City Limits articles from July 2005

City Limits archives from July 2005

The People's Mayor?(Michael Bloomberg)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... IF BEING AN IMPROVEMENT from the Giuliani era were the only criteria, Michael Bloomberg would have been anointed the People's Mayor a long time ago. Take welfare. Rather than continue with the punitive program of the past, Tracie McMillan...

City Limits wins journalism awards.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... In June, Alyssa Katz of City Limits and Abu Taher of Bangla Patrika won second place in a new Society of Professional Journalists award recognizing collaborations between the ethnic and mainstream press. They were awarded for their...

Cut his salary?(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I truly enjoyed reading your article in the May/June 2005 issue, "Social Change, Inc." It is so important in this day and age to recognize those who have made life/career decisions that affect social change. I am curious however, about your...

Balanced beams.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I read with interest your Q & A with Red Hook Developer Greg O'Connell: the Importance of Balanced Growth. I noted that he was proud that the jobs in the new Fairway would be union jobs with benefits and that that would have a multiplier effect...

The other Olympics.(FRONTLINES)(Cycle Messenger World Championships)
July 1, 2005... NEW YORKERS antsy for some international athletic competition needn't wait for the Olympic Committee's upcoming decision: This Fourth of July weekend, New York will play host to the Cycle Messenger World Championships, a grassroots-y, slightly...

Clean-up crisis.(HEALTH)(lead contamination in day care centers)
July 1, 2005... IN MARCH, the city's health department made a shocking discovery: Roughly half of city day care centers were contaminated with lead. Providers panicked. Not only were their children at risk, but the centers themselves could be shut down if the...

Safe and sound?(FRONTLINES)(abuse by foster parents)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled in May that the city can be held liable for the behavior of foster parents. The decision is based on a case that dates back 20 years, in which two kids were allegedly abused by their foster...

Siegel's Bohemian clout.(POLITICS)(Norman Siegel)
July 1, 2005... BURLESQUE DANCERS, fire-spinners and nightlife activists aren't commonly courted by politicians. But this year, bohemians citywide have at least one candidate eager for their support: Norman Siegel for Public Advocate. Taking his second...

HSBC.(INS AND OUTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... DANIEL NISSENBAUM joined HSBC as the bank's senior vice president and manager of community development. Nissenbaum brings 14 years of experience in housing finance to the job, in which he oversees the bank's community service, grant, loan and...

Downtown Alliance.(INS AND OUTS)(Trinity Church-St. Paul's Chapel )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... CARL WEISBROD, founding president of the Downtown Alliance, the largest business improvement district (BID) in the country, is leaving the organization after 10 years to join the real estate division of Trinity Church-St. Paul's Chapel as...

Citibank.(INS AND OUTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... JONATHAN SPRINGER joined Citibank in March as a relationship manager in its Community Development department. Springer cofounded the Workforce Investment Company, a national nonprofit, where he was president for the past three years. Springer...

Brennan Center for Justice.(INS AND OUTS)(Nathan Newman resigns)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... NATHAN NEWMAN, a former associate counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice, left in March to start Agenda for Justice, a new nonprofit policy research center where he will be executive director. Newman had previously served as a codirector for...

Canners' crusade.(HOMELESSNESS)(cashing in drink cans)
July 1, 2005... AFTER 21 YEARS on the streets of Manhattan, Eugene Gadsen knows everything there is to know about collecting cans and bottles. He knows which recyclables can be redeemed, which buildings have friendly supers and which city events yield the most...

Tortured souls: laying undocumented immigrants to rest.(INSIDETRACK)
July 1, 2005... FROM HIS BUSTLING TRAVEL AGENCY in Jackson Heights, Orlando Tobon is a linchpin of Queens' Colombian community. Hundreds of immigrants turn to him, whether to book the cheapest flights back home, fill out a tax return or translate documents for...

Bad medicine: New York's black market in AIDS drugs.
July 1, 2005... Carmine Passero's room in the Bronx is at the dead end of a windowless corridor that smells of bleach and cold turkey. As he hunches on the edge of his single bed, he looks gaunt and tired; one of the effects of HIV medicine is jaundice, and...

Battery Park City recharged: why the city made good on an old housing pledge.(THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?)
July 1, 2005... There was love amid the cherry blossoms of City Hall Park on April 19. Affordable housing advocates have been spending a lot of time there lately, but it was a particularly sweet success that brought them and Mayor Bloomberg together for a warm...

Beyond Bloomberg's stadium infatuation: an economic development plan for the boroughs.(THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?)(Michael Bloomberg)
July 1, 2005... Ask anyone what Mayor Bloomberg's plan is for the local economy, and the likely answer would be "sports stadiums." Between the Jets arena and the accompanying plan to redevelop Manhattan's far West Side, many New Yorkers assume that his...

Ending workfare as we know it? After eight years on welfare, Benita Andrews doubts she'll leave anytime soon. The city says it can provide enough help to prove her wrong.(THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?)
July 1, 2005... It starts before Benita Andrews even makes it home. Five o'clock finds her walking to her South Bronx apartment, a ramshackle three-family covered in aluminum siding. Her kids--nine in all--spot her from their third-floor window, and they are...

Q & A: can the South Bronx be a new beacon of growth? Local development expert Neil Pariser has watched one of New York's most notorious areas go from not to hot--and says it's only the beginning.(Interview)
July 1, 2005... ONCE A SYMBOL of all that was wrong with New York, the Bronx actually created a majority of the new private sector jobs in the city over the past three years. Much of the borough's growth is occurring in the South Bronx, which, partly with city...