Ross and Mike...

Organizing drivers. (Intelligence Making Change).
July 1, 2002... KEVIN FITZPATRICK, a rotund, spirited cabbie with a face full of white hair--imagine a taxi-driving Santa Claus--enjoys berating the union that, at least on paper, is supposed to be organizing him. "Local 74 is like the Osama bin Laden...

The nonprofit margin. (Intelligence NYC Inc.).
July 1, 2002... WITH ALL THE MONEY the government pours into nonprofit organizations, it's hard to believe policymakers would miss an opportunity to put those dollars to work. Yet when it comes to one of the city's major economic development...